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I get this message from Shakwei:

Dear Agent AV,
I write to you today to ask for your help. This week, my blog Visions for Africa urging UE Agents to join the Davos conversation and post a challenge or question to the World leaders
attending the World Economic Forum in Tanzania from 5-7 May 2010 was
featured on the Heros of Living Knowledge.

Agent Edayis (http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/edayis) answered the call and has posted a video question on Ethiopia, a
country whose claim to fame is often Bob Geldof’s 1984 Band Aid and the
country’s seemingly endless requirement for food aid. Agent Edayis
talks about how farms in Ethiopia backed by foreign investors are
growing with abundance, while indigenous farmers subsist on food aid.
She asks how it is possible for the global community to stand silent
and allow this abundance for a (foreign) elite few in a land
notoriously known for famine.

I have had watched the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn2QeqPikBM and, in my opinion, it discusses an issue that needs to be addresses
urgently by these African and World leaders. Although the story
addresses Ethiopia, the same is found in many countries across the
globe. The people most affected are the poor, the voiceless - this is
our chance to speak for them.

How can you help?
There are 18,000 or so UE Agents and I would have liked to send a personal email
in this regard to each of them – but that is neither realistic nor
particularly efficient. But I know by talking to you leaders, I am
talking to all 18,000 Agents. Why do I say this – well probability
suggests that between the 50 or so power generators, you are connected
to Agents, connected to Agents, connected to Agents …. connected to all
18,000 UE Agents. So here is my request to you, we need to get ALL UE
Agents to watch Agent Edayis video and vote for it. More than that, we
need to get the word out to our networks outside UE – on Facebook,
Twitter etc… and make sure as many people as possible know about and
vote to get Agent Edayis’ video in front of the leaders. My humble
request therefore is:
- Put “Vote to get Agent Edayis to the World Economic Forum” as your status on your UE page
- Send your version of this email to your friends in or outside UE about this and ask them to send the mail to their friends.
- Tweeter, Facebook, Ning etc about it - get the word out
- Make suggestions on how else we can get votes for this video

I have emailed this open letter to all top power generators (i.e you),
pasted the link on my UE Status, posted this open letter to all UE
Agents on my blog, sent it to friends and colleagues outside UE, and
posted the link to my Tweetpals. Together we can SPEAK UP for our
brothers and sisters in Ethiopia - will you to help?

Respectfully, Shakwei

Here is the link for those of you who didnt get the message

http://www.google.com/moderator/g/yt/?embed=http://youtube.com/davo...

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