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Decide the next Bloggers Unite Initiative
Posted by TonyB • 6/11/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bloggers unite, refugees united
The May 15th Bloggers Unite initiative received major press coverage, and raised the awareness about the power of bloggers to make a difference.
The result, a number of non profits have contacted bloggers unite to join them in their cause.
One cause in particular stood out for me. The timely and urgent need for attention to this cause lead me to post this today and not wait.
The next BU initiative will be held on Nov. 10th and the BU team would like to know whether you'd like to join this cause or should we blog for some other cause.
The opportunity we have been presented with is to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Refuguees United, founded by Christopher Mikkelsen, a blogcatalog member, and his brother David, have approached Bloggers Unite and asked us to harness the powers we have as bloggers to raise awareness about the plight of refugees.
15 million refugees are caught in an existential limbo. 15 million people live as stateless persons, unaccounted for by any government, unwanted by all. They have no legal papers, no rights, no chance to register under the somewhat protective status as refugees. Ghosts in a world recognizing human beings as social security numbers, refugee numbers, case numbers and birth certificates. Invisible people roaming the world in a never ending circle of desperation.
They cannot seek family, for they are not refugees. They cannot seek protection, for they are not citizens. They are persona non grata in all corners of the world and their fate deserves to be told. Their situation deserves to be changed, as according to the 1961 UN Refugee Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Your voice will be theirs, as will your words, when you bring world attention to this group of the lost.
Refugees United has created a global, online database providing refugees with an anonymous way to seek missing family. By being able to register under nicknames, scars etc. coupled with information on village, birth year and so on, refugees may seek, find and contact each other in a closed-circuit secure environment, in their own language, to reconnect with missing loved ones.
In our world, millions of people have been uprooted from their daily lives in escape from peril and persecution. War, political turmoil, famine and natural disasters have thrown an estimated 35 million people into the massive human tide of people seeking peace and the possibility for them and their family to merely live.
Escaping under dire circumstances and often only with the clothes on their backs and a few belongings, endless families are separated from each other, caught in conflicts and falling victim to the chaos and turmoil. Mothers and fathers become lost from their children, siblings from each other and friends disappear. Human traffickers, fear and young ones being caught in the midst of an uprising are all factors that serve to split apart loved ones. Often never to find each other again and countless people must go through life with the torture of knowing that somewhere, family is desperately looking for them too.
The challenge for Refugees United, in order for to reach the millions of people necessary, is information. Words. Blogs. People to people aid as information is the aid in this dynamic endeavor, words the saving factor which will bring a refugee to find out that there is a new way to seek and find missing family. The words we send out into the blogosphere will permeate the web, spreading and finding the searching eyes desperately trying to find information on loved ones.
Knowledge is power and in this instance, the true way to harness the power of knowledge, bringing the world to a better place by forwarding information that will simply contribute to families finding each other again.
Bloggers Unite will serve as a platform of direct aid, a straight cause and effect instance, where the Internet is the platform of aid and BU the human rights vehicle, which brings knowledge, making a change. A powerful coalition to make disaster aid and technology coalesce, to show a new way forward.
Refugees do not read mainstream newspapers nor do they watch the same news channels we do. But everyone uses the Internet. A border free, unhindered and self-perpetuating message of hope will ripple across forums, thoughts and lives, destined to find the person looking. We can help make this change. Our words can change the lives of many.
By deciding over the next few weeks about what to blog about on November 10th, we will have plenty of time to spread word about whatever initiative we choose.
Please share your thoughts here and say whether you are for Bloggers Unite to raise Awareness about the plight of Refugees or are for some other cause.
Thanks
Tony
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well ethiopia has a famine again-
Yes, and there are refugees suffering there countrystudies.us/ethiopia/46.htm
While at first blush this may seem to be a too narrow a problem to focus on, this really is a global problem. It is really difficult to reach refugees in distant places. This is an information challenge. Information leads to empowerment. Refugees United enables destitute refugees to take matters into their own hands. Bloggers Unite enables ordinary folks to easily make an extraordinary difference.
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So, there's a specific site that these people are directed to?-
If the BU community selects to join to raise awareness about the plight of refugees we will be redoing the Bloggers Unite page making it a resource with source material about refugees around the world, along with a new discussion area. Our goal for this next initiative is to turn the Bloggers Unite page into it's own social community, a place for compassionate bloggers.
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Sounds pretty cool.
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I think so too. Christopher is a BlogCatalog member. I'm sure he will join this conversation and answer any questions.
His BC page is www.blogcatalog.com/user/Refunite
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This sounds interesting, it will be my first in a "bloggers unite". -
Sounds like a great idea. I think it's cool that you got so much attention from the previous ones. Excellent
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It's pretty cool. I think the true feel of a community comes from joining together for a good cause. Im not sure if there is another blog initiative created to harnesses the power of expression in support of issues that need highlighting. For Refugees United, information is paramount to refugees connecting with their family members.
We have 6 months to spread the word. Some major companies have asked to be sponsors for the next Bloggers Unite event. Once the community decides what the event will be, these companies will officially announce their sponsorship.
It's so exciting to see how the BlogCatalog community has united for each event and raised awareness and changed lives in the process.
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I'd like to blog on that day about the refugee situation in Britain in particular - a lot of folks (in the west) are under the impression that when someone makes it to welathy countries like Britain as a refugee for example, that their problems are over - in many ways they are just beginning. I'm up for this one.
Ben-
OzScot, great you're up for this. I think a lot of folks in the west aren't aware of the global nature of this problem. It touches every country and everyone one of us.
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For a lot more information, you're also more than welcome to visit www.refunite.org, which is the site where the actual earch engine will be up and running within 2 weeks. As we're speaking, the engine is being translated into 20 odd languages, to provide refugees with a chance to perform this anonymous search in their mother tongue. However, on the foundation part of the site, you'll find much information on the initiative, the background etc.
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Hi Christopher. Thanks for joining in the discussion. Can you please explain a bit about how Refugees United will be involved or support the bloggers who participate in Bloggers Unite, if the community decides to join together in support of this initiative?
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First and foremost, we'll supply streamlined information on the plight of refugees seeking family and the status and information on the millions caught in a stateless situation. We will be bringing testimonials from refugees caught in this situation to better grasp the concept of being without actual identity and supply everyone with direct action initiatives on where to direct their words. Of course, everyone is free to write to whom they please, we'll just serve up some dishes of inspiration.
There's a long story behind the creation of Refugees United, which we'll be posting on our blog shortly, which details why we began and the story of Mansour, a young Afghan separated from his 5 siblings and parents and his search for them. We found 1 brother in Russia and Mansour has asked us to help find the rest of his family and in lieu of this, bring attention to the millions of other people desperately seeking family.
Coupled with Refugees United is a long list of companies, agencies and other NGO's. We'll be doing global press releases on the Bloggers Unite initiative running up to and on the day, to ensure maximum exposure and to bring your wonderful blogs as far out into the stratosphere of the Internet as possible.
Bloggers can link the concept of Refugees United and the anonymous search with a host of refugee issues, also beyond statelessness, as almost every refugee has felt the sting of missing family and friends throughout their escape and further lives.
Our 'only' quest is information, as this is the key here, the aid which will bring refugees to learn of this tool to reconnect with missing loved ones. We harness the Internet for aid purposes, you harness it for empowerment by bringing knowledge to the world.
I suggest you read our blog when I have posted the story of Mansour, to get an inside view on the pain so many people must endure in silence.
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@Tony & refunite I'm not exactly sure how to phrase this... CNN is wonderful and all but for someone like me who doesn't have cable as individual bloggers shouldn't we start bugging our local news stations? Do you guys have press releases? -
@shiley, YES! Definitely. I think local may be even more effective at getting the word out about what we are doing.
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I just finished reading the story of Mansour and I sincerely hope you will keep us updated on him and the rest of his family. I assume there are other family members other than X who have not been located.
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a lot of research but I'm up for the challenge.
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This sounds like a good idea.
On an interesting note I had an article about a virtual sit-in in Tunisia for human rights, and they found me! (guys from Tunisia)
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@Shiley:
Refugees United is in a partnership with Ketchum Estrategia, part of the global Ketchum PR agency, so we'll make sure to get news/press releases out to the far corners of the world.
And you're very right in bringing up local media, there's such a different spirit to that kind of 'close' media and I think it would be great to create a game plan to start knocking on the doors!-
So, what's your spiel? What do you typically tell people involved in press? This is a topic I don't generally think about. If it was a cause I know a lot a bout I wouldn't be at a loss for words. I have a lot of causes this is just one I haven't tapped into yet.
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Dear Shiley, here's an exercise that might help you to envision exactly what to write:
Think about if you lost contact with your children. Or parents. Or siblings. Think about the life your child would have without your protection. Then about the fact that he or she might be in the neighboring country, but since no central registry had been created, you might very well not know their fate. The hardship this is, the emotional torture.
This is why we created this system taking into account low levels of literacy, unfamiliarity with IT and keeping everything in easy to understand, native languages. And most importantly keeping anonymity as the highest point, allowing all to register with information only family and close friends would recognize.
Though it's a little long, I urge you to go to our blog and read the post called 'The Beginning of Refugees United'. It will really bring you into the center of the cause and show the necessity of www.refunite.org
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I already read it. When I get myself into something I research it. I studied journalism so I'm loaded full of questions. That's just my nature. I tend to drive people crazy. I commented 5 hours ago on your blog.
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We'll do what we can to support the initiative here in Dubai!-
grateful for visiting my blog naesquinadobrasil.blogspot.com/
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Great cause. I'm in. -
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I'm in, and what great follow up to the previous cause. -
I think this is a worthy cause. -
I am in, and will promote whatever we all decide on. Every cause is a worthy one... -
Having worked for an NGO refugee agency I am interested in the history behind it, who are you partnering with, and as I assume you have no financial papers to disclose yet, yet you are asking for donations, so what are your projected
Program Expenses
Administrative Expenses
Fund raising Expenses
much of this is what makes a charity legitimate or not.
I love the idea, but hate to have some online site with a few partners acting like those men who call to solicit funds for the local police - they take sometimes up to sixty to eighty percent of the donations as profit.
Are you partnering with by any chance with...
The IRC?
Refugees International or even the
American Refugee Committee or
The UNHCR?
I'm just trying to find how how you claim legitimacy.
It's a great idea I just want to know where you expect your donations to go.
I'm sorry if I'm highly suspect in things like this - there are many of these things around which basically are rip-offs and I would need to know you are not one.
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I'm all for aiding refugees, though I just want to know how you plan to go about this. Didn't want to be a kill joy.
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Hi Cooper,
There's nothing kill joy about asking for information pertaining to a proposed cause. Refugees United completely support this.
RU is a fully funded project. We're non-political, non-religious and non government. The objective of this endeavor is under no circumstance to raise money, but awareness.
Please refer to our Board of Directors:
refunite.org/32317/Secretariat
Refugees United is a registered charity in Denmark, as well as under way to become a 501(c)3 U.S. charity. We have been in legal existence for 3 years and enjoy wide support from various business entities as well as NGO's.
A few examples which are directly accessible:
From the New Zealand Refugee Council
www.rc.org.nz/links.html
From the UNCHR, listed under NGOs:
www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/reflink/download.htm
As far as further in-depth journeys into program, administrative and other expenses, this is quite a large and heavy information issue, far too comprehensive to get into on a Bloggers Unite message board. However, any and all inquiries to these matters are more than welcome and should be sent to my email cm (@) refunite.org where we will happily go into details on project finances and administrative overheads.
Actually, we have specialized in minimizing most of these, which we're very proud of, so I'd love to tell you more about how we do 'business'. If so desired, I'd be pleased to go into this on the message board as well.
I hope this satisfies some of your questions and I'm at your service for more :-)-
@Christopher, is it fair to say that harnessing awareness is more important at this point to addressing this global problem than raising money?
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@TonyB:
Yes, that's fair to say. We'd very much like for the focus to be on raising awareness only, not finances.
The ambition is to find the best ways to reach across difficult barriers, across borders of cut-off societies and bring knowledge of this system to families much in need. There is every indication that the dynamics of the blogosphere will be a powerful agent of information unhindered, reaching into places impossible to go otherwise.
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That date could be bad. Isn't that the day before the American election? You might lose a lot of American bloggers that way, not to mention the fight for attention in the American media.
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Hmmm, when we looked up the date it was the week before Nov. 10th. I believe the election is November 4th.
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First Tuesday? Okay. Was thinking it was the second. That's what I get for thinking tonight.
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hahahah One more thought please. Are you for the Refugees United initiative? You may have surmised that we took your suggestion and are organizing BU events every 6 months.
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I haven't read the whole thing, but in general I can get behind refugee issues. I suspect it can be non-partisan, at least the general issue, if not the concrete policies.
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The leader for this discussion was a discussion of ideas for the next Bloggers Unite. I'm sorry that I missed the first but I read about it and I congratulate those who participated.
The only idea I've seen discussed is about refugees and just a few organizations.
The purpose of this reply is not to downplay the issue of refugees (with China, literally all over the world) but to propose an alternative - not any better, and perhaps not any worse, just an alternative. I do know that we all can have a direct hand in effecting change by a few simple emails or calls or blogs - perhaps more so with one particular idea than another. Here is one such alternative.
On Thursday, NPR's Terry Gross had an interview with some 4th graders about requesting cities and towns to change margins when printing. After some research and math, I found that you can save more than 5% of your printing (if you print manuscripts, documentation, etc) if you change your margins from 1/2" to 1/4". The kids estimated that over 6 million trees would be saved per year. (I'm not going to debate that here but let's look at the carbon footprint as well.)
I ask you to imagine saving entire forests, hundreds of tankers of diesel, and expand your horizons a bit to think about energy a bit more.
Please stay with me for just a few minutes. Let's expand their idea a bit. Let's imagine that we request that literally every organization in the world does the following:
Give URLs on business cards instead of printed brochures.
Asking tradeshow companies to quit issuing schedules and develop better ways to deliver them electronically
Asking everyone you can imagine to change their print margins - if they have to print to 1/4" from 1/2" or more. (1/4 inch saves more than 5% of one piece of paper)
Request that IT departments change margins on all reports that might get printed
Ask all companies to quit sending catalogs except for those who specifically request them
Ask companies like Discover and others to send only one junk email and if they don't receive a response, to stop
Request that all software companies issue software updates that change margins in their software for anything that might be printed
Request that all newspapers change their formats so that they are using smaller margins and less white space in advertising - perhaps going so far as requiring a message density requirement on advertising
Ask the IRS and other government agencies to allow for email only communications
This, by no means is not an exhaustive list but let's look at the organizations we can make this request to - or imagine if we can get it legislated:
The US Government (All over the place! Every department no matter how small or large. Can you imagine the Department of Defense or Nasa and all those specifications?)
State Governments and all departments within
Local Governments and all departments within
FIREA (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, etc) firms
Specification intense firms (architects, designers, software companies, defense contractors
Ask lawyers and editors to figure out a new way to edit and make annotations
Last thought. This could be something we all can do before the end of the summer. My hats go off to the 4th Graders in Watertown, MA for their inspiration.
A couple of links to consider:
www.changethemargins.com/
epaper.communityserver.com/blogs/founders/archive/2008/06/12/be-marginal-to...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403284.ht...
www.conservatree.com/
Perhaps we can get the price of oil lowered via reducing demand?
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Interesting my son's school has cut down on the paper too. We get notices and info via their website and if we want we can print it but most times we don't. Interesting that you are promoting this. Yeah I'm for saving the trees. -
Good stuff! Maybe you could consider expanding out a little bit from not only refugees (and the Rufugees United group) and helping them gain rightful status in a country, but helping all refugees in many ways.
For example, helping the refugees of a natural disaster in the U.S. find a physical home...or even family members!
Refugees are displaced no matter which way you look at it...there is a myriad of needs for these people. I'm not saying the task at hand as spelled out already is not crucial or enough to tackle...I'm just wondering if we could get more involvement when more levels of refugee help are included. Again, this is not to take away from the RU group either...they have a great mission! -
REfugees is a godd call. But the world situation with the food crises and the oil crisis it`s good topics too. Contries in development like mine will be seriously afected
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Economy. Unite about the sodding economy and I'll participate. I'll probably end up writing about it, anyway.
Refugees falls under human rights, which means it will be somewhat of a repeat of May 15th's event.-
As I read this, it isn't about rights at all. No one is claiming that refugees have a "right" to help finding their families, only that it is the right thing to do.
Think of one refugee as a drop in a pond. Making that one drop a happy, useful drop contributing to the world affects the drops around him and ripples out to drops three lily pads over. [Ack, I tortured that metaphor until it broke. I hope you understand my point, at any rate.]
I do think that this is a worthy topic, so long as we are not specifically focused on one organization. Raising awareness of the horror and confusion that refugees suffer will help people understand why they should find ways to help. That's not about rights, it's about people helping each other in times of need. -
It's a worthy topic for you, but not me. You can't get me to "join the herd" even for a day unless it's a topic that interests me.
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This could be my first BU event. I vote for energy/green living/sustainable living/environment/global warming. As you discussed, this next event is scheduled immediately after the American election. What more perfect time to turn up the heat (pardon the global warming pun) on staying the damage we're doing to this earth; put pressure on the whole world to find alternative fuels, etc. As in a previous event, "pick your topic." Green is my passion & I'd love to participate with this as the topic. With respect, I agree that the plight of refugees falls under Human Rights. -
I hope to help too although my knowledge in this area is sadly lacking, I hope there is something I can do.
I would also like to suggest a future bloggers unite on wellness for ourselves and our planet and in particular the wide use of chemicals in homes and workplaces and what affect they have on us and our planet, I guess that might fit well with "angelsolutions" suggested topic above.
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I won't claim to be in until there's a final subject, but to this point, refugee issues and global warming/green living are strong possibilities for me to get included.
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I'm in.
After we nail down a topic, it may be helpful to set a specific goal, too. Raise XXX number of money, or send traffic to a certain site where all our feeds go to as well, or ... I don't what else.
As for PR, don't forget about celebrity bloggers who also have TV shows -- Martha Stewart and Ellen quickly come to mind. -
Yes sir. Great idea. I have a lot of reading to do... -
Food shortages, droughts, over-reliance on oil for energy and the devastating effects this is having now, recycling, reusing, reducing, new/old ways of raising food and teaching those to the world, saving our wildlife, organic gardening and foods, reducing the use of chemicals in our foods, solar energy, freecycle. There are large and small topics that bloggers can undertake in support of making huge changes for the earth. Without continuous information, global political pressure if you will, and the support of groups such as Bloggers Unite, the plight of the Earth will affect us all.
I'll give you a small example from mom & pop ecommerce. The plight of eBay sellers who grew part-time businesses into main sources of income; some growing larger enterprises out of their eBay business. Along comes a spider (oooops, sorry--no politics), along come some corporate changes believed to be in the "best interests" of buyers and sellers. Except that we buyers and sellers know better. Since 2005, disorganized but angry sellers and confused but dissatisfied buyers have been trying to raise their voice to the giant. Many boycott eBay completely and help spread the word (myself included) that there is something more insidious happening here. Three years and one CEO later, we've been elevated to "noise" by the new CEO. ROFL! A Victory! eBay no longer rules the world (LOL) up to and including stock price drops, a definite migration of buyers and sellers, conviction in France (!) and a recent HUGE victory in Australia that prevents eBay from potentially monopolizing the online payment systems sellers can offer their buyers. Noise? Can Donahoe hear us now? And the fight escalates. Pardon me for dirtying my suggestion with this particular example, but I hope it helps me make my point. Except now I feel I need to wash my hands. LOL
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Hello. I think that the discucion on drinking water, it would be interesting. Water for all. preserve drinking water. The theme of drinking water should not be only political, we realise this.
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While the majority of people members here seem to be in favor of raising awareness about refugees, I think it's really important that we don't view this initiative as a continuation of the human rights initiative.
The Refugees United initiative and what we will join together about, if you guys select to do this, is not only about 'general' refugee rights, but more to the point a direct method to enable refugees to reconnect with missing family.
The online tool that Refugees United has created is a direct action aid possibility for us bloggers. Our words will not only serve to shape opinion, but be direct aid itself. -
I think that it's a brilliant idea. The plight of the refugee is a global problem resulting from man-made violence as well as natural disasters. I would like to point out that in 2002 the World Health Organization released figures that pointed to 20% globally are Clinically Depressed. That's pandemic and has yet to be addressed. I'm sure greater minds than mine will decide our course of action. But count me in.-
Dano, it is great to have you supporting this.
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The issue was worth enough to discuss..I am willing to share ideas on whatever topic, as long as the for the welfare of everyone in the midst fighting and resolving to live peacefully and equally. I am new in this blogging thing but I want to share my thoughts, and hopefully together with the other blogger we can make a difference...I can suggest One child policy is one topic so interesting to discuss. -
Ohh Sounds like a great idea. And pretty cool too. The idea is just great. well i would suggest issues on global warming or downfall of u.s economy or even preserving water will be good. -
I love the idea of all of us bloggers united for a common cause. My blog is about starvation, malnutrition and illiteracy through out the world and the organizations that are working to help. There are many good charities out there. Is there something else we can unite on along with the refugee issue. I do a lot of research and am willing to do what I can to see this happens. -
I can support the refugee topic after I educate myself a bit more. I do have a question though. Is it really possible that most refugees have access to the Internet? I guess when I think of refugees, I'm still picturing "tent cities". I would also be very interested in writing about the economy if that topic is selected.
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If the majority is going toward the refugee topic, I'll respectfully drop here. Thanks for letting me be part of the discussion, though.
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Since this is for ideas on what could be used as a topic, we could all blog about conservation, what we could do to conserve energy, and our environment. We could also blog about possible ways of finding new and different energy sources other then fossil fuel. Ways we could improve our living conditions all over the earth, yet not destroy the earth's atmosphere at the same time.
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At first I thought the refugee topic, as vital as it is, was too limiting for my taste. Then I realized that so many of the other topics that are being suggested form the root cause of the refugee crisis. We're already seeing climate refugees from the changes brought about by global warming, for example, along the "usual" contributors of war, intolerance, economic injustice (food, energy costs). In other words, it's all connected. There's plenty of room to write about these subjects with refugees as a focus.-
I wonder if writing about those displaced during the massive flooding in the midwest would fall under both the refugee topic and global warming?
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I think so - That's exactly what I was referring to.
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Yes, thinking refugees, can allow bloggers to address a wide variety of local issues anywhere in the world. These include human rights, war, the environment, failed economies, or natural disasters, for example.
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@ozzieblackcat yes refugees do have access to the internet... I hear from South Africans constantly via email. My day job is to work with immigration clients. We advertise all over the world and lately we have been getting inquiries and requests for help in South Africa from individuals that have incredible stories to tell. I don't want to solicit the law firm I am at, but To BC and to Refugees United I will definitely participate in this noble and admirable endeavor. Christopher, I will write to you tomorrow from our law firm and see what we can do to help your cause directly perhaps by adding your site as a link.
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Christopher, I left you three messages this morning in private shouts for contact info. @Jan4insight.... very insightful message and right on target!
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Do something that isn't politically correct this time.
Another words don't go green instead discuss something more serious say...child abuse.-
Excuse me, but why is concern about taking care of the planet not serious? We can't just throw it away and get another one.
I don't think anyone here was ranking problems, as in "mine's more important than yours." In fact, I think the discussion was trending towards more recognition that all of these problems are serious ... and allowing the individual blogger decide where to focus. -
There was a campaign against abuse last year. it was cast in such broad terms in order to let people choose their own thing. I also saw many posts against child abuse in the human rights campaign this spring. Finally, it is possible to focus on child abuse with a refugee subject. It just might require learning about child abuse in places or situations you hadn't thought of.
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@jan4insight I actually came in to suggest some "go green" type of movement myself. However, I'm amenable to anything selected by a majority rule. The latest one was a big success and we're still getting traffic actually from the post - so count us in!-
We are going to have refugees caused by environmental catastrophes, so a green topic is still possible in conjunction with a refugee theme.
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It is a very wise decision to cover the problems of refugees and creating ways to work and help through bloggers.
I understand that our work has to be useful to humanity.
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Yes, let's add our help to this cause. Who among us is really exempt from the possibiity.
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