TW Newsletter Number 18 - August 2010
Welcome to the August 2010 Treasures of Wonderment Newsletter, an online magazine promoting positive change through creative living.
In this issue:
GIVE US A HAND, PLEASE!
Tunisia - Rached Trimèche, a Tunisian decides to go on a crusade against 50 million bottles of plastic! "A project for the environment: five million bottles to recycle" is the name of this environmental project that saw light in January 2010 at Ben Arous and has expanded throughout the entire country of Tunisia. Read more... [French version available]
WE WANT TO CONNECT
5 questions asked to Hedgebrook alumna Ruth Forman, Poet, Novelist and Screenwriter. How do you describe yourself as a writer? How did you discover poetry? What is the special power of poetry? What are you working on now? Are there themes that you keep coming back to as a writer? Read more...
GROW FOR ADVERSITY
In Iran, shackling the Bahai torchbearers by Roxana Saberi. For several weeks last year, I shared a cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two leaders of Iran's minority Bahai faith. I came to see them as my sisters, women whose only crimes were to peacefully practice their religion and resist pressure from their captors to compromise their principles. Read more...
MUSIC BRIGHTENS SPIRITS
While on our journey of recording and filming musicians in Brazil, someone told us that all we needed to do was "shake a tree, and musicians would fall out like fruit." That couldn't have been more true. It was one of our last days in Salvador da Bahia when we discovered this band, Sangue Brasileiro. Read more...
SAY IT IN FLOWERS AND COLORS
Hundreds horticulturists take part in this fourteenth magnificent Flower Carpet displayed on the Market Square in the heart of Brussels, Belgium. This summer, the magnificent design of its Flower Carpet has drawn inspiration from 18th century French patterns. And yet, it was the armies of Louis XIV that had bombed the city in 1695, destroying 5,000 houses! Read more...
WE MUST SPEAK UP!
Iran is attempting to decapitate its Bahá'í community by Cherie Blair. When a mother of two can be sentenced to death by stoning on the basis of a disputed confession of adultery and without proper legal representation, there is little reason for faith in the fairness or mercy of Iran's judicial system. But as in the appalling case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 20-year jail sentences just handed out to seven Bahá'í leaders must provoke an international outcry in the hope that the Iranian government can be shamed into thinking again. Read more... [French version available]
TELL THE WORLD HOW YOU FEEL
Carla Sarkozy urges clemency for Iranian sentenced to stoning. French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy published a letter Sakineh Ashtiani today in three national media outlets supporting an Iranian mother sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery. [French version available] Read more...
SUPPORT HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for human beings. "Better acceptance of humanitarian work by state and non-state actors alike is desperately needed. The vast majority of aid workers come from the countries in which they work. Preventing them from doing their work harms no-one more than the most vulnerable. Today is a good time for a renewed commitment to humanitarian principles by all concerned." (See below, a film shot in over 40 countries) Read more....
PURE CACAO GOOD FOR YOUR HEART
What happens when a small town, Montana woman decides to jump, without a net, into a new life in tropical paradise and a foreign world of unknown parameters? It’s surprising, it’s scary and it’s a whole lot of fun! This time Lisa takes us into the making of pure chocolate on the South Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, Central America. Cacao is Spanish for cocoa. It grows on a tree, which bears a fruit containing seeds that look similar to coffee beans. That’s where chocolate comes from. Read more...
PHOTO CONTEST: "Show The Spirit"
This contest is open to all citizens of the world between 9 and 100 years old. Please enter only one of your best photos and explain. Win Putumayo World Music CDs. Your photos will be published on TW with your Essay. Read more...
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The "Seven Martyrs of Tehran, 1850" by artist, Ivan Lloyd. Limited Edition.
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