Darfur`s rape camp

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has indicted Sudan's President Omar Al Bashir for genocide. He is charged with killing hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan and its Darfur region, and corralling the surviving women and girls into terrifying camps where they are being quietly and systematically raped until their peoples are destroyed.

To help the ICC arrest Omar Al Bashir and hold him accountable for the crimes he had commited, and donate for help of the people in Darfur, please click here

I can't believe that these things still exist in our days.

Climate Change Red Alert

Avaaz.org: Petition to world leaders: Climate change is the greatest threat facing our world today--and we are almost out of time to stop it. You must tackle this problem now, decisively and together. Start working toward a new global agreement this year. Set binding global targets for emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. Take bold action immediately--and we will join our efforts with yours.

Click here to take action.

Let`s try to help Iraq

Dear Reader,

Petition to US, Iraqi, Syrian, and Iranian leaders meeting on May 3rd and 4th

Avaaz is launching a major advertising and text-message campaign inside Iraq this week to bring Iraqi voices to this decisive meeting. As citizens around the world, let's join our voices with theirs to end this war -- sign the petition calling for negotiations and a withdrawal of US troops here:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan

Stop Global Warming - i`m making a difference

For all Live Messenger users, I guess you have noticed that some of the users are displaying the i'm icon in their nicknames. You can see different codes, such as *help, * naf, *unicef, *komen, etc... There are several organizations you can support.

To join, you can visit this link here, and you will need Windows Live Messenger v. 8.1.

I am currently showing support to the "Stop Global Warming" Organization, I hope more bloggers will post about this, so more people can add the icon to their nickname, and the following will happen.

i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We've set no cap on the amount we'll donate to each organization. The sky's the limit.

Let's make a difference.

Egyptian blogger sentenced to jail. Seriously?

What is this, 1920? I had already posted once about Kareem Amer asking more people to sign the petition to protect freedom of speech in Egypt on November 15. Apparently it didn't really work out for the best.

As I understood, Abdel Kareem Suleiman has been sentenced to four years in prison. He's only 22, a law student, he used his blog to write his thoughts and opinions and say the "unsayable" apparently in Egypt.

Calling his president a dictator led him to being jailed, I can only assume that he was not so wrong. We don't have to fully agree with Kareem Amer, but expressing his opinions on a blog is not really misleading information and disruptive one, he's not obliging anyone to read him, and people have the sanity and maturity to decide whether to believe him or not.

Describing his distaste for his Al Azhar University experience he wrote last October about the religiously-run instution?s "infiltration of public life and its control of people's behavior and its dictation of how to lead their everyday life..."

I wish there will be another court and he will be freed soon.

In November Kareem was detained, interrogated and held in an Alexandria jail without trial for two months before he was charged with spreading information disruptive of public order, incitement to hate Islam and defaming the president of the republic. The arrest had inspired rallies in support of Kareem around in Washington, Rome, Paris, London and Stockholm.

Read more about what happened with Kareem Amer here.

Egyptian blogger in Jail for expression secular views

I learned today about Abdel Karim Suliman Amer - known as “Kareem Amer”, a 22 year old egyptian blogger who has been arrested in Alexandria (Egypt) for speaking his mind in his blog about subjects such as women's rights, religious freedom, and academic freedom.

Take a minute to sign a petition here to protect freedom of speech in Egypt.

12 ways you can join the fight against AIDS

Today, more than 6,000 children will lose a parent to AIDS.

December 1 is World AIDS Day. What will you do?

1. AIDS Test
2. Add your virtual signature or use your mobile phone
3. Build a Caregiver Kit at www.worldvision.org/carekits
4. Sponsor a child
5. virtual AIDS Experience
6. Join World Vision’s Hope Prayer Chain.
7. Learn more about global AIDS by reading these FAQs.
8. Give a gift to help feed children affected by AIDS
9. Join a World Vision AIDS Walk for Orphans. Several are planned, including events in Chicago, Monterey Bay, and Orange County.
10. Acting on AIDS.
11. Host a Global Dinner
12. Join 2006 Global Summit on AIDS and the Church
    

To read more about it, please visit World Vision

Higher Relief Commission: Lebanon needs you

Click on image to view larger size. To help, please visit: www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb

Light a million candles

The innocent victims of Internet child abuse cannot speak for themselves.
But you can.
With your help, we can eradicate this evil trade.
We do not need your money.
We need you to light a candle of support http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/.
We're aiming to light at least One Million Candles by December 31, 2006.
This petition will be used to encourage governments, politicians, financial institutions, payment organisations, Internet service providers, technology companies and law enforcement agencies to eradicate the commercial viability of online child abuse.
They have the power to work together. You have the power to get them to take action.
Please light your candle at lightamillioncandles.com http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/ or send an email of support to light@lightamillioncandles.com.
Together, we can destroy the commercial viability of Internet child abuse sites that are destroying the lives of innocent children.
Kindly forward this email to your friends, relatives and work colleagues so that they can light a candle too.

A small Tribute to Palestine's sufferings

Tell our Leaders to ACT NOW in Israel/Palestine!

The world cannot allow the conflict in Israel/Palestine to continue. Thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded in a conflict which threatens regional and global peace and security. We call on UN Security Council members, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the President and Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority to implement an immediate ceasefire and restart the Middle East peace process.

Help Palestine, click to sign petition: CeasefireCampaign.org

Dahyeh, August 25, 2006. Arofish Stencil Graffiti - Lebanon.

The text in the picture reads:

"When Ramallah, in Palestine, is put under curfew by the Israeli Army, nobody goes outside for days. The streets look completely deserted. But from a tall building, if you look out over the city, you can sometimes see hundreds of many-coloured kites, flown from the roof-terraces by the children of Ramallah. The children you can see here are flying kites to celebrate the spirit of the people of Dahyeh. Some kites you can see are flying away. These are for the children who are no longer here; they are no longer held down to the Earth."

Thanks to our friend Marianna Azouri for the above link.

Click here to view a segment from Arundhati Roy's documentary about the Palestine/Israel history. Click for more.

Click here to view another segment from "Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land", to watch full documentary concerning what is happening in Israel, and how sometimes the media hides it, click here.