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kitchen_kinkHaving recently finished the highly worthwhile book of essays, The Impossible Will Take A Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amber_phoenix), I've begun thinking more and more about what I can do, as one person. It's still difficult to have hope, but I begin to believe more in nonviolent resistance, grassroots organization and protest, and especially, the ability of one person to do something.
It's a huge movement, and a lot of you have probably seen it before, but One.org is, it seems, a very neat way for one person to come forward and have his or her voice heard. All you have to do is go and add your name to the campaign.
There's also a hot video with Brad Pitt, Steve Buscemi, Al Pacino, Orlando Bloom, Ellen Degeneres, Holly Hunter, Antonio Banderas, George Clooney, Bono, Kevin Bacon, Edward Norton, Cameron Diaz, Tom Hanks, Salma Hyack, and, like, a zillion other of the coolest famous people talking earnestly in black and white.
I'm not entirely sure how the entire thing works, even after it was explained to me on the website. But it's got a lot of the major humanitarian organizations behind it, and hell, the financial power of all of those celebrities must be enormous. But more importantly, it seems, all these folks are using their extreme visibility and fame to get ordinary Americans to voice their opinion about a simple notion: what if just an additional one percent of America's budget were devoted to relieving starvation, AIDS, and extreme poverty in the poorest countries of the world?
It sounds as idealistic as any other such solution. But think about it. What if?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm tired of sitting around not doing anything. This isn't much, but it's a start.
Go.
amber_phoenix), I've begun thinking more and more about what I can do, as one person. It's still difficult to have hope, but I begin to believe more in nonviolent resistance, grassroots organization and protest, and especially, the ability of one person to do something.It's a huge movement, and a lot of you have probably seen it before, but One.org is, it seems, a very neat way for one person to come forward and have his or her voice heard. All you have to do is go and add your name to the campaign.
There's also a hot video with Brad Pitt, Steve Buscemi, Al Pacino, Orlando Bloom, Ellen Degeneres, Holly Hunter, Antonio Banderas, George Clooney, Bono, Kevin Bacon, Edward Norton, Cameron Diaz, Tom Hanks, Salma Hyack, and, like, a zillion other of the coolest famous people talking earnestly in black and white.
I'm not entirely sure how the entire thing works, even after it was explained to me on the website. But it's got a lot of the major humanitarian organizations behind it, and hell, the financial power of all of those celebrities must be enormous. But more importantly, it seems, all these folks are using their extreme visibility and fame to get ordinary Americans to voice their opinion about a simple notion: what if just an additional one percent of America's budget were devoted to relieving starvation, AIDS, and extreme poverty in the poorest countries of the world?
It sounds as idealistic as any other such solution. But think about it. What if?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm tired of sitting around not doing anything. This isn't much, but it's a start.
Go.
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Date: 2005-05-26 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-26 05:25 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONE_Campaign was helpful.