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Palestinians Tear Down Apartheid Wall
Ramallah, November 9 This afternoon, exactly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, popular committees struggling against the Apartheid Wall and the settlements destroyed part of the Wall near Qalandiya. Hundreds of people, with some 30 international supporters, used a truck to pull down part of the Wall in the area east of the Qalandiya refugee camp and beyond the UN Vocational College. They also destroyed iron gates and other pieces of concrete in the same area.
After breaching the Wall, protestors approached the road on the other side where they burned car tires to slow the approach of Occupation forces, who quickly arrived in the area and began firing gas and rubber bullets. Protestors were wearing shirts upon which was written “Jerusalem we are coming”, the name of the planned action.
Today is 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and marks the first day of a week of resistance to the Apartheid Wall in Palestine and around the globe. Several demonstrations and campaigns are planned, including the November 12 launch of Stop the Wall’s campaign calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all anti-Wall activists currently imprisoned. -
Can Ordinary People really change government?
Exiled Burmese watch a video commemorating the 1988 pro-democracy uprising. Mae Hong Son, Tahiland.
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Tumbling4Good Action #2: Donate Blood Did you know “Currently only 3 out of every 100 people in America donate blood.” And I don’t think that many people are afraid of needles. The reality is that we don’t make time for it. I should have donated last November, but didn’t get around to it until May. Now I’m making sure it’s on my calendar so I can donate again. Here’s a shot my arm, and my nice pint of blood sitting on the table. Now, if that doesn’t make you queasy, then it’s time for you to make an appointment.
- Go to http://www.givelife.org
- Make your appointment and go to it.
- Post a picture of your pint of blood (and for the competitive types, how long it took to fill it) and give the link to your post in the answers below so I can reblog it.
- Oh, and reblog this post.
What are you waiting for?
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Osocio: Awards can’t feed the hungry
Stealourideas.com is a new website made by duo Jon & Adam, recently left their respective agencies in New York, who were used to getting ideas stolen - and decided to make it official.
It plays on a human truth about how a lot of social advertising is done for the wrong reasons (awards where the work doesn’t actually run) and how it needs to make a difference in the real world. Jon & Adam feel this is a needed message that your brand can get behind during this award season, seeing as how your site acts as an in-between for both advertising people and social activism.
“Every year hundreds of PSAs are done for the wrong reasons.
Help us to create social advertising that actually makes a difference.”Take a look at Stealourideas.com and don’t be shy, ask a concept for yourself, brand or ngo.
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The Interactive Climate Thermometer
also submitted for Oxfam GB as part of the Youtube Cannes Young Lions Competition. very creative.
Posted on May 25, 2009 -
Bamboo Bike Studio
Our mission is twofold: provide every cyclist the experience of building his or her dream bike from scratch, while advancing sustainable entrepreneurship and development through financing bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America.
One weekend is all it takes to fabricate a frame from bamboo— a renewable and performance-positive material growing right in our backyard— assemble the components, and roll away with a custom-fitted ride, tuned to your body and cycling style. And the cost of the class directly supports the Bamboo Bike Studio’s efforts to seed the first bamboo bike factory in Ghana, where reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources, and health care.

what these guys are doing is super innovative, super progressive, and super awesome. They’re based in brooklyn, NY and aim to establish sustainable bamboo bike factories in Ghana, Kenya and Ecuador. Not only do you learn how to make your own bike, but they also help you customise your bike to fit YOUR needs as a rider. i love it.
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this idea is incredible and so inspiring. i need to be doing stuff like this now and this video is exactly what i needed.
Super creative ad campaign about landmines.
Picture yourself living with the dangerous threat of stepping on a landmine at any time.
The campaign is already finished but the video tells the story.
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P.S. Don’t forget to Vote!
