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Save Our Selves
Save Our Selves is the name of a group of activists organized to raise awareness of global climate change. They are the organizers of the July 2007 Live Earth concerts. The group was founded by Kevin Wall, and includes as major partners former United States Vice President of the United States, Vice President Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection, MSN and Control Room (film), Control Room, a concert production company producing Live Earth. See also *''An Inconvenient Truth'' *Hurricane Katrina *Individual and political action on climate change, Action on climate change *Kyoto Protocol *Politics of global warming External links Save Our Selves - Who we are Live Earth website National Geographic Society, National Geographic July 6, 2007 Climate change organizations based in the United States {{climate-change-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Activists
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range from mandate building in a community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage (or boycott) of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes. Activism may be performed on a day-to-day basis in a wide variety of ways, including through the creation of art (artivism), computer hacking (hacktivism), or simply in how one chooses to spend their money ( economic activism). For example, the refusal to buy clothes or other merchandise from a company as a protest against the exploitation of workers by that company could be considered an expression of activism. However, the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
