1. NO THREAT. Iran has not attacked any country in more than 200 years. Its military spending per capita is among the lowest in the region. The regime has allowed inspections and agreed to negotiate with the West on all issues. Current Western rhetoric recalls the Iraq war, when a threat was fabricated to justify an attack.

2. DOUBLE STANDARDS. Many of the West's allies, including Israel, have nuclear weapons. There is no evidence that Iran is developing them, as last year's IAEA report made clear. Iran, unlike Israel and Pakistan, is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which it…

A new global treaty could allow corporations to police everything that we do on the Internet. Last week 3 million of us successfully pushed back the US censorship bills -- if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat to all of us: 

Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! -- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to…

As part of the  2011 "Be Veg" Toronto subway ad campaign, 1,000 "Why love one but eat the other?" ads running on Toronto subways have been asking Canadians to "be veg" and riders are responding.

This provocative ad series launched by a grassroots group draws attention to the similarities between the animals we call "family" and the animals we call "dinner" and highlights the shocking cruelty faced by animals raised for food in Canada.

  This video can be found at YouTube

It's now exactly a year since Oriel Dafydd Hardy closed its doors, but they've still been busy bees.

The core members of the Oriel Dafydd Hardy team, made up of young artists, exhibitors and helpers have reinvented themselves as a young co-operative called Bocs.  This year, with help from Dafydd Hardy's staff and other supporters, Bocs have been working towards setting up a new arts centre in Caernarfon that will provide gallery space, artists' studios, workshop space and arts reference centre.

They're still looking for funding to carry out refurbishment and other costs for equipment and materials, but the good news is that they can…

   
January 2012 enews  
Images of Haiti

 Paintings and Metal Sculptures by Haitian Artists.  Trigonos: 21st to 27th January

This exhibition of original paintings and sculpture is to celebrate the extraordinary creativity, skill and resilience of the people of Haiti and is the first time it has been shown in Britain.

The paintings and sculptures were bought from the artists and street traders of Port-au-Prince in the weeks following the devastating earthquake of January 2010 by Robin Aherne, an emergency relief…

Snowdonia National Park is using Twitter to give people weather information and walking advice.

A new information service using Twitter has been launched aimed at keeping walkers safe in Snowdonia.

The national park is using the social media site to give people weather information and walking advice before they take to the mountains.

The service - @safesnowdonia in English and @eryridiogel in Welsh - will also highlight good mountaineering examples.

Llanberis Rescue Team said it regularly saved walkers who had failed to check the weather forecast.

"This new service will be a valuable service to everyone who intends…

Avaaz is on fire, at 10.5 million people and rising fast. But we're also deepening our activism -- and with the combination of depth and huge numbers, we're winning, over and over again. Scroll down to see some great examples from the last several weeks.

We're not just effectively delivering petitions, we're running safe houses and smuggling routes to protect democratic movements, challenging corporations by bringing lawsuits or calling all their shareholders, donating millions to equip human rights defenders with the latest technology, and powerfully delivering the voices of our community direct and in person to presidents, billionaires, ambassadors and cabinet ministers.

It's working -- scroll down to…