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TIG Magazine #4 is under construction
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TakingITGlobal will be publishing a fourth TIG Magazine this summer, in time for the World Youth Congress this August in Québec City. This TIG Magazine (we will be giving it a better name soon!) will be focused on the two themes of our recent Youth Voices Project, which were: 'Climate Change' and 'Culture & Identity'.

Currently the Youth Voices Project has two contest collections in our Global Gallery where TIG members have been submitting artwork related to the themes. Some of this artwork will be included in the magazine and published! But we are also looking for writing submissions for the magazine.

The basic goal of the fourth TIG Magazine is to create a really cool print & online magazine that shows the power of the creative youth perspective on climate and cultural issues. We are looking for writing that illustrates the role of youth as key stakeholders in issues that affect them like 'climate change', 'cultural & identity' and related topics [cultural conflict, cultural dialogue, celebrating your culture, explaining your culture, pollution, water scarcity, environmental activism, etc.] and shows how powerful and important youth voices are. Submissions can be creative writing (poetry, stories) or more fact/opinion based articles.

Interested in submitting some writing? If you have recently (within the last year) had an article published in Panorama that you think should be considered, please send the: Title, Article ID # (this is visible in the URL), Article Type and your name to this e-mail address: melanie@takingitglobal.org. Or if you are interested in submitting something especially for the magazine, that you have not already had published anywhere else, please send your submission to the same address: melanie@takingitglobal.org, and it will be considered for inclusion.

We need all writing submissions submitted to us by the 22nd of May. If you are interested in contributing a visual submission, you also have until the 22nd of May to contribute either to the 'Youth Voices on Climate Change' or the 'Youth Voices on Culture & Identity' Contest in the Global Gallery.

May 1, 2008 | 2:49 PM Comments  1 comments



What is going on in Zimbabwe?
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I read an article in Canada's Globe and Mail two days ago that really disturbed me. Here are some choice quotes:

'... the youth kicks Ms. Gomba in the face and blood starts to ooze from her nose. "That is what you get for trying to sneak the MDC through the backdoor," she snarls. Then they begin to use the whips. At first Ms. Gomba cries out; in response, the youths hit her harder.'

'...the noise as the whips hit her body is the only sound in the room...'

'...Outside the door, she found a knot of the youth militia ... "They said I was an MDC prostitute because I attended their rally here," ... "Then one of the youth flicked a lit matchstick on to the roof of my thatched hut." ... she lost everything she owned.'

'In Mutoko, 160 kilometres to the north of Harare, 20 houses were burned last weekend. Five were torched in Murehwa, 80 kilometres north, on Sunday night.'

I don't claim to be any expert on Zimbabwe's history or it's politics, or even to know that much beyond the basics. This article was based on reports from a Globe and Mail correspondent who was able to sneak into the meetings where, apparently, opposition supporters (or merely those who were supporting a fair election) are being violently beaten and threatened. The first thing I thought after reading it was - is there anything I can do about this? And I couldn't answer that question.

At this point I don't think it matters whether or not Mugabe technically won or lost, any leader that allows these kind of actions is not leading his/her people, they're just terrifying them.

April 18, 2008 | 10:45 AM Comments  0 comments



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