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- People are the answer, not the problem
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
2005 : Issue 23 : Published 02-Dec-2009
- The spider-web fisherman
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was
at work, born of the islanders'
relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
2005 : Issue 21 : Published 04-Nov-2009
- Money doesn't make babies happy
We are terrible at caring for the planet because we are terrible at caring for each other. And we are lousy at caring for each other because we don't seem to have any idea of where the roots of human emotional sustenance lie. We might begin to look at our obsessive love of money and power.
2005 : Issue 19 : Published 30-Sep-2009
- Winners of Eureka Street's writers awards 2009
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
2005 : Issue 0 : Published 16-Jul-2009
- Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009
Submission guidelines for the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009 are now online.
2005 : Issue 0 : Published 22-Mar-2009
- Something rotten in Islam
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
2005 : Issue 21 : Published 22-Oct-2008
- PEN's three-pronged pursuit of justice
There was good reason for keeping the message simple. We wanted our cards to get past the censors. There is a time for advocacy, and a time for simple words of support. Together they make up the 'human' and the 'rights' in human rights.
2005 : Issue 19 : Published 24-Sep-2008
- Killing Lady Bountiful
The power differential between helper and the helped is insidious. 'Lady Bountiful' wants credit for giving without thought of return, but can't help counting her sacrifices. Refugees can spot threats to their privacy and self-respect from a mile off.
2005 : Issue 17 : Published 27-Aug-2008
- SIEV X, the boat that sank
Coming closer, one sees these are paintings of drowning people, headsor bodies suspended in metallic seawater. There are 353 images, mostly children and women, for it was mostly children and women who boarded the boat.
2005 : Issue 15 : Published 30-Jul-2008
- Eureka Street/Reader's Feast awards ceremony 2008
Photos from the presentation of the inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award the Margaret Dooley
Award for Young Writers 2008 were presented by Mary Dalmau of Reader's
Feast bookstore and Tim Kroenert from Eureka Street at the opening of
the Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival on 18 July.
2005 : Issue 0 : Published 28-Jul-2008
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