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Smile Re: Invisible Children

Meghan's idea to get-involved with the Invisible Children movement is a good one, and everyone on every team should be coming-up with similar ideas on how you can harness the energy of your FIRST team and turn it into social responsive action.

1) Sure, we all know that this is a "suggestion" and not endorsed by FIRST, etc. It is purely a suggestion & thought.

2) In Atlanta, I find no references to who may be actually organizing any events except for the following screenings of the "Invisible Children" movie
-- April 24th 2006 Georgia Tech University Georgia 8pm @ Student Center Ball Room
-- April 25th 2006 University of West GA, Atlanta Georgia 8:00 PM at University of GA, Atlanta
-- April 26th 2006 UGA Tate Center Georgia @ 7pm (Georgia Hall)
-- April 30th 2006 Crossroads Church Georgia 5 pm Youth Group

I don't see anything specific about the actual planned 4/29 sleep-out, but would assume that any FIRST team that cared could VOLUNTARILY join-in this effort, but it's way outside the scope of FIRST (Plus, FIRST has planned its own party with all the other teams in Centennial Park for the evening of 4/29)...

From their Invisible Children's web site:
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – March 28, 2006 – On April 29th, thousands of people across the country will take a new approach to ending a devastating war abroad – they’ll take it lying down. Invisible Children Inc., an organization committed to ending the war in Northern Uganda where children are forced to fight as soldiers, has organized a Global Night Commute in 136 cities across the country. “It’s a moral outrage to see thousands of children that have been abducted, that have been maltreated. They are going through the most horrendous torture by the rebel movement and that same group is now being neglected by the whole international community,” said Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. “I cannot find any other part of the world having an emergency on the scale of Uganda with so little international attention.”. The event promises a wide variety of people from celebrities and legislators to activists and authors. Actress Kristen Bell, from the hit show “Veronica Mars” heard about Invisible Children through co-star Ryan Hansen. “Invisible Children is not only an inspiring movement, but it has forced me to act,” said Kristen Bell. “On April 29th you’ll find me in the streets Night Commuting.”

3) BUT....More importantly, this could be something that you want to take-back to your own home town and plan-out some involvement in this program or something similar (e.g plight of homeless families). Do your homework on how to participate in an event safely and legally. Do your participation in a way that contributes to the goals of FIRST and gracious professionalism.

BEST OF ALL....Just go for it and keep these ideas coming!

ps: Meghan, thanks for bringing this to my attention, I went to their web site and donated funds for one of their bracelets and DVD....
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