Comments on: Day 3: Thanksgiving!

By: Anca

Anca — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:27:48 +0000

@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

By: charles

charles — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:54:21 +0000

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

By: Atherton Bartelby

Atherton Bartelby — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:59:21 +0000

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

By: Damien Basile

Damien Basile — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:44:38 +0000

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.