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30 December 2006

 

From the mouths of babes . . .

posted by Lorenzo 4:12 PM

18 December 2006

 

Update from the StopKillingUs.org Campaign
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A major part of our campaign is to identify where in Africa Climate Change is affecting local populations and their livelihoods. When we do, we ensure that local people wear the SKU t-shirts and we target national and (where possible) international press on the area. This way when the film crews and photographers go there to interview the people most affected, the web site is clearly visible on their shirts. We think this is a very effective way to gain publicity for our cause and to show people the world over what effect Climate Change is having on Africa.

We are pleased to tell you that within ten days of the launch we have sent our T-Shirt Task Force to Ada and Keta on the Eastern seaboard of Ghana where the fishermen and their families are suffering considerably from problems that they believe, as does the Ghana EPA, are related directly to Climate Change.

As part of our mission we have taken TV film crews to those areas from GTV, TV3 and MetroTV together with reporters from other press outlets such as the Daily Graphic newspaper. The first screening was this evening on the TV3 main news and an article in the Graphic will be appearing next week.

Our web site will soon be highlighting the plight of those fishing communities when we re-launch our site in January. In the meantime you can see a clip that was taken in James Town, Accra that we uploaded to YouTube.
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Support StopKillingUs.org and Purchase a T-Shirt

posted by Lorenzo 5:40 PM

01 December 2006

 

StopKillingUs.org Launched Today!
What is this campaign about and what is the meaning of the message? . . . Click on the link above to read the incredible and wonderful story of the StopKillingUs grass-roots campaign in Ghana.

"As the t-shirts were distributed and the banners erected around the city, people started to take ownership of the name and it became their very own symbol of what was wrong in their lives. It seemed to represent a battle cry against all the hardships that Africans face in their daily existence." . . . "To some it was about the fight against diseases like Malaria and AIDS. Some felt it concerned the severe economic hardships endured by so many ordinary people on this continent. To others it represented the struggle against oppression and the fight for freedom and security in other parts of Africa." . . . "Very few people saw in it a political or religious meaning which pleased the organizers as this was never intended to be a political or religious message." . . . So what was the idea behind this campaign? . . . Climate Change. Two words describing a subject that has become a major topic around the world; but maybe not in Africa. Also known as Global Warming it is a phenomenon that has been talked about for the past twenty years but hasn't been taken seriously until today.

Click the link above to see how this serious global problem uniquely affects the continent of Africa . . . and how you can help bring awareness to this pressing issue.

posted by Lorenzo 5:53 PM