This is Friends of the Earth Intertnational: We are the world’s largest grassroots environmental network. We campaign on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues. This is Friends of the Earth Middle East: Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the p...

Well over 200 people crammed in to the Brighton Friends Meeting House last Thursday to attend Britain’s biggest local anti-cuts group launch that has been reported so far. The meeting heard from Chris Baugh Assistant General Secretary of the PCS, Economist Andy Kilmister, Brighton and Hove Unison Chair Andy Richards and Umit Ozturk of the Mediterranean

Don't situations like these past few days really sort out who your real friends are and who the fair weather friends are? You also find out those whom you thought were friends but turned out to be enemies, through automatic assumptions about you and by the little snide asides by email to third parties. To those true friends - thank you so much. You possibly think that your words of support ar...

I suppose if I was a really serious political blogger I wouldn’t link to stories like this: The likely cause was eventually established – he had apparently been drinking with friends, and had passed out. His friends had decided it...

Could someone go and get that economic cluebat please and apply it firmly to Friends of the Earth? Ambitious targets to increase the amount of rubbish recycled in the UK could help create more than 50,000 jobs, a report suggested today. The study by Friends of the Earth said 51,400 jobs could be created if 70% of

Obama's team sent out this message to supporters last night. Its a really innovative use of advocacy in Facebook networks Dear friends, Tuesday is the most important election of our lifetimes. Let's make sure everyone on Facebook gets to the polls on election day by making sure our friends do, and that their friends do, and their friends, and their friends...you get the idea. Donate your...

From latest UNISON bulletin. Constitutional matters – National Shop Stewards’ Network Some UNISON branches may have been notified of a national conference taking place on 27 June 2009. UNISON is not affiliated to the convening organisation - which has interfered repeatedly in internal UNISON matters. UNISON rules & the Democracy in UNISON guidelines make clear that support should b...

This year you can send virtual Christmas greetings to your work colleagues and friends using the video egreeting card from UNISON. The ‘meet the UNISON penguin’ video comes with the message that...

Two female friends who were ordered by the education watchdog Ofsted to stop looking after each others' children are serving police officers it has emerged.

Troutie's avatar Tom Paine writes of real friendships and online friendships. We certainly need a way in English to distinguish real friends from "blog friends," "Facebook friends," "LinkedIn" or "Second Life" friends. While this holds water, especially in Second Life where nothing is as it seems, I do think that blog friendships do not always have to end in grief. Through unfortunate circums...