24 Hours for Darfur, a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. The campaign video will explain, but take a look at some of the ones submitted by people all over the world.
The goal is to collect thousands of personal video appeals from people all over the world. All appeals will be displayed on our website and sent directly to participant's political representatives. On September 16, 2007 they will screen 24 hours of rolling footage at a rally in front of the UN headquarters and at smaller events at halls of power throughout the world - all connected through a real-time online broadcast.
Check out the hundreds of videos already submitted! There are videos from US Presidential candidate John Edwards, Author Samantha Power, Actress Mia Farrow, two former United Nations Deputy Secretaries-General, two former United States Deputy Secretaries of State, and private citizens from around the world have already submitted videos. You can out against genocide by submitting a video appeal of your own. Use a webcam to record a video right in your web browser, or upload a video you've recorded offline.
You can learn more about Darfur at the website's education section.
Also that they are asking people to spread the word on Facebook by embedding one of their videos in your profile!
Fabulous! I'm going to put this link in our Shaping Youth blog and forward it to the Harry Potter Alliance youth crew too! (though they may be running it for all I know!)
I'll also announce this at the Women Leaders for the World summit (www.gwln.org) this coming week where I'm one of the U.S. representatives, for we have multiple delegates from Africa ALL seeking ways to get the word out for their projects.
Social media and UGC video are great grassroots picks, so this gives me a wonderful 'proof of concept' to point toward as a viable media model, thanks!
p.s. Our Age of Conversation book has already made close to $4000 for charity in 48 hours, and is #5 on the Lulu bestseller list, yay! (and yes, I'm the token nonprofit) ;-)
Posted by: Shaping Youth | July 18, 2007 at 06:28 PM
I think it's so great that so many blogs are promoting this effort, but I'm really surprised at the little conventional media attention they've received. The deadline is September 16 and there's not much out there. People can promote by DIGGing their promo video here: http://digg.com/videos/educational/24_Hours_for_Darfur/who
Posted by: Natalie | September 05, 2007 at 11:40 AM