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Community Activism: Battling the 88 Greenwich Board & Management Company

May 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Ok, so here’s the deal. Residents in my building, Greenwich Club Residences, have been trying to get our management company to removed plastic lock boxes from the Sirius Radio control units in the common areas of our building. When I first moved in, we had access to control the radios, as these radios [...]

Tags: 88Greenwich · Activism · Campaign · NYC · New York · News · Personal

Burma Disaster Relief

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

From Avaaz.org:
In the wake of a massive cyclone, at least 22,000 Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing. A million are homeless.
But what’s happening in Burma is not just a natural disaster–it’s also a catastrophe of bad leadership.
Burma’s brutal and corrupt military junta failed to warn the people, failed to evacuate any areas, and [...]

Tags: Avaaz · Burma · Campaign · Uncategorized

[AVAAZ] Food Crisis

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Dear friends,

Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure — sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
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Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here’s why — we’re plunging headlong into a world food crisis. Rocketing prices are squeezing billions [...]

Tags: Activism · Avaaz · Campaign · Food · Human Rights · Media · Video · YouTube

Boycotting the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

April 15th, 2008 · 16 Comments

The following letter ended up in my inbox today from Huang Jinming of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of China. Their website is under construction and there wasn’t much I could find out about them online. However, their letter lays out some principled, well-reasoned arguments, so I thought it [...]

Tags: Activism · Campaign · China · Culture · Democracy · Human Rights · Links · News · Taiwan · Tibet

Avaaz: Burma campaign update

October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

This is an email I received today from Avaaz.org. They are on a staff retreat right now in the South of Spain, but it seems like they are keeping busy with this Burma campaign and trying to get ads placed in newspapers. I can’t wait to see what the ads look like. [...]

Tags: Avaaz · Burma · Campaign · Democracy · Human Rights · Media · News · Politics