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Recent newsletters, blogs

BODHI TIMES 59: (April, 2023) Below - also as the "scribd" document.
topics:
Projects
UN Commission on the Status of Women
Ambedkar International Mission Australia: casteism in Australia
From the Medical Director's Desk
BODHI Australia AGM 2023

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BODHI TIMES 58:
Trailoky Baudha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana (TBMSG); Bahujan Hitay Pune Project (BHPP) and removal of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) Status
A bit more about Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in India
Aryaloka Computer Education (a program of the Aryaloka Education Society)
Supporting young women achieve academic and career success
Aryaloka Education Society COVID-19 Emergency Food Relief
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BODHI TIMES 57:
The pandemic in India
The origin of the pandemic
BODHI's response to the pandemic in India
Explaining the crisis in India and the world
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BODHI TIMES 56:
COVID-19 emergency relief provided by the Aryaloka Education Society, Nagpur, India
The Tara Report: BODHI's focus on gender equity for women and girls
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BODHI TIMES 55:
Climate change and its risks to people in the global South
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BODHI TIMES 54:
Our 30th anniversary
Karunadeepa's tour
BODHI and human rights
Violence against women in Hondura

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BODHI TIMES 53
Sakyadhita Conference, Blue Mountains, Australia
Precarious living in Patna, and a valuable research project
Is climate change a risk to civilization?
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BODHI TIMES 52
The crisis of displacement: long predicted, now reality
Statement on the Rohingya on our website
BODHI Times 51, January, 2018; is not in the usual newsletter format, but a collection of links to recent articles and publications. See below

Project updates: see Aryaloka Education Society, Moanoghar and news from Pune


Statement on the Rohingya (IN PROGRESS)

2017: looking back

Best wishes for 2018 to all, Colin Butler

Global change musings, 2017 (selected posts from Colin's blog; some may be of interest to some of you)

Buddhist jottings


Toward Buddhist Economics, Building on E.F. Schumacher
The deserving poor, renunciates and Buddhism in the West

Planetary health: human carrying capacity, demography and our dangers as a civilisation

Reflections on human carrying capacity
Planetary health, civil disobedience and the age of hubris
When do we call "peak civilization"?
Good intentions on the deck of the Human Titanic
Limits to growth, Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health: history and future
Consuming the planet: reasons to be hopeful
Inequality and conflict
Woolly thinking on migration, aid and our common future
Increasing unease on Spaceship Earth
A Centre for Human Survival at the Australian National University
The Sustainable Development Goals: leading to a "global Brexit"?
Health workers and the tragedy of Syria: rejected by the Lancet
Enhancing the ‘glue’ that slows migration
Demography, carrying capacity and entrapment
Our most fearsome predator
South Sudan and demographic entrapment: a catastrophe that could have been eased if not fully avoided
Regional overload, planetary health and population displacement
Limits to co-operation and two neoliberal fallacies
"Effective altruism" and oppression in the dark heart of Africa

Other environmental health (including climate change and infectious diseases)

Air pollution, climate change and health in Australia
Health and climate change: an appeal for a clearer effect classification
Portugal, Bangladesh, climate change, governance and disasters: compare and contrast
Sloppy science: the global burden of deaths from pesticides
Spanish flu anxiety: exaggerated?

Politics and censorship

Human rights and the UN: censorship and other forms of control
Biodiversity, politics and corruption in South East Asia: the invisible cage
Climate change and activism: time for protests to rival those against the Vietnam war
Earth poison diary 2017: the South China Sea
Science and freedom: challenging the "Professor watchlist"

Journal


Bangkok: a precarious lizard, scarcely any stars
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BODHI Times number 50 (2017) was unusually long (19 pages) and has the following stories, plus a few fillers and many images. Its contents include:
 
1: Aryaloka Education Society, Nagpur, India – an evolving project
2. Editor’s notes and table of contents
3. Thank yous and “boiler plate”
4. President’s report: "That which unites us"
5: Project updates: Hadapsar, Pune (India) creche report 2016
6. Project updates: Moanoghar (Bangladesh) link
7. Project updates: SNEHA (Arunachal Pradesh, India) link
8. From the medical director’s desk: "A sorcerer out of control? Inequality, President Trump, Brexit and reasons for hope"
9. Remembering: "Halfdan Mahler and the warm decade for social justice" link
10. Remembering: "Abdus Salam: the first Muslim Nobel Laureate" link
11. The caste system: not just in South Asia link
12. From our advisors: Shelley Anderson - Engaged Buddhism link
13. From our advisors: Solomon Benatar - Poverty eradication: not as easy as some think link
14. "BODHI, Buddhism and social justice" link (see bottom of page)
Banner image: Tasmanian mountain berries in the ice; photo Charles Chadwick with permission.