If you have not heard of Second Life yet, expect to start hearing about it from now on. Second Life is a rapidly growing virtual world in which users from all over the globe are able to meet and interact each other in a startlingly real-looking environment, forming virtual communities and events not possible within “real life.”

Today, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) held a protest in Second Life as part of the Deine Stimme Gegen Armut (Your Voice Against Poverty) campaign in the lead up to the upcoming G8 summit in Germany. ONE is the American component of GCAP. The protest was organized by NETZ, a Germany-based non-profit that works in cooperation with Bangladeshi NGO’s to help that country’s fight against poverty. What good does a virtual protest do? For starters, one of Germany’s most-read newspapers has already decided to do a story on the Second Life GCAP event.

ONE’s presence was well-received and evident to all at the event. Our specially designed virtual kiosk was placed at multiple spots on location and was joined by a few of us ONE supporters proudly wearing our ONE T-shirts and ONE bands. They were happy to see the event had international support and even played their streaming audio speech in English a couple times for the ONE members in attendance. If you are already Second Life residents, contact ONE Binder in-world to get plugged into ONE’s growing Second Life community.

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