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Number 242, March 2002
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Andy Sennitt
With attention focusing once again on Iraq, it’s an opportune moment to take a fresh look at the flow of information into and out of the country.
Nepal
After the Maoist (government declared terrorist) attack on the Royal Nepalese Army Barracks in Dang (mid western part of Nepal) the government of Nepal announced a State of Emergency throughout the Kingdom. The suspension of people’s rights includes press freedom.
Mr. Lwin and Mr. Sibanda’s theses presented
On the 20th February 2002, on behalf of WACC I attended the public presentation of the theses of Mr. Mya Min Lwin and Mr. Useni Sibanda, two of the scholars financially supported by WACC through the Training Assistance Programme (TAP) during 2001.
David Adams, Dean of Communication, introduced the post-graduate students in Communication at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS).
Coming from the four corners of the Capital City, hundred of thousands of people silently gathered on the Antananarivo Square. As they have been doing from the past few weeks they have gathered to show their support for the presidential candidate Mar Ravalomanana.
Sean Hawkey
Advertising is in some way an elastic gas, diffuse, perceptible to all our organs... But we have not been aware enough of its beauty, latent, profound, scattered, spontaneous... the first domain of Advertising was the street... Now it surrounds us, envelops us, it is intimately mingled with our every step, in our activities, in our relaxation, and its “atmospheric pressure” is so necessary to us that we no longer feel it. —Louis Cheronnet, 1927
The Assembly took place at the John Knox Centre following a seminar on 1 March 2002 ‘Virtual realities in Europe: Challenges for Christian communicators’. Talks were given by Cees J. Hamelink of the Free University of Amsterdam and Isabelle Graesslé of the Protestant Church of Geneva. There was also a panel of practitioners and a showing of the film Chico, which received the John Templeton European Film Award for 2001.
In acnowledgement of much appreciated and valid comments on the relevance of Action’s internet links column owing to the digital divide, this month it is replaced with Luddite Links (the original luddites were artisans that rebelled against new technology in industrialising Britain during the early 1800s).
[segment of an] interview with a Luddite