Day 3: Thanksgiving!
On Thanksgiving we have passed 600 signatures on our petition to print the UDHR in passports! As a little thank you, I have asked our last 3 petitioners before #600 to tell us a little bit about themselves, and the reason for which they have signed! Number 599 did not write back yet, but Mitsi McKee and Matt Haltom did.
Thank you both very much for sending a few words for our One Day for Human Rights, and for your support!
MITSI MCKEE – sh3n3rd World
I am part….mom, liberal, volunteer, nerd, friend, neighbor, dreamer, armchair philosopher, artist, and serial optimist.
I signed the petition because I think character means doing the right thing — even when no-one is watching.
If i could only impart only ONE thing to my sons throughout their lives it would that we are all humans, and as such….deserving of equal amounts of respect. No matter what!
Visit Mitsi's website @ http://sh3n3rd.blogspot.com/
Add Mitsi on Twitter @sh3n3rd
MATT HALTOM – Another Color Web
I am a graphic and web designer in Boulder Colorado. I wouldn’t say I’m an activist in any sense, and most of the time my opinions are very two sided.
After hearing about One Day for Human Rights on Twitter, I checked it out. Taking in everything, any decent person can assume that things like torture, slavery and oppression are wrong. Even in our crazy changing world, politics seems to rain supreme sometimes.
My hope is that in signing the petition, lawmakers and leaders around the world might take note. Perhaps one day people everywhere can agree on one thing, our rights as humans.
Visit Matt's website @ http://www.anothercolorweb.com
Add Matt on Twitter @matthaltom
I think it’s great to get to hear the reasoning behind these signatures…what makes people stand for human rights and support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These are just 2 examples, but I will definitely ask more people. Maybe you can LEAVE A COMMENT with what motivated YOU to sign the petition!
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And now the third day stats real quick:
- 50 new signatures for the Petition to print the UDHR in passports, bringing the total number of signatures up to 614!
- 52 more followers on Twitter – total number of followers: 498 :) Thank you all for your interest and support!
- 29 more members (139 total) accepted our invitation to join the “One Day For Human Rights” Facebook Group, and a total of 132 confirmed that they will take action in promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10
- 3 more people (total of 17) accepted the invitation to join the “One Day for Human Rights” FLICKR Group. Please keep joining and show your creativity inspired by human rights issues! :)
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Love,
Anca
Tags: human rights, petition for universal declaration of human rights, support
In celebration of its Anniversary, “One Day for Human Rights” is an awareness campaign aimed to promote and support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
I signed the petition because everyone deserves to be treated equally as a human with rights. This may seem like a easy concept to grasp hold of but many many many people around the world in nations we work with are being treated as sub-par humans.
Put yourself in their shoes. I’m not asking you to campaign for a very specific cause to stop hunger somewhere in a nation in Africa or something else you may not be able to wrap your mind around because it’s so far away. I’m asking you to STAND UP FOR EQUAL BASIC RIGHTS FOR ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE!
If that’s not a simple grand enough concept for anyone to wrap their minds around i don’t know what is.
During my undergraduate training as a comparative literature / philosophy / studio arts “major,” I was fortunate to study with a brilliant philosophy professor from Austria. My independent seminar paper that year focused on Greek tragedy, and more specifically on the mythological origins of human tragedy. During one of our weekly, hour-long conference sessions, in the gray dreariness of February, our discussion moved to encompass the Holocaust of World War II, and eventually she grew silent and thoughtful, removed a passport-sized booklet from a desk drawers, and introduced me to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Following our slightly emotional discussion about what the document and its sentiments mean to the world’s inhabitants, she quietly slid the booklet across her conference table and suggested softly, “You may want to carry this with your passport. I do. Just as a…reminder.”
The booklet has been my passport’s constant companion ever since.
I signed the petition because of that day: to remember, and to always hold close, what was so eloquently impressed on me regarding basic human rights; to assert my beliefs that everyone in the world be extended those same basic human rights; and to, in some small way, remind myself of what can happen when those basic human rights are taken away from us.
Atherton Bartelby’s last blog post..Eyes Wide Open
Human rights is being granted to us during our birth and no constitution or law could remove it.
charles’s last blog post..VMN.net – Personalized Start Page Website
@Damien – thank you, Damien! I wish everybody in the world would be able to agree with you. Unfortunately we have to fight for what’s rightfully ours to begin with – equality and freedom. Thank you for your help and support!
@Atherton Your story couldn’t be more fitting for this cause and what we’re trying to do. I got chills down my spine reading it. You’re awesome! :)
@charles That is so true! The problem is that not everybody respects people’s birth rights. Hence our campaign and movement. :)
Thank you all for your comments!
Anca
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