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lmdo made a new marketplace entry: Communications Opportunities – COP18 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Speak Your Mind is a journalism development group that believes in communicating the crisis whilst advocating the solutions. We are about disrupting the media cycle on the issues that matter. Join us a contributor in Doha, Qatar for COP18 where you will gain first hand experience of the UN climate change negotiations and a couple [...]
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lmdo wrote a new blog post: The Real Rio: They Don’t Care About Us 11 months ago · View
One of Michael Jackson’s most famous songs was the 1995 “They Don’t Care About Us”. The music video became a sensation featuring panoramic shots set in Rio de Janeiro and importantly, of him dancing within the community of favela Santa Marta. I had the privilege of visiting this “cominidade” recently, however I wonder if MJ’s words speak more truth today than [...]
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lmdo wrote a new blog post: Governments Happy with the Future We Want 11 months ago · View
Rio+20 has ended with world leaders approving the “Future We Want” declaration. The document, which came under intense criticism from civil society and some nations, was approved by over 100 heads of state and high level ministers. However civil society was scathing. “Governments have failed to produce the historic deal we need to address the perfect storm of crises: [...] -
lmdo wrote a new blog post: Copenhagen - Haven of Hope 3 years, 5 months ago · View
Hi AllApologies for not having posted any blogs however, as you can all imagine, things in Copenhagen have been a tad insane to say at the least.Below are the links to three blogs/articles that I have recently wrote though.Apologies for short ‘blog’ [...] -
lmdo wrote a new blog post: Lights, camera, ACTION! 3 years, 5 months ago · View
Copenhagen is currently buzzing with the number of planned and ad hoc actions or protests occurring, both within and outside of the Bella Centre. Many suspect that the COP15 will be the next WTO Seattle . Recent changes in Danish law may hamper this manifestation though. Whilst the laws of Denmark still obviously still apply within the Bella Centre, delegates [...] -
lmdo wrote a new blog post: The Swarming of Youth in Copenhagen 3 years, 5 months ago · View
Imagine the Global Youth Summit. Only instead of sixty people there are at least five hundred. And instead of a room full of people from different areas of activism, picture a room full of people who were all environmentalists in their own way. This, ladies and gentlemen, was the Fifth Conference of Youth (COY). The COY serves [...]
