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Here is the original message that I recieved, as a forward from A.V. Koshy
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...
Tell us about your impressions from watching the video, and voting in support of it. This is an open forum for disscussion about this experience.
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Comment by Jeremy Laird Hogg on April 29, 2010 at 9:26pm
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Done dilli. And let my point of of collab go everyone spreading that particular word. Including Iyamuremye Jean de Dieu's who send me a message, and A.V.Koshy who got the ball rolling.
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Comment by Paul Holze on April 29, 2010 at 9:46pm
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done!
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Comment by Jason Hill on April 29, 2010 at 9:48pm
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A very good video. The disparities between countries are profound and of course in this case we have a country that is lacking in so many areas that it can't exploit its own resources effectively. That allows a country that has vast economic assets yet few agricultural resources to simply "acquire" these resources from someplace too poor to say no to money. A partnership that allows efficient crop techniques could have allowed all of the populace to be fed and excess to go for export but that was not seen as "profitable". Nationalizing resources is at times the only way to "reset" these types of disparities.
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Comment by Gabriel Martin on April 29, 2010 at 9:55pm
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Awesome guys, thanks for the link to the video within evoke.
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Comment by Jonathan Bacon on April 29, 2010 at 11:59pm
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Done! Thank you for spreading the word!
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Comment by Christian Brumm on April 30, 2010 at 6:37am
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Thanks for sharing, spreading the word!
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Comment by sunnydupree on April 30, 2010 at 7:01am
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and I hepped!!!!
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