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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Campaign'
Community Activism: Battling the 88 Greenwich Board & Management Company
May 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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









