CANADIANS FOR JUSTICE

Our Mission

CJPME’s mission is to enable Canadians of all backgrounds to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East, and here at home in Canada. Our Vision The premier advocacy organization for Canadians for our mission: To empower Canadians of all backgrounds to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East, and at home in Canada. The “go to” organization for politicians, policy makers, and the media on our issues Known as a credible Canadian voice in the Canadian media and government within our mission: promotion of justice, development and peace in the Middle East. A positive, valued and recognized influencer of Canadian foreign policy Developing credible and professional information resources useful to CJPME’s audience, constituency, and collaborators.

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A positive, valued and recognized influencer of Canadian media, both

• The media’s portrayal of Canadian foreign policy on the Middle East, and
• The media’s portrayal of current events and people in the region

Community Relations: A contributor to community understanding

• Emphasizing outreach to all types of other players in the community: the general public, community groups; university groups; political parties; unions; religious organizations; etc.
• A developer of mutually beneficial relations with organizations of all kinds.

A “best of breed” bi-lingual NGO in Canada

• Providing volunteers and staff with a energizing and fulfilling experience, while automating, streamlining and/or outsourcing non-core resource-consuming tasks (e.g. data-entry; internal communications; contact management; Internet presence; accounting; etc.)

 originally from:  http://www.cjpme.org/

GFM

"Since January 2010, the Gaza Freedom March has worked to implement the program set out in the Cairo Declaration through a range of initiatives, including: mobilizing international support for the Goldstone Report, supporting the Egyptian lawsuit against the Wall of Shame, delivering more than 6400 petition signatures in opposition to Israel’s admission to the OECD, organizing more delegations to Gaza, supporting a speaking tour across the U.S. that includes two young Palestinians from Gaza, building support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and most recently helping to mobilize support world-wide for the Freedom Flotilla of humanitarian ships which tried to break the blockade of Gaza in May 2010." 
originally from:   http://gazafreedommarch.org

PERMANENT ERROR

"For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: ‘For this place, we have no name’.
Their response is a reminder of the alien circumstances that are imposed on marginal communities of the world by the West’s obsession with consumption and obsolesce. This wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology.
The UN Environment Program has stated that Western countries produce around 50 million tons of digital waste every year. In Europe, only 25 percent of this type of waste is collected and effectively recycled. Much of the rest is piled in containers and shipped to developing countries, supposedly to reduce the digital divide, to create jobs and help people. In reality, the inhabitants of dumps like Agbogbloshie survive largely by burning the electronic devices to extract copper and other metals out of the plastic used in their manufacture. The electronic waste contaminates rivers and lagoons with consequences that are easily imaginable. In 2008 Green Peace took samples of the burnt soil in Agbogbloshie and found high concentrations of lead, mercury, thallium, hydrogen cyanide and PVC.

Notions of time and progress are collapsed in these photographs. There are elements in the images that fast-forward us to an apocalyptic end of the world as we know it, yet the alchemy on this site and the strolling cows recall a pastoral existence that rewinds our minds to a medieval setting. The cycles of history and the lifespan of our technology are both clearly apparent in this cemetery of artifacts from the industrialised world. We are also reminded of the fragility of the information and stories that were stored in the computers which are now just black smoke and melted plastic."


originally from:   www.pieterhugo.com