Kicking Off This Year’s OCC!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm | posted by Maisie.PigeonIt’s time to kick off a new year of the ONE Campus Challenge, and we’re calling all students, alumni and college fans to sign up under your favorite school’s banner on our OCC website.
I’m Maisie Pigeon, ONE’s Student Coordinator, and I’ll be managing this year’s OCC—a good-natured competition between universities to see which school will be the national champion at tackling extreme poverty.
Our quarterback is three-time Super Bowl winner and two-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. An active ONE supporter since 2005, Tom visited health clinics, schools and other life-saving projects in Ghana and Uganda in 2007 with ONE. Hear what he has to say about OCC at:
Last year, more than 1,400 colleges and universities competed through seven months of rigorous activism, awareness-raising and action-taking. OCC students signed up over 33,000 ONE members, took 182,000 actions, and convinced campuses, cities and even states to declare their support for ONE. And they engaged candidates including Barack Obama and John McCain on the campaign trail, getting them to pay attention to and talk about global poverty and disease.
In January, the 100 top schools sent representatives to the Power 100 Summit, an exciting three-day conference in Washington, D.C. They heard from leaders of the global anti-poverty movement and influential members of the Democratic and Republican parties, and joined forces through workshops and forums to become smarter, stronger advocates.
This year’s ONE Campus Challenge is going to be even better, but we need you to help your school get started. Sign up here.
Game on!
-Maisie Pigeon and the OCC Team
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Poverty - we’re so over it!
Rock on OCC!
I’ll be rep’n ONE in the grand land of Sports Nutrition!
-Andrea
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
want to unsubscribe as am not currently a student or faculty member at any college r university–just for my info do u hv any members from West Virginia niversity or McCormick Theological Seminary
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I say LETS FIX AMERICA FIRST. THEN TRY AND DO BETTER FOR OTHER C0UNTRIES WHO PROBABLY DON’T EVEN AGREE WITH USSSSS. JUST THINK……. WOULD YOU LIVE WITH IN THERE COUNTRY. IF YOU DID WOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS…. COME ON…………….
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I RATHER BE WORKING AND NOT PAYING LESS ON FRECKING PAYING THESE STUPID TAXES THAT DON’T DO ANYTHING ON HELPING PEOPLE PROGRESSS.. WHEN ALL THEY’RE DOING IS JUST COLLECTING AND SMOKING, DRINKING, F-FING, RECYCLING (GREEN).
October 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am
see that one of your partners is ISLAMIC RELIEF USA which I believe is part of ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE. Counterterrorismblog.org indictes the following:
In CNN’s coverage of the current battles between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah, CNN has provided a list of “aid groups” to assist civilians in the “Mideast crisis”. One of these groups is the Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) group - which has been reported to have disturbing links to Jihadism and recently documented fund-raising links to US State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Hamas.
Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is an international Islamic aid organization that was founded in United Kingdom, in 1984, by Dr Hany El Banna. It was reported in 1999 that IRW’s main UK office received $50,000 from a Canadian group that “the U.S. Treasury Department called ‘a(n Osama) bin Laden front.’ Moscow’s Obshchaya Gazeta has reported that IRW has collected and funneled millions of dollars to the Chechen terrorist rebels in Russia, who have ties to al Qaeda.
In 2004, IRW had a fundraiser at Britain’s Birmingham Central Mosque, which has historically been a source of jihad recruitment, including meetings of Al-Muhajiroun and reported recruitment of UK suicide bombers who attacked Tel Aviv in 2003.
In May 2006, Iyaz Ali, a UK IRW project coordinator, was arrested in Israel for assisting the terrorist group Hamas. Part of IRW coordinator Ali’s activities involved transferring funds and assisting Hamas institutions and groups, including Al Wafa and Al Tzalah, both of which are officially illegal in Israel. When Ali was investigated, incriminating files were found on his computer which showed links to IRW’s ties with illegal Hamas funds in UK and Saudi Arabia, as well as photographs of swastikas, of “Nazi German officials, of Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as many photographs of Hamas military activities.”
I’m concerned that one of your partners has possible links to terrorist organizations.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:57 am
In 2008, isn’t the time right for the United States of America to re-focus attentions and resources to aid and assist the needs of our Domestic poor, and finally begin to give less to those in foreign lands?
October 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.
-Bono
October 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Give LESS???? The US currently gives LESS than 1% of its budget to foreign aid. Also, this is 2008 and everything interconnects. Helping impoverished areas gives terrorism fewer places to breed. Helping develop international business gives America more people to trade with… etc… etc… etc.
I love the Bono quote.
I love Maisie Pigeon and the OCC.
Tom Brady looks pretty good too.