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- President Barack Obama speaks at green manufacturer and former Maytag plant, Trinity Structural Towers, in Newton, Iowa. It being Earth Day, President Obama discusses the work ahead to create green jobs and to project the environment. Obama talks about his administration's energy plan and encourages listeners to help make the change by keeping their tires inflated and using energy-efficient light bulbs.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Walter Campbell, former Regional Director for the Allied Industrial Workers (AIW) Region 7 in west Michigan and former Secretary-Treasurer of the Michigan State AFL-CIO, talks about the beginnings of the United Way, a coalition of charitable organizations pooling their efforts in fundraising and support. Campbell describes how community fund raising began in cities in Michigan and how labor unions became involved in the 1930s and 1940s. Campbell says that in 1947 Walter Reuther and Henry Ford II cooperated to create the United Way of Michigan which served to streamline giving and emphasized the positive role unions can play in their communities. He also talks about his work life and his involvement in organized labor. Campbell is interviewed by John Revitte, Michigan State University professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
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- 1983-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan State University Professor Sara Fingal (Lyman Briggs College) moderates, "The Flint Water Crisis: A Panel Discussion." Panelists include Dr. Susan Masten, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MSU, Bishop Bernadel Jefferson, of the Faith Deliverance Center Church and the Democratic Defense League of Flint, MI, Jennifer Carrera, professor of Sociology and Environmental Science at MSU, and Melissa Mays, founder of "Water You Fighting For?" of Flint, MI. Masten presents a timeline of events surrounding the crisis and discusses the chemical imbalances and additives currently found in the the Flint water supply. Jefferson discusses the decision by the city of Flint to move from using the Detroit water supply to water from the Flint River, and the community coming together to fight the switch. Carrera examines the sociopolitical issues surrounding the crisis, the legal environment that allowed the crisis to arise in the first place, and the importance of the struggle as an example of the power of organized communities to bring change. Mays discusses lead and copper poisoning, organizing citizens to fight government injustice, and bringing the Flint struggle to national attention. Fingal is introduced by Anne Ferguson, co-director of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context. Panelists answer questions from the audience. Co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, the MSU Gender Justice & Environmental Change Program, the MSU Department of Community Sustainability, and the MSU Lyman Briggs College. .
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The thesis of this paper is that meaningful and lasting development can only be based on the mobilisation of our people for effective transformation of the developmental process. However, the continuing search by Nigeria since independence for more dynamic, efficient and relevant strategies of achieving real development does imply frustration with past attempts as well as our inability to maximally and positively exploit these resources for the upliftment and well-being of the Nigerian people. This has resulted in the marginalisation of the vast majority of the people in the transformation process, particularly because of the low level of their education and, therefore, low consciousness which not only made them vulnerable to fraudulent manipulations by politicians, but has created among them a culture of helplessness, apathy and indifference about the happenings in the political and economic process.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- The aim of the experiment is to determine whether radio can be used In Kenya in the same way as it is used in Zimbabwe in the Development Through Radio (DTR) project. In the Zimbabwean project, 10 to 20 women in each radio listening groups (RLG) gather once a week to listen to a DTR broadcast In their local language on development information for farmers; and to discuss the broadcast and raise issues to be addressed In future DTR programmes. The programmes are community-oriented and a limited number is produced by the women's groups. Preliminary results in Zimbabwe show positive affirmation of the RLGs as contributing to developmental needs of a specific community. The RLG, as it is being structured in Kenya, holds promise of being able to increase women's interest in and use of nutrition-related information in the selection and preparation of food for their families.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
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- This paper attempts to simplify and explain the development process. It canvasses a micro, incremental Community Participation (CP) and Basic Needs Approach (BNA) to achieving and sustaining improved living conditions for the underprivileged and marginalised socio-economic groups in developing economies. Community participation is operationalised as a people-centred, skill-enhancing and empowerment device. It seeks to enlist the active involvement and influential participation of intended beneficiaries of development programmes in needs identification, prioritisation, project initiation, financing, execution, monitoring, evaluation, and consequent sustainability. The paper argues that, community participation as an alternative approach to development, requires alternative communication types, channels and strategies in the pursuit, actualisation and sustainability of development objectives. It differentiates between communicational improvement and operational communication, appraises the potentials and limitations of communication in development and suggests the use of participatory, community-based, small-group media for effective community participation and sustainable development.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
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- This article is about social mobilisation as a development communication approach which enhances people's participation in social or development programmes or projects. It examines the concept and elements of social mobilisation and the extent to which social mobilisation has been applied to improve people's participation in the Botswana national literacy programme. The analysis of social mobilisation practice in Botswana has shown that when mobilised, people participate in large numbers in development programmes. For example, mobilisation activities which were mounted during a period of one year between when the programme started as an experiment and when it was officially launched as a national programme resulted in impressive participation statistics. Finally, the article suggests the application of both social mobilisation and a literacy approach that is amenable to social mobilisation, if Botswana is to eradicate or greatly reduce adult illiteracy by the year 2000.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor Sara Fingal (Lyman Briggs College) moderates, "The Flint Water Crisis: A Panel Discussion." Panelists include Dr. Susan Masten, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MSU, Bishop Bernadel Jefferson, of the Faith Deliverance Center Church and the Democratic Defense League of Flint, MI, Jennifer Carrera, professor of Sociology and Environmental Science at MSU, and Melissa Mays, founder of "Water You Fighting For?" of Flint, MI. Masten presents a timeline of events surrounding the crisis and discusses the chemical imbalances and additives currently found in the the Flint water supply. Jefferson discusses the decision by the city of Flint to move from using the Detroit water supply to water from the Flint River, and the community coming together to fight the switch. Carrera examines the sociopolitical issues surrounding the crisis, the legal environment that allowed the crisis to arise in the first place, and the importance of the struggle as an example of the power of organized communities to bring change. Mays discusses lead and copper poisoning, organizing citizens to fight government injustice, and bringing the Flint struggle to national attention. Fingal is introduced by Anne Ferguson, co-director of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context. Panelists answer questions from the audience. Co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, the MSU Gender Justice & Environmental Change Program, the MSU Department of Community Sustainability, and the MSU Lyman Briggs College. .
- Date Issued:
- 2015-11-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks at green manufacturer and former Maytag plant, Trinity Structural Towers, in Newton, Iowa. It being Earth Day, President Obama discusses the work ahead to create green jobs and to project the environment. Obama talks about his administration's energy plan and encourages listeners to help make the change by keeping their tires inflated and using energy-efficient light bulbs.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Walter Campbell, former Regional Director for the Allied Industrial Workers (AIW) Region 7 in west Michigan and former Secretary-Treasurer of the Michigan State AFL-CIO, talks about the beginnings of the United Way, a coalition of charitable organizations pooling their efforts in fundraising and support. Campbell describes how community fund raising began in cities in Michigan and how labor unions became involved in the 1930s and 1940s. Campbell says that in 1947 Walter Reuther and Henry Ford II cooperated to create the United Way of Michigan which served to streamline giving and emphasized the positive role unions can play in their communities. He also talks about his work life and his involvement in organized labor. Campbell is interviewed by John Revitte, Michigan State University professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection