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Kenya Communications Intern, Grace Wanene, shares what it was like to take part in a Green Belt Movement protest against illegal land grabbing in Nairobi.

Land grabbing in India takes many forms including expansion of plantation monoculture for carbon sequestration.

Patrick has worked on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's «arms for timber» trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness's work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics.

Anton Pinschoff dew attention to land grabbing in East European countries.

Some commented on events involving collective action, such as volatile demonstrations over government land grabs in Fujian province.

Farmers across Australia are mobilising and fighting back against what one has described as the biggest land grab in Australian history.

Some 770,000 people have been affected by land grabs in Cambodia since 2000

Just this week, a brief was filed at the International Criminal Court noting that over the past 14 years some 770,000 people have been adversely affected by land grabs in the country and nearly 150,000 forcibly transferred from the capital.

They are post militarised environments and infrastructure, and a reminder still of what was a sustained military land grab in the 20th century, when over 371,000 hectares of the British landmass was reserved and appropriated for military use

He is great on the merits of emerging sharing economy models, new public transport systems and town planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.

(08/30/2010) The European Union's renewable fuels target is driving land grabs in Africa that threaten the environment and local communities, claims a new report from Friends of the Earth (FOE).

Women's Earth Alliance is an Earth Island Institute project that «stands in solidarity with the grassroots struggles of local communities and to support the bold organizing efforts of women, who are the rising to address challenges of food security, climate change and land grabs in their communities.»

But first, Derrick Harris and I discuss Amazon's official entry into mobile app development platform a la Parse, which will launch (hopefully) on Thursday; the land grab in cloud storage gateways, and why it's sort of great that Yahoo (s yahoo) Flickr has released a ginormous data set from all those flickr photos and videos for analysis by data scientists or just people who want to experiment with ginormous data sets.

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If China is jamming US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace at sea, it serve as yet another sign that Beijing may disregard international law and norms to defend its South China Sea land grab.

Fox's Snatched, starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn as a mother and daughter grabbed $ 17.5 million from 3,501 theaters, landing it in second overall.

Once you have found the best DKI headline and supporting description strategy to grab the attention of as many prospects as possible and maximize qualified traffic to your landing pages, it's time to replicate this strategy in each of the ad group's landing pages in order to maximize conversion rates on that traffic.

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

Heidi Shey, a senior analyst at Forrester who studies the cyber insurance space, says insurers are in an excited «land - grab» state, gobbling up as many customers as they can because insurers believe most businesses will not file a claim, or there could be a cyber event that doesn't get covered due to an exemption, such as human error, credit card fraud, or email fraud.

Reports suggest Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar and other African countries are in the midst of a colonial - style land grab by foreign investors.

«It's an all - out land grab and will continue to be in perpetuity,» acknowledges Bob Davis, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners.

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold minIn an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold minin a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold mine.

With the successful launch and landing of New Shepard, Blue Origin has not only grabbed the attention of space enthusiasts and the entire world, it has also finally made a mark in the space industry.

Factom is using the blockchain to build a permanent and secure land title record in Honduras, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, where land - grabbing and corruption are rife.

A race to grab land in the Permian has been the main driver of a surge of deals in the energy patch and the industry's main source of good news.

A «Lord of the Rings» reference in several crypto projects illustrates a coming land grab on the finite amount of «cool» names.

This month, in a new report, GRAIN found that investment in foreign land holdings, purchases that the group calls «land grabs,» remains prevalent around the world.

There is no «sharia law» that neccesiates death except if the person has killed somebody or is involved in mischeif on land (like grabbing someone else's land, looting, instigating riots and wars or torturing people etc).

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

President of Berom Youth Movement, Choji Chuwang, told a local newspaper: «As we gleefully wallow in the false sense of peace on the Plateau, know it today that a deliberate economic terrorism and land - grabbing strategy is being launched on Christians of Riyom and Barkin Ladi on a daily basis with the sole aim of making them poor, weak and destitute in their own land.»

Muslims in Nigeria have launched a «deliberate economic terrorism and land - grabbing strategy» against Christians, according to Christian leaders in the West African country.

It's a narrative rejected by the 2.5 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and who say that the scores of settlements like Shilo deny the viability of a future Palestinian state and constitute an Israeli land grab.

And saying thank you to people who graciously invite u in their home is proper manners, not commit war, genocide & the most infamous land grab ever.

not to mention the ongoing land grab and the attendant turmoil and upheaval in the Middle East because of the Chosen People belief, that's all for nothing / a misconception too?

A new report exposes the devastating consequences of land grabs for indigenous communities in Preah Vihear province, in northern Cambodia.

A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

Durant dove for a ball near the scorer's table and landed awkwardly on his wrist, immediately grabbing it while in obvious discomfort.

After grabbing everyone's attention by knocking off Kansas in Lawrence and edging West Virginia when the Mountaineers were ranked No. 2, the Red Raiders came back to Earth down the stretch with a four - game losing streak to land a No. 3 seed and a date with 2016 tournament darlings Stephen F. Austin.

All of these squads are still capable of grabbing a top seed come Playoff time, but they must be careful as a couple losses down the stretch could land them in dicey territory.

Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian hospitals, censorship of the entire populace with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).

As the birds landed, Sam grabbed the first one, took off the countermark and dropped it in the clock He did this with a second bird that happened to be Phil's.

Whitney has now landed Ginnelly until January after the 19 - year - old winger grabbed the headlines with his late winner in the win at Bolton in what was his second outing with the first team.

In Massachusetts, about 25 percent of land is protected and 22 percent is developed, which means the other 53 percent is still up for grabs or will be at some point in the futurIn Massachusetts, about 25 percent of land is protected and 22 percent is developed, which means the other 53 percent is still up for grabs or will be at some point in the futurin the future.

A group of Cary residents, incensed by what they call a land grab by neighboring Lake in the Hills, say they will ask the Cary Park District to condemn property for a park to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit.

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

While you may not always have a choice, try to travel at off - peak times or days so you'll have more space (and fewer other passengers to worry about); arrive early enough to get through check - in and security screening without sprinting to the gate (remember, you'll have to take your baby out of her stroller and carry her through the checkpoint) but not so early that she gets restless even before boarding; always preboard if you can so you can grab premium space in the overhead compartment and get your baby situated without a crowd waiting impatiently in the aisle behind you; time feedings to coincide with takeoffs and landings (If you're still nursing, offer the breast; if not, offer a pacifier or sippy cup to minimize baby's ear pressure); and bring plenty of drinks, snacks, and entertainment.

And what if new forms of mass occupations develop — around corporate «land grabs» for example — where thousands of poor people stay in protracted protest and a political standoff without sufficient health care and food.

Cuomo is pushing a late plan to be included in the state budget that would potentially allow the state to grab land around Penn Station for development.

Is it also true, all members in Kwabena Boateng Aidoo entourage to Dubai were each rewarded with brand new V8 Land cruisers, with the ace broadcaster allegedly, grabbing an extra brand new luxurious saloon car for his wife?

The DEC's complicity in mineral lease fraud is well known to us rural dwellers who have experienced the DEC / Chesapeake Energy land grab of 2006 - 2008.

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