Just Focus

Archive for December, 2006

MĀORI LANGUAGE DECLINE AND REVITALISATION

For all people, language forms an important part of culture, and plays a crucial role in daily life as a means of effective communication.

Newsletter 07 Dec 06

This will be the last fortnightly newsletter of the year as the JF staff go off on their holidays… (yay!) And Lena, who has been volunteering with us for nearly six months, left Aotearoa last week and is on her way home…

THE CONFUSION BETWEEN SEXUALITY AND LIBERATION

Hand in hand with celebrity worship and the “dumb is cute” motto for women is a sensation identified as “raunch culture”.

WRITE US AN ARTICLE!

Find out what sex and hamburgers have to do with writing articles for Just Focus… Read the Article Writing Guidelines and give it a whirl…

BLOG FROM 16CCEM YOUTH FORUM: PART 2

The conference got going at a quick pace, we spent all day on the Sunday (first day) in conference sessions, hearing from different speakers and having discussions on different issues.

OXFAM STARBUCKS CAMPAIGN ACTIONS

Over 85,000 people have now faxed, phoned or written to Starbucks, asking them to sign a voluntary licensing agreement recognising Ethiopia’s rightful ownership of its coffee names - potentially increasing income for the country’s coffee industry by an estimated NZ$132 million a year.But Starbucks is ignoring concerns and still refusing to sign the agreement and […]

BLOG FROM 16CCEM YOUTH FORUM

Youth worker Kevin Grimwood is in Cape Town, South Africa attending the 16 th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (16CCEM) Youth Forum.

I AM A MUSLIM

What is Islam? Three NZ teenagers talk about their life in a largely agnostic/Christian country.

RADICAL YOUTH HUI - JAN 07

Radical Youth Auckland are organising a national youth hui in January 2007 to
learn new skills, have fun and find out what everyone else is up to.

OXFAM NYE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Oxfam has teamed up with Rhythm & Vines Festival to provide volunteer staff at the festival this New Year’s Eve in Gisborne. If you want to cap off the year feeling good about yourself then volunteer for Oxfam at Rhythm & Vines and help overcome poverty and injustice.

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