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An online journal for sharing good stuff I've come across, along with projects I'm working on, in the hope that you might like them too or at least find them interesting.

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Free & Equal advances gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights by seeding, supporting and linking sexuality rights defenders and their organizations.

 

The Global Campaign for Education  is an international coalition of nongovernment development and children’s rights organisations and education unions.

In the UK the Campaign works to increase community awareness of the state of education internationally and generate the political will necessary to ensure the UK plays an active and effective part in efforts to secure education for all.

 

I'm a trustee of Read: The Reading Agency, whose mission is to inspire more people to read more. Read works with public libraries, publishers, unions, businesses and broadcasters to support reading.

Read's Big Book Share supports prisoners choose a book and then make a recording of themselves reading it, which is then given to the prisoner’s children. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.

 

  • Screen Culture

    Resources and organisations using film to promote action and dialogue.
    • Media Rights
      MediaRights, a nonprofit organization, that helps media makers and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.
    • Media that Matters Film Festival
      An on-line short documentary film festival. The 16 winners from the 2004 festival are all worth watching.
    • Documentary Filmmakers Group
      The DFG promotes contemporary documentary and provides training and support to film makers.
    • Spanner Films
      Spanner Films is a tiny independent documentary film company, founded in 1997 and based in London. They produced McLibel and Drowned Out.
    • Witness
      Witness uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
    • Participant Productions
      Participant exists to tell compelling, entertaining stories that also create awareness of the real issues that shape our lives. They use feature film, documentary and other media to entertain, inform and prompt action.
    • Participate
      The piblic facing website of Participant Productions, participate.net has information, discussion and ideas for actions in areas related to each of their movies.
    • One World International Human RIghts Documentary Film festival
      The One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival features documentaries that explore, question, and challenge the complexities of the times in which we live.