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One of our goal at the Sama Gazette (if not our goal number one) is to raise awareness of the plights facing many people around the world: human rights issues, social, hunger and environmental issues, starvation and poverty. We hope our support is contributing to mobilize people, as we have already seen positive results among our readers who are actively supporting campaigns and joined several meetings, in France and in the United States. From RAISE ...

Ante Up For Africa is a non-profit organization founded by Don Cheadle, Annie Duke and Norman Epstein dedicated to raising money and awareness for Africans in need. The 2010 Ante Up For Africa Celebrity-Charity Poker Tournamenton Saturday, July 3 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas offers a special opportunity as the only event of its kind where the general public can participate. About the event (read more): Ante Up For Africa, a ...

The Run for Congo Women has been working to raise awareness and funds in the U.S. and abroad to support Congolese women. As you already know if you read the Sama Gazette, we support the Women for Women campaign and we posted about the Run for Congo Women in San Francisco. Among the runners in San Francisco on June 12, 2010 was Carissa Weir from Oakland, California. A former actress and now a ‘filmmaker in the making’ according to her short ...

Father’s Day is an annual holiday that recognizes fathers and fatherhood. And unlike Mother’s Day which is celebrated on the second Sunday in May (May 8 this year) in the United States, in February in Norway, on May 30 in France and in Indonesia in December, Father’s Day is more widely celebrated the third Sunday of June. So we decided to celebrate Father’s Day and replace our weekly rendezvous Twitter Sunday with an article ...

Almost a year ago, we wrote about Aung San Suu Kyi back to home confinement. On October 6, 2009, Human Rights Watch, Info Birmanie, FIDH, Amnesty International, SOS pour Aung San Suu Kyi and La Ligue des Droits de L’homme called for a meeting at the Hotel de Ville of Paris: Aung San Suu Kyi: candles in Paris tonight. Many Sama Readers living in Paris joined the event and did light candles to support Suu Kyi. Now Sama Readers from New York City can ...

This week-end we had a lively discussion at the Sama Gazette about why the Obama administration but also other administrations in Europe seem to have forgotten their promises concerning Darfur. Two articles published last week originated this discussion : an article/op-ed posted on USA Today by John Prendergast: U.S. must help stop Sudan’s slow-motion war and The value of sticks and carrots for Sudan published on Enough Project website. Many ...

NYC, London, Milan, Berlin and Paris: 5 cities. 120 hours of racing. 24 hour relays. (NIKE) RED’s TIED TOGETHER relay race is taking place in 5 cities, it started with NYC, today it was in Berlin and it will be in Paris tomorrow. This event is the occasion to help raise awareness about AIDS in Africa and to meet with ‘tied’ friends. About the event (from the Facebook page): We want you to join us for (NIKE) RED’s TIED TOGETHER relay race. ...

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa, and it is the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. Billions of Football fans are desperate to watch the FIFA World Cup and we personally know several of them who will not miss a single match. But the 2010 FIFA World Cup goes far beyond the sporting event. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor and Master of Public ...

Run for Congo Women (RFCW) is a global run/walk movement benefiting Women for Women International‘s Congo program, and we already mentioned it several times on the Sama Gazette. On March 10, 2010, we published Max Dana‘s post: International Women’s Day: Extraordinary Women in which she focused on the courageous and amazing women fighting for women’s rights. She paid tribute to four of these women: Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO, Women ...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and VII Photo present “Starved for Attention” a multimedia campaign exposing the neglected and largely invisible crisis of childhood malnutrition. The campaign aims to rewrite the story of malnutrition through a series of multimedia documentaries that seamlessly blend photography and video from some of the most accomplished and award-winning photojournalists working today. About the campaign ...