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Earth Day celebrates its 40th anniversary

Earth Day 2010 celebrates the 40th anniversary‎ of this special day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. Forty years after the first Earth Day, we have to face the truth: the world is in greater peril than ever… Climate change, pollution, environment issues; a lot of work has still to be done to stop ...


International Women’s Day: Extraordinary Women

  Last Monday was the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. Many events were organized in many countries, and our last Twitter Sunday updates were dedicated to Women for Women and CARE. Yesterday, Max Dana posted an article on her blog: – ‘International Women’s Day: Ordinary Extraordinary Women” . Many Sama-Readers sent us emails and commented to know if Max was doing something special for Women’s Day; the ...


Pierre Soulages: black like you never saw it before

This post is for all the fans of Max Dana‘s work who want to know more about her inspiration, where it comes from and who inspires her. Working with her and knowing her well, we are supposed to know many things about her work but we are far from knowing everything. For example, we of course know she likes black (in her drawings, her paintings… and in what she wears) but we learned a lot from her recent post on her Blog. It is about ...


Why France is best place to live in world

That is the title of a post published on CNN: ‘Why France is best place to live in world’. Bindi Dupouy is Australian, she lives in Paris and she’s married to a French man. Most of the Sama Team members live in Paris and we were very happy to read that France was voted the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row by International Living magazine. Let’s find out the reasons exposed in CNN’s article by ...


Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation, education?

  Last week, we posted an article: Haiti: International Aid Mobilization On The Way. Like everyone, we wanted to react about the earthquake that devastated Haiti and express our compassion and our solidarity with the Haitians. There is not one day we do not talk about it and yesterday, Max Dana published on her Blog titled: ‘Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education?’.   This article is worth to read if you want to go ...


The Sama Gazette 2009 Round Up

  Well, 2009 will soon be over. We have enjoyed sharing with you the many topics we talked about on the Sama Gazette since it was launched this Summer. You are great Sama-Readers and we are very proud you like this place, a piece of the World of Sama we all love. It’s time to go back on our previous posts before our first one of 2010. We hope you will still be there next year, be assured the Sama Team will be. And many thanks to Max Dana for ...


Season’s Greetings: Give and Share

This time of the year is celebrated almost by everyone, whether you have faith or not. Whether you are into a religion or not. We also think this time of the year is more about giving than receiving. Share. Listen. Give a hand. Help. Of course we don’t pretend we are the perfect ones, on the contrary. But we can give, even if not much. Below, a list of gifts and organizations for your consideration, if you want to give, of course… Let’s ...


International Human Rights Day 2009

2009 marks the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s an important event and last year, we had the chance to live the events related to the 60th anniversary; in December 08, Max Dana launched the “60 Signers for the 60th Anniversary” Initiative to support the Every Human Has Rights Campaign (The Elders) on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Neither of us ever heard of ...


Barack Obama: disappointment and hope

  We enjoy discussing about all kind of topics within the Sama Team, even the more controversial ones. And surprisingly, it appears everything connected to Barack Obama is controversial. A year after Barack Obama was elected US President, many people say the US President’s performance has dismayed even his biggest admirers, at a time when the country is facing the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s…   The ...


Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough?

Yesterday, Max Dana posted on her blog a long article titled: Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? All the Sama Team felt very concerned by the subject, we discussed a lot about it since yesturday so we decided to post this entire article on the Sama Gazette. If you are a regular reader of the Gazette, you know we usually don’t post anything directly connected to Max Dana (it’s an internal policy, we stay independent ...






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