Will YOU blog/vid/pod on Dec 10th for Human Rights?
If you’re a blogger, podcaster, or videomaker, you know how much freedom you experience- I’m sure after Thanksgiving you’ve had a chance to be grateful for everything you have… which includes the power to make a difference online in social media for change.
December 10th, next Wednesday, is the big day.
Hundreds of bloggers, podcasters, and video producers will create and post something about Human Rights day on December 10th.
Are you in?
If so, please comment on this post to express your commitment!
It’ll take just a few minutes of your time. All you have to do on December 10th is:
- Say in a few words (or if you want, a lot of words) on your blog, podcast, or video, that
you support Human Rights Day - Link to this site
- Urge people to sign the petition
That’s it!
If you’re in, please comment below with your commitment. We can’t do it without you!
And once you comment your commitment, please tweet about this to your blogging/podcasting/videomaking friends!
Let’s make a big impact to stop slavery, torture, and oppression!
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.
Feh! Human rights are for losers!
;P
Of COURSE I’ll blog about human rights on 12/10!
I just want to know when we’re going to start caring about human lefts.
But seriously, I wish we’d all write about human rights every day–shouldn’t it be an every day issue, after all?
I will be blogging about the day and using social media to promote the concept. Thanks for organizing.
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I’ll be blogging about it in multiple locations and will tweet and facebook my posts.
Best,
Kimberly
@msomustek
Kimberly James’s last blog post..Magazines and Such
I am going to to blog about this, and tweet and post on my facebook :-)
Thank You,
Giovanna Garcia
Giovanna Garcia’s last blog post..10 things I have learned.
Here’s my post! It’s not much, but I hope it helps.
http://www.burnoutboy.com/2008/12/one-day-for-human-rights/
Toby’s last blog post..One Day for Human Rights
Here’s my blogpost. The topic is US infant circumcision. I’ve also added to my facebook notes. Thank you for organizing this!
http://suburbanhippygirl.blogspot.com/2008/12/human-rights-and-circumcision.html
Janna Finch’s last blog post..Human Rights and Circumcision
Blogging and all is great for spreading the word, but it also needs to lead to action. Join an activist group that works for peace and justice, and invite your friends, too. That’s what will change the world. Go to change.gov and take a stand, or several. Call Congress at 877-331-1223 and tell them to get those damn troops home yesterday! All of them!
Tell them to close Guantanamo Bay, and every single CIA prison in the world, and being the process of demilitarizing ourselves. The US may not be directly perpetrating most of the world’s human rights violations, but we’re usually supporting the ones who are – militarily or financially – and that has to stop, period. Tell them we need to be helping the struggling peoples of the world, not supporting the governments and corporations who are crushing the life out of them!
Tell them to bail out the everyday working men and women in the US, too, whose wages have fallen even as productivity has gone up and the work week gets longer & longer, whose jobs are being exported or downgraded for profit, contracted out, or eliminated altogether! Tell them we need a SOCIAL Monetary Fund to promote restructuring on OUR agenda – jobs, health, education and welfare – not war, not torture and not IMF-style “trickle-down” tax cuts for the wealthy and services cuts for the rest of us.
Tell them, if we have to bail out big businesses to save jobs, OK, but we shouldn’t sell ourselves cheap. Instead of paying them to kick people out of work, the gov’t should buy up voting shares or insist on other terms that put people back to work. They could do it thru a kind of gov’t-coordinated WPA or CCC to rebuild infrastructure, or by diversification – by investing in green economic developments like energy alternatives, public transportation (and cross-country freight by rail, not public roadway), and other progressive, sustainable developments, instead of lobbying and otherwise fighting against real progress.
Tell Congress we want the rich to bail out the rich, and while they’re at it, the rich need to pay their fair share overall. We want a progressive tax structure. The once-progressive income tax has collapsed its top rate from over 70% to under 35% in the last 3-4 decades. The experts say high income taxes slow growth – well, the “experts” got us into this mess, but – OK, we should be taxing wealth & speculation, anyway – land ownership, financial transactions like gambling on the stock market, inheritance, that sort of thing – and not sales or wages or other productive income.
Tell them we want them to PASS the Employee Free Choice Act, bring back the OSHA ergonomics standard, institute a national single-payer health plan, and join a whole host of international humanitarian agreements the US has been avoiding. We want them to END “NO Child Left Behind”, NAFTA and all the misnamed “free trade” agreements (replace them with “fair trade” agreements), the IMF (replace it with a “Social Monetary Fund”), the USA PATRIOT Act, and all the snooping and torture rubber stamps they’ve been suckered into – and properly fund education!
The list is probably endless. The important thing is to act, and encourage others to act. Today.
Bit late for me to pledge my support, but I wrote a post on it on my blog. It has a different flavor to it than what I figured others would be writing about. I hope that’s alright. Thanks!
http://biblicandymachines.com/2008/12/10/human-rights-day/
OmegaSpreem’s last blog post..Human Rights Day
What an amazing cause. I went to the Holocaust Museum this summer in DC, was totally inspired by the exhibit on Darfur, came home and immediately volunteered with a local organization that does work in Africa. It has been amazing to see the good one organization in podunk Utah can do for people in such need seemingly a world away.
After living in a third world country and visiting many, I have seen their struggles and looked into their pleading eyes. I know the answer isn’t easy, but I so appreciate you dedicating a post and your twitter influence to this cause. I’m behind you and it!
jyl_mommygossip’s last blog post..Moms Make a Difference
Thank you for your continued support and encouragements!
@Toby – each and everyone helps, no matter how insignificant you think they are! :)
@Ricky – One Day for Human Rights is mainly an awareness campaign. For people to be able to take action, they first need to know what is happening in this world. Thank you for your very resourceful comment, and for taking the time to post this list! I hope people will take action following this campaign and your advice on how to act further in supporting human rights. :)
@Nicholas – i love the different approach, it’s great!
@jyl – i am glad to see that there are still people out there who care just because it is natural to care, without having any gain from it. Thank you for your kind words! they’re very welcomed!
Thank you ALL again,
Anca
Dear friends of course I will do my best to spread the message and give my small help to a better world! Yes i will blog it. Yes I will print it take it to working and studying places. Yes I will make a big forward.
The video is very, very good as well as the poster1
Maria Celeste
Thank you, Maria! :)