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The International Taking It Global Kids Are Waiting For You to Contact Them!

Joseph Raglione
September 21, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, how many of you young people would like to make new friends here and around the world? And how many of you not so young people would like to check up on the kids and see what they are doing to improve this world? The TIG or Taking It Global network provides opportunities for young people to meet each other from every country and from all walks of life. Today, on World Peace Day, TIG invites you to join them...>

September 13-20, 2009

TakingITGlobal.org is the social network that connects you to the global issues that affect us all!

Here's a quick update on what was "Hot and Happening" at www.tigweb.org recently:

Sprout e-course is open to new applicants!

Are you interested in changing the world? Do you have an idea for a project in your community? The Sprout e-course provides innovative young people (ages 16-30) with a unique way to learn, grow and connect with like-minded leaders in a supportive online environment that encourages your hard work to create a better world. The Sprout journey offers a chance to learn more about community-focused project management, apply your knowledge and skills, interact with an international learning community of youth and an opportunity to turn your idea into reality. What are you waiting for? Sprout your project and change the world.

Applications for participants and e-mentors are due September 27, 2009. For more information please visit www.sproutecourse.org.

Global Wake up Call

The world is sleepwalking into a crisis of epic and historical proportions. On September 21st, over 1,500 events in 112 countries organized by TckTckTck partners and individuals like you will sound the Global Wake Up Call in cities, towns and villages around the world. We need to wake up world leaders to the crisis of climate change by making noise and to show them that the world is ready for a bold climate deal.

You can participate in this epic day by signing the petition, or getting involved in a Global Wake Up Call event near you.

One Web Day and Mozilla service week

The Worldwide Web belongs to everyone. Every person and institution that goes online to connect and create makes a contribution to the evolving Web that is transforming society. To celebrate the September 22nd One Web Day, TIG invites you to discuss how the internet is changing society. We are also promoting Mozilla Service week, where you can apply to donate your time to a worthy initiative or get tech help with your project.


International Day of Peace, September 21st

The United Nations' International Day of Peace - marked every year on September 21 - is a global holiday when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace. Established by U.N. resolution in 1982, "Peace Day" has grown to include millions of people around the world who participate in all kinds of events, large and small. Get involved in events occurring in your community, or check out the Peace Day 24 Hour Global Broadcast featuring Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message for the International Day of Peace; as well as interviews with present and former high level UN officials and other world leaders.

Better the World: The Final Four

Better The World and TakingITGlobal are introducing "The Final Four" contest. It's a way for all of you to not only help us out but give back to your school as well. During the contest (September 1st...to December 31st...2009), the school that earns the most points and picks TIG will make it to the Top Four and win $4,000 for TakingITGlobal plus $2,000 for their school. Members have four months to earn as many points as they can. Just fill in your school in your profile and encourage your classmates to join you!

Shop and support TIG!

Shop.TIGWeb.org is a unique online shopping mall where you shop for the things you would normally buy, from the retailers you would normally choose, and at the prices you would normally pay. Here's the best part: when you shop through this site, you're also supporting TakingITGlobal's programs with an automatic contribution of a portion of your purchases. Install our widgets for IE or Firefox and you'll be automatically supporting TIG when you visit a participating site!

We wish you a wonderful week!

Liam, Francisco, Suzie, Katie, Kat and the entire TakingITGlobal Team!

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!