Penelope Vos

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  Penelope signed the petition | over 1 year ago

  Protect Communities from Toxic Coal Ash
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  Penelope signed the petition | over 1 year ago

  Hey Glenn Beck: Stop Spreading Lies About Global Warming
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  Penelope signed the petition | over 1 year ago

  Demand Republican Congressional Candidate Apologize for Suggesting We Microchip "Illegals"
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  Penelope commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Live from CGI: Raising Questions & Introducing the Global Majority

  Yes, the global majority deserves its name!

  
  

  I have often needed this phrase in my work of trying to give the global majority a voice, and access to the world's knowledge resources, that they can afford.

  
  

  Esperanto is the world's most user-friendly language and provides all of the functions of intercultural communication for a fraction of the time and money that National languages take to learn.

  
  

  Promoting Esperanto as the first foreign language in English-speaking primary schools not only gives our children the best outcomes in terms of confidence and linguistic flexibility but also prepares them to hear and be heard by the Global Majority.

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  Penelope commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  When Do We Call It "Gendercide"?

  Imagine if those women could talk to all of us, if we could speak for each of them, if we could be friends...it wouldn't solve the whole problem but it would help.

  
  

  In spite of being overworked, rarely paid and minimally educated, they can learn Esperanto from a few cents worth of paper and a dozen lessons and some practice. I've talked to refugees in West Africa who taught themselves in this way.

  
  

  But it needs for the fortunate to make the effort too, or it doesn't help. Learning Esperanto will take you about 12 hours of lessons and a hundred hours of practice and you will be playing your part in meeting the world's poor women halfway.

  
  

  This is one good free learning site http://www.kurso.com.br/bazo/index.php?en

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  Penelope commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Campus Entrepreneurship Soars

  Here's an invitation to spread the word about your Social Enterprise and all of its projects and partners. Feel free to put it on your website, or newsletters, and see who rises to the challenge:
  
  Who comes to your mind as someone who helped others help better?
  
  “Being The Change: Heroes Who Helped Us Help More” will be an anthology of inspiring stories each based on a pivotal event in the life of a special person, whose gift to humanity has been to equip others to  help more effectively.
  
  Each story will followed by a postscript about the impact of the event, or its hero, from that time to the present. It may include a website reference to allow inspired readers to participate in the change, now and into in future.
  
  You are warmly invited to contribute the story of your own hero for selection. Contributors, and the organizations they nominate, will be entitled to pre-order as many lots of 50 books as they wish, for the price of printing, and sell them at any price they choose to profit their cause. Your message will spread further still, through the orders and sales of other organizations.
  
  Story style guidelines are available from the publisher’s website at www.mondeto.com. Selection will begin on April 30th, 2009.
  
  Sincerely,
  Penny Vos