Taking it to the street
One of the biggest creative challenges we face is finding ways to adequately express the spirit and strength of our amazing membership — And more than this, to maximize the impact of member voices to push for the positive changes we are all seeking to achieve. Combine this scenario with a message-saturated G8 Summit and you’ll understand why we’ve had to find something extraordinary to do next week… Ahem, cue Tweet the Street…
We have been hard at work with some tech wizards to create the ONE Street Tweeter – a clever robot that can print short tweets, tweetetes if you will, (40 characters or less) on road surfaces. Yes – we want to take your messages on the road. Better still, if we print your message we’ll even send a pic of it back to you to share it with your friends.
So, what are you waiting for? You guys are more creative than any of those Mad Men types. Just tweet a message in your own words (no more than 40 characters including spaces) to encourage, rouse, and hustle the G8 to act now on hunger and poverty.
Tweet your message to @ONEStreetTweet or if you don’t do that sort of thing then you can type your message into the box below.
Let’s hit the road and get heard.
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11/05/2012 at 11:24 am
Awesome Idea
11/05/2012 at 11:24 am
Please Break the Cycle of Hunger and Poverty!!!
11/05/2012 at 11:28 am
Let’s not abandon all human race! They need us to get more strength!
11/05/2012 at 11:33 am
Dear G8, can you still sleep at night when you see starving African mothers holding onto their under fed children infested with flies and hunger screaming from their faces. It is heart breaking to know we in the western World exploit these people and their land. God expects good humans too help the needy, can you show courage and make a stand to help those in desperate need and are dying a slow death because of lack of food. Please I beg you please MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
You will be blessed in heaven for making the difference.
Kind regards,
Barbara Strydom
11/05/2012 at 11:39 am
See the dead end for hunger and poverty.
11/05/2012 at 11:40 am
somthing realy needs to be done starvation and poverty needs to come to an end
11/05/2012 at 11:41 am
Use the money to things that really matter.
11/05/2012 at 11:44 am
Prima di tutto i bambini!
11/05/2012 at 12:42 pm
It’s a robbery not a recession redistribute the wealth now!
11/05/2012 at 12:44 pm
The redistribution of wealth is overdue ease poverty & hunger now!
11/05/2012 at 1:14 pm
Help us feed humanity no more greed!
11/05/2012 at 1:24 pm
Help¡¡¡¡
11/05/2012 at 2:19 pm
Stop hunger & poverty we need a happy world have you forgoten your roots? Awake
11/05/2012 at 2:20 pm
The earth is our ark. Don’t let it sink!
11/05/2012 at 2:28 pm
Necesitamos conciencia profunda de la aniquilacion por omision que hacemos de la raza humana y de todo ser vivo. recapaciten poderosos miembros del G8 estan en una posicion privilegiada para ser recordados como aquellos que restauraron el orden mundial y millones de ninos que hoy estan a punto de morir seran salvados. gracias
GUILLERMO AGUILAR
11/05/2012 at 2:59 pm
STOP thinking about U and START thinking abut US.
11/05/2012 at 3:10 pm
Let’s reverse the 80/20 trend to ensure a future for all.
11/05/2012 at 4:09 pm
The cost of the G8 gathering would probably feed scores of hungry mouths or provide life saving vaccines to needy children or would have provided primary health to expecting mothers and children. The world is looking at you G8. Do not just talk, do something please.
11/05/2012 at 4:13 pm
LET’S COLLECT LESS AND SHARE MORE
11/05/2012 at 4:51 pm
No mas riqueza a costa de los pobres
11/05/2012 at 6:19 pm
Please put human and environmental interest above corporate greed. Change the financial system to stop the spiral of crises and end the power of the banks. Then there will be plenty of food, wealth and health for everyone on the planet!
11/05/2012 at 10:29 pm
It is your fiduciary responsibility! Care for the World! Set the Example! Provide a Solution and Act on it Now!
End the World of Hunger and Poverty!
11/05/2012 at 11:37 pm
Dear summit leaders
I wrote this in 1968 at school, we are now 44 years on and this is still happening, please, please don’t let another 44 years go by without something being addressed:
A small boy lies upon the ground
He wants to know
What wrong has he done
That he must feel this way?
His stomach swollen,
Skin so taut across his boney body.
He lies ther not daring to move
Lest his last breath is taken now.
From far away a noise is heard
Of trucks moving along the bumpy path
But, the boy lies motionless and still,
He has drawn his last breath,
And one so young has died.
How many more have to die before you realise how lucky you are and how little you would have to give to enable the gift of life to be given to everyone.
Please take off your blinkers and walk in the path of no hunger and poverty for all human kind.
12/05/2012 at 12:55 am
We are the lucky nations and have a responsibility to help those less fortunate. Human rights is for everyone – not just the privileged.
12/05/2012 at 1:49 am
To whom much is given much is expected in return
12/05/2012 at 8:05 am
Dear G8, can you still sleep at night when you see starving African mothers holding onto their under fed children infested with flies and hunger screaming from their faces. It is heart breaking to know we in the western World exploit these people and their land. God expects good humans too help the needy, can you show courage and make a stand to help those in desperate need and are dying a slow death because of lack of food. Please I beg you please MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
A small boy lies upon the ground
He wants to know
What wrong has he done
That he must feel this way?
His stomach swollen,
Skin so taut across his boney body.
He lies ther not daring to move
Lest his last breath is taken now.
From far away a noise is heard
Of trucks moving along the bumpy path
But, the boy lies motionless and still,
He has drawn his last breath,
And one so young has died.
How many more have to die before you realise how lucky you are and how little you would have to give to enable the gift of life to be given to everyone.
Please take off your blinkers and walk in the path of no hunger and poverty for all human kind.
You will be blessed in heaven for making the difference!
Ghulam Sabir Hussain
president
Faroogh-E-Taleem Society
12/05/2012 at 8:08 am
To G8 Leaders :
What are you waiting to act and break the cycle of hunger and poverty ? Do you not feel shame for ignoring this tragedy ?……Time to Act giving preference to the most important…… If you are not able to see the reality of children and women of Africa, resign from your posts !!!! is more than enough of using public money for personal enjoyment !!!!!
Many of us are waiting for your reaction!!!!……! Now !!!
12/05/2012 at 12:11 pm
Dear G8 Leaders : Let’s carry each other !
12/05/2012 at 12:54 pm
Dear G8 member and Leaders,
It is now time ro take action, words are cheap. If individuals such as volunteers, doctors without frontiers can help ease the pain ever slighty IMAGINE all the posibilities if Nations would stand and work togehter with one commom goal to ease and then put an end to this ongoing plague that is hunger and poverty. With all the existing knowledge and technologies that the more fortunate Nations have at there disposal it is mind boggling that so many human beings are still suffering.
12/05/2012 at 1:36 pm
Those that can are those that should.
12/05/2012 at 1:39 pm
C,est bon idee. Et dirigants les pays plus riches et plus puissant doivent comprendre, que tous les gens de monde doivent le chance pour vie digne!
12/05/2012 at 1:40 pm
We are here!!!!
12/05/2012 at 1:41 pm
Power, greed,egos,= hunger and misery. We have the power to end this. You have no excuse.
12/05/2012 at 1:42 pm
It is time for our leaders to stop increasing the wealth of a few by permitting the destriction of the planet. We inherited our world from our ancestors, and have systematically destroyed it in the process of acquiring wealth for the few, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population in abject poverty. What will be left for our descendants when this generation has stripped the planet of its natural resources, poisoned its air and water and created a climate change that may already too late to rectify. This generation will be looked on as one of greed and devastation of the common good. This is our legacy.
12/05/2012 at 1:42 pm
……break the cycle of injustice!!!!!!!!
12/05/2012 at 1:46 pm
Money doesn’t talk; it swears
12/05/2012 at 1:48 pm
Have a good dinner, G8, a large part of this world hasn’t!
12/05/2012 at 1:51 pm
Non ignorate i più deboli. La civiltà si misura con la loro condizione ed è a essa direttamente proporzionale.
12/05/2012 at 1:54 pm
Break the cycle of hunger and poverty!!
12/05/2012 at 1:54 pm
Os cidadãos do mundo querem uma sociadade moderna de igualdade de direitos Eu faço um apelo ao G8 para olhar para os paises mais pobres do planeta os cidadãos desses paises procuram uma vida digna
12/05/2012 at 2:04 pm
Children dying of hunger??Shame on us!!
12/05/2012 at 2:04 pm
To G8 leaders,
I feel you are not interested in ending poverty, misery and war. Your interest is power over others, control of their lives. Therefore you are very wrong. You are not fit to wield any power and should be removed from a degraded office. You do not represent me and you must not represent no one !
Since you do not fulfil your duties I ask you to resign.
JQ
12/05/2012 at 2:07 pm
Come on, G8…
Millions of people are dying every day all over the world cause of Hunger and millions more are starving and suffering cause of poverty.
Will you pay more attention to the Hunger and Poverty?
Thank you in advance.
12/05/2012 at 2:13 pm
I’m an African in Africa and as much as all I want to say is a big thank you I want to add that we don’t neccesarily need to redistribute wealth, we can actually generate more. We can invest in the greatest resourse known to us yet, us! Human resources is probably the only resource on earth with an infinite potential but its the one lacking basic resources today like these potentials cannot be harnessed.
12/05/2012 at 2:16 pm
Have a heart, have a conscience, when you sit down to dine on sumptious food at the G8 summit, when your bellys are full and your thirst is quenched, think that there are people dying and suffering right now from hunger, disease and poverty. Some one’s son, daughter, sister, brother, father or mother. Like your own family, look after the world’s family, make a difference now.
12/05/2012 at 2:16 pm
Peace Freedom and Total Equality For All.
12/05/2012 at 2:21 pm
Let’s push the Generous 8 (G8) into making things happen before they turn into Greedy 8. Let the world be fed – NOW!
12/05/2012 at 2:21 pm
Were these leaders doing that pathetic job in a normal business, they’d be fired on the spot for incompetence. They’re still there, even if the faces change.
12/05/2012 at 2:23 pm
What if it were your daughter dying of hunger?
12/05/2012 at 2:26 pm
capitalism is a perversion of the moral