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Day 3 refugee camp, France
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Guest Post from Colette Ní Eachtarn (a friend who doesn’t have a blog… yet. Her words need to be heard) ————————————————————– Day 3 on the ground in ‘The Jungle‘, Calais, France. An emotional day today for the whole team. From the minute we stepped into the camp it seems. Again the medical team were out…
If the Spill Was in my Homeplace
ByMiriam
Check this out, the map on this website If It Was My Home shows how the BP oil spill would look if it was in your homeplace. It is a great way to put it into perspective, try it out for yourself. Click on the link above, input your location and the map will show…
In The Clouds
ByMiriam
Today we are fog bound, we can only see about 100 metres. It’s a dense, wet fog, the kind that stills sounds and feels really cold. We even lit a fire this morning and that very rarely needs to happen, especially in October. This week we had a beautiful, hot, sunny day. Right from sun-rise…
What Year Is This?
ByMiriam
Is this really 2008? you wouldn’t think so if you read this sad and horrifying article about the current and past treatment of Aboriginal people by the police and prison authorities in Queensland Australia. Perhaps the clue is in the name “queens”land, it is not unusual for ill-treatment and injustice to follow the colonial rule,…
Spinning in the Wind
ByMiriam
I spend today working to organise a workshop space in a building in a local town where we are going to start teaching people to build their own wind turbines. We set up workbenches and swept and cleaned in preparation for the workshops which will start on Thursday next. We are part way through building…