Dear friends,
I have a quick favor to ask of you.
A short video I worked on, Avaaz.org's "Stop the Clash of Civilizations," is a finalist in an online nonprofit video competition. We need your vote to help us win. Winning the competition will help us further our mission of promoting peace talks in the Middle East and raising public awareness about the issue. Talk is rising of a 'clash of civilizations'. But the problem isn't culture, it's politics - from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it. So where to start?
Watch the video (entry number 1) and vote for us here: http://dogooder.tv/contest.aspx
You have to register before you can vote online, but it's quick and painless. Or you can vote with your cell phone by texting ntcvideo1 to 75528 (no registration necessary). Winners will be announced on April 5.
Our video is one of 6 finalists. If you have time, take a look at our competition's videos too - they are all very well-done and support good causes. All six finalists will be screened at the Nonprofit Technology Network Conference (http://www.nten.org/ntc-video) in Washington DC early April.
Thanks to everyone who has supported this project.
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Comments (2)
dont forget to include "big business" in your campagin against....they run politics and media after all.
Posted by anne | 03/21/07
Posted on 03/21/07
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
Mar. 20, 2007
TAMPA -- Today is Day 58 of Dr. Sami Al-Arian's hunger
strike for
justice, in which he has lost 53 pounds, or 25 percent
of his body
weight. Medical experts say this is a particularly
critical week for
Dr. Al-Arian health-wise. Supporters are asked to
continue writing
letters to officials: http://www.freesami alarian.com/
help.htm
Those interested in writing Dr. Al-Arian can do so at:
Dr. Sami Al-Arian (#40939-018)
FMC BUTNER
FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. BOX 1600
BUTNER, NC 27509
St. Petersburg Times
March 20, 2007
Gaunt Al-Arian shocks family
http://www.sptimes. com/2007/ 03/20/Hillsborou
gh/Gaunt_ Al_Arian_ shocks.s
html
By Meg Laughlin
Sami Al-Arian has been on a hunger strike for 58 days
to protest
being held beyond his prison sentence. On a water-only
diet, he has
lost 53 pounds. The former University of South Florida
professor can
no longer walk, speaks in a whisper and trembles
constantly because
of low body temperature, said family members who
visited him last
weekend at a
federal medical prison in Butner, N.C.
"We were stunned when we saw him. His deterioration is
shocking,"
said Al-Arian's son, Abdullah, 26.
Al-Arian, 49, is bedridden in an isolation cell. A
nurse checks on
him twice a day, and a videocamera records his every
move, say
officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Three
hot meals are
placed in his cell every day, for two hours at a time.
Then they are
removed, untouched.
"We will not let him die. We will force feed him
before that
happens," said Nikki Credic of the U.S. Marshals
Service.
But Al-Arian's family is calling his condition dire.
"We are extremely worried for his life," said his
wife, Nahla.
Al-Arian went on the strike Jan. 22 to protest being
held in jail
beyond his sentence because he refused to testify
before a Virginia
grand jury.
In May he pleaded guilty, as part of a plea agreement,
to helping
associates of a terrorist group with nonviolent
activities. The plea
agreement came after a jury acquitted Al-Arian of
eight terrorism-
related charges and deadlocked on nine lesser counts.
While no explicit language was written into the plea
agreement about
Al-Arian's exemption from testimony before a grand
jury in Virginia,
federal prosecutors in Tampa agreed with defense
attorneys that Al-
Arian would not have to testify in Virginia. That
verbal agreement
was recorded in court transcripts. Seven months later,
he was
transferred to a Virginia jail and ordered to testify.
Al-Arian, who is 6 feet tall, weighed 202 pounds when
the hunger
strike began.
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Posted by MB | 03/22/07
Posted on 03/22/07