Tony, Hi, hope all is well with you. Thanks for following up on the actions. Yes, I think their traditions are just so different that with all the enforced change, solar ovens may just feel very foreign. I think it’s pretty universal to want ” home cooking” but the idea is very creative and people […]
Category: i-ACT 2: Dec 21, 2006 – Jan 4, 2007
i-ACT is Interactive Activism:
- We use technology to reject the standard excuse of inaction – ignorance
- We debunk the myth that ordinary people cannot stop genocide
- We replace statistics with names, faces and stories
The age of bystanders should long have passed – we have entered an age of knowledge which empowers us to protect. Join us as an upstander. Become an i-ACTivist.
Hey Tony: Yes, the role environmental issues play are is also important. You are right in that the immediate solution has to be for the world to act now, and long term issues can be worked on with the assurance that there will people there to live in a balanced environment. Thanks Tony! Hello Isaac: […]
i-ACT returns to refugee Camps on Chad-Darfur border for another 10 days of citizen reporting. Stay tuned for Day 1 on 10 July 2007!
We want to thank all i-ACTivists who will follow Gabriel and Stacey throughout the 14 days. So, we came up with an idea: the 14Day Challenge. Every time you click on a day’s video on the day that it was posted, notice that in the Action box there will be one word in bold. That […]
Marilyn, I know how irrational my fear of flying is. With human conflict, I always feel there is hope of communicating on a human/heart level whereas the skies and mechanics lack that opportunity. I have, however, noticed that flying has become easier and that I’ve actually been able to look out of the window several […]
Dear Stacey’s Mom: Another great quote from Elie Wiesel. Thank you so much. Hi Tere: Yes, even the simple things are pretty complicated out here, and now even more, with all of the chaos on both sides of the border. There are, if you include the Chadians that are now displaced, close to 300,000 diplaced […]
Well, we have reached the end of one road and found ourselves at the all important beginning of another. As we headed to board the plane that would take us back to Abeche we received the sad new of another attack on a camp in Guerreda. Two refugees were killed. We had tried so hard […]
As we were leaving the little village we visited up North, we received sad news about another village, Guereda, and camp we wanted so much to go to, Kounoungo. The day before, there had been fighting between different armed groups. Then, either as a deliberate attack or from being caught in the cross fire, two […]
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It may seem as if we’re saying goodbye – but we’re not! i-ACT continues through the following campaigns: i-ACT Extension: We’re leaving behind communications equipment with refugees so our interaction continues even after Gabriel and Stacey have left. Camp Darfur: Invite Gabriel and Stacey to your school, college or other venue! They’ll set up an […]
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Day 14 from Stacey
Hello Friends, Yesterday, we said goodbye to Yusef and headed north.We journeyed on the smallest plane yet! There was a lot of dust and turbulence as I noticed everyone looking out the window. I asked Ali if everything was normal and he said,”yes.” Turns out, as Ali told me once we landed safely, that we […]