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MercyCorps

05/17/2013 Nativegrl77

Double the difference you can make for children in need.

Photo: Gerry Ellis/Mercy Corps

Every gift before May 30th will be matched, $1 for $1!

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President Obama at General Assembly

09/26/2012 Nativegrl77

Sep 25, 2012 by whitehouse

In remarks to the UN General Assembly, President Obama discusses a vision of leadership that protects our people and promotes our values around the world, and makes a powerful case for the world to come together to reject extremism and advance our common interests. September 25, 2012.

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Stop the African hunger games …Baaba Maal – Avaaz.org

06/19/2012 Nativegrl77

18 million people are desperate for food in Africa’s drought-struck Sahel, but urgent appeals for help are being met with deafening silence by governments worldwide. Senegalese musician Baaba Maal has started a petition to get the US, Japan, France and Germany to pledge their fair share of aid. Let’s join him— sign the urgent petition below and sound the massive alarm needed to shake these leaders into action:

My name is Baaba Maal …

I’m a Senegalese musician writing with a personal plea for help. I live in Africa’s drought-struck Sahel region where 18 million people are on the brink of disaster, including 1 million children at risk of starvation. But our urgent appeals for help are being met with deafening silence. Only a targeted and overwhelming demand for action can stop this catastrophe from turning deadly.

The UN says millions of lives could be destroyed unless $1.5 billion in aid is channeled in immediately, but governments have pledged less than half the required sum. The countries who can make all the difference are the US, Japan, France and Germany, but they’re stalling — that’s why I started a petition on Avaaz‘s Community Petitions website to appeal to the world for help.

In days, world leaders will gather in Brussels to discuss the Sahel — if they decide right there and then to pledge their fair share, we can avert disaster. Sign this urgent petition now — Avaaz, Africans Act 4 Africa, and Oxfam will deliver it in a coordinated stunt when we reach 1 million signatures:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_grain_sacks_are_empty/?biEWLbb&v=15195

Terrible drought, political unrest, and sky high food prices have wreaked havoc on an area the size of the US, stretching from Senegal in the west all the way to Sudan in the east. People here are doing everything they can to survive, but the crisis has hit so hard that it’s difficult to stay hopeful. I’ve seen women and children trying to grow food in patches of land that are bone dry. They know that people are talking about what is happening in the Sahel, but they don’t know if aid will ever arrive.

The UN has only received 43 percent of the $1.5 billion needed — it’s a shortfall of gargantuan proportions. But this gap must be filled, and can be filled by the world’s richest countries, if there’s political will. We don’t have much time to avert mass suffering, and I’m determined to speak on behalf of the people here until they get the help they need.

The world has turned a blind eye to crises like this before, but this time we can make the difference between life and death by forcing our governments to respond. Sign this urgent petition now:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_grain_sacks_are_empty/?biEWLbb&v=15195

Avaaz members have come together time and time again to respond to natural disasters, saving thousands of lives by ensuring that crucial aid was delivered to Burma, Haiti, Somalia and Pakistan. We have the power to force our leaders to stop idling away in the face of a crisis we can prevent. Let’s stand together now to demand that the world respond to the pleas of the millions living in the vast Sahel region.

With hope and determination,

Baaba Maal, with the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION

A distress call from Africa’s Sahel: Millions might starve (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/world/africa/sahel-hunger/index.html

UN: 18 Million in West Africa to Go Hungry in 2012 (The Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/un-18-million-west-africa-hungry-2012-142100935.html

Meeting of like minds can save the hungry millions in Sahel (Sydney Morning Herald)
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/meeting-of-like-minds-can-save-the-hungry-millions-in-sahel-20120529-1zgm8.html

Baaba Maal: people in the Sahel region need food and water now (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/25/baaba-maal-sahel-food-water

Coming weeks critical to tackle Sahel hunger – U.N. humanitarian chief (AlertNet)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/coming-weeks-critical-to-tackle-sahel-hunger-un-humanitarian-chief

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how much do you know about child soldiers?

05/16/2012 Nativegrl77

May 2012 Newsletter

Interactive Quiz: How much do you know about child soldiers?

Every day, children fight and die in armed conflicts around the world. Who are they? Why do they join? How can we help them reclaim their lives?
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From the Field

Kenya: Planting tea and cultivating positive change

Yemen: A fresh coat of paint can make all the difference

Libya: Benghazi activists honor the price of war

Japan: Biodiesel enterprise fuels economic recovery

Video: Reclaiming Colombia’s children of war

When child soldiers are rescued or escape from Colombia’s armed conflict, it’s too risky for them to go home. Find out how we’re helping them start over.

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Colombia: Capture or surrender earns a second chance

Niger: Breaking the cycle of drought and hunger

Ethiopia: Rebuilding a community water source

Kenya: Kids take charge of their own futures

Mercy Corps in the news

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Palestine: Emma Ruby-Sachs – Avaaz.org

09/08/2011 Nativegrl77

The Palestinian bid for recognition is down to the wire — and if we join forces in the next 72 hours we could get the crucial EU leadership needed to push it through.

Right now three key countries — France, the UK and Germany — are still wavering under pressure from nay-sayers who are trying to crush this new opportunity for freedom. To flip them we’re planning a spectacular delivery of our 900,000 strong petition with a gigantic 300 sq m Palestinian flag right outside the EU Council meeting. We also need to run 3 urgent public opinion pollsthat clearly show these leaders that their people support recognition, and flood the media with full page ads.

Our 900,000 strong campaign for Palestinian independence has caught fire across the globe. But to win the crucial votes in key EU countries, we need to deliver our message of hope for Palestine spectacularly in the next 72 hours — and just 10,000 small donations can make it happen. Click below to chip in:

We can grab the attention of these leaders, show them a massive public mandate to act and hammer home a message of hope for the Palestinian people. We may not get this chance again — if 10,000 of us make a small donation now, we can rush funds into the powerful public actions we need at this critical moment:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/time_for_palestine/?vl

Recognition of Palestine could open up a new avenue for peace in the region, and give the Palestinian people the support they need for protection under international law. And this support could not come soon enough: a far-right government in Israel is expanding settlement building in the West Bank, and obstructing the possibilities for a viable two-state solution — a solution supported by the majority of citizens in Israel and Palestine.

More than a hundred and twenty countries have already pledged to support Palestinian statehood, but getting key EU countries on board now is crucial to give this bid the backbone and global legitimacy it needs. Public pressure pushed Spain to pledge its support for statehood. Public opinion polls that show that the majority of citizens want their leaders to support the bid and a stunning media-grabbing stunt at the heart of decision-making could shift the three decisive countries: UK, Germany and France.

It’s countdown time. Our actions in the next few days could flip leaders from a collision course to a decision that would usher in an era of freedom and rescue a path to a negotiated settlement. Just a small donation today will make a difference — click below to chip in:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/time_for_palestine/?vl

Over 900,000 of us have already lent our voice to this hopeful call for self-determination and peace. Catapulting that call to key EU leaders, news media and the UN meeting itself is the vital next step. Together, we can drown out the fear and intolerance with a global call for non-violence, diplomacy and recognition for Palestine.

With hope,

Emma, Alice, Antonia, Ricken, Benjamin, Pascal, Diego and the whole Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION

Q&A: Palestinian statehood bid at the UN (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13701636

tries to stall Palestinian statehood bid: report (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-palestinians-israel-usa-idUSTRE78308520110904

Palestinian

Statehood bid ‘papers ready’ (Al Jazeera English)
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201194145150327397.html

Tony

Blair to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders in peace push (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/tony-blair-palestinian-israel-talks

U.S

. Is Appealing to Palestinians to Stall U.N. Vote (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/world/middleeast/04mideast.html

Israel’s

diplomatic drive to block Palestinian UN bid (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israels-diplomatic-drive-to-block-palestinian-un-bid-2296143.html

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