ONE International is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.
Their current campaign is this Petition, calling on World Leaders to urgently provide the full funding that the UN has identified as necessary to help people in the Horn of Africa and to keep their promises to deliver the long term solutions which could prevent crises like this happening again.
So far, ONE has achieved 96% of the goal of 160,000 signatures. I've added mine. Please will you add yours.
Thank you.
And as a further thank you, I'd like to invite you to watch +Daria Musk's Hangout Concert 3 on Saturday night. Daria is a great supporter of ONE International as well as a fine singer/songwriter, given to singing as long as a) there are people to listen and b) her voice holds out - the last Hangout Concert lasted Seven-and-a-half hours... So signing the ONE Petition is also a way to pay forward for getting a free concert ;-)
You'll be able to see this one via embedded youtube.live players either here on G+ or on shh... the 'f'word... or on youtube itself or at hangoutparty.com. You'll be able to share the player and/or the links on your own pages or blogs or sites so as to invite your friends along. And, if you're on G+, you could even get into Daria's own Hangout and chat with her between songs!
I'll post full links on Saturday in the run up to the concert and during it.
Lets enjoy some live music together and tip this Petition over it's target. They're only 4% away from it...
http://act.one.org/sign/horn_of_africa/
*edited because I accidentally published before I'd put the title or the links in... Need... more... sleep ;-)
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Thursday, 18 August 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Blame And Recrimination
Blame And Recrimination
(A Protest Song in a Reggae Style, inspired by Life, Aswad, Benefits, Disabilities, Prejudice - and a new typeface called Syncopate, which doesn't copy over!)
*One-a, Two-a, Three-a*(Nothing but) blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
They say no, no, we don’t wanna see you shirK
So pick up your broken body, take it to work
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
They say, you ain’t sick cause I seen you online
And that is the proof that you’re perfectly fine
They say no, no, we don’t wanna see you shirK
So pick up your broken body, take it to work
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
They say, I saw you went out on the town
Gonna report you so the judge sends you down
They say, you ain’t sick ‘cause I seen you online
and that is the proof that you’re perfectly fine
They say no, no, we don’t wanna see you shirK
So pick up your broken body, take it to work
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
But they don’t see how we crawl up the stair
The hour it took just to comb out our hair
How we don’t eat if there’s no-one to cook
The struggle to turn over the page of a book
That we need both hands just to pick up a glass
Have to ask for help to clean our own
Aah-ah-ah-aah,
Apparently the government gives us all a free car,
And electric wheelchairs and loads of money
The latest computer and a plasma TV
They send lots of people to do all our chores,
To cater every whim and to open doors
We take three holidays every year,
Expenses all paid, free wine and free running beer
And just to make sure that we never feel cold
They insulate our houses with 18carat gold! Hah!!!
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
Nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
No, nothing but blame and recrimination
On the disabled of our nation
Copyright (2011) vests in the writer here known as Rockhorse. The lyrics may be used for non-commercial purposes only but credit must always be given. For any other purpose, please request permission before use.
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