20th Day of Tim Martins Hunger Strike
dana amma day | 06.06.2009 17:17
My name is Dana and I am an accidental tv journalist.
I set up Positive TV 3 years ago to address the balance of the news agenda which I felt was so set in the negative and was not addressing
the many positive breakthroughs and solutions that address the global emergency we find ourselves in.
However:
On Tuesday 2nd June I was reporting on the launch of The Global Peace Index 2009 that was launching at Central Hall, interviewing Steve Killelea, the businessman and philanthropist who as an individual set up and funded the index as up until this time in history Peace had not been measured.
I felt that this index was a positive solution towards working towards peace. Peace has never been more critical as population growth and security of resources of food and water become ever more stretched.
Positive TV then went out and about Westminster to interview people about peace, whilst out and about I literally stumbled upon Tim Martin- an British Aid Worker on his 16th day of hunger strike in bed in Parliament square. I was very shocked to find him there a bright young man who having witnessed the horror in Sri Lanka has returned to England to raise awareness to the terrible atrocities that are going on there. In a last desperate act of awareness he is now close to losing his own life.
His demands to end his hunger strike are listed below.
I am not an authority on war, but I am a compassionate human being and can not understand why the situation and terrible atrocities that are taking place today in Sri Lanka, particularly to orphaned and female children are being swept under the carpet by the international community.
I can not, having discovered Tim in Parliament square let him die with out his message being heard.
So I have recorded this plea to reach out to those who are in position to speak with him or help him with his requests, which seem very reasonable to me.
For me the Sri-Lankan conflict is at the heart of the matter of the crisis in humanity and that this issue needs to be urgently addressed on a matter of Human Rights issues and to look for solutions in such conflict resolutions.
Please can you share my appeal - I would so appreciate your urgent help and support on the matter
Many thanks
I set up Positive TV 3 years ago to address the balance of the news agenda which I felt was so set in the negative and was not addressing
the many positive breakthroughs and solutions that address the global emergency we find ourselves in.
However:
On Tuesday 2nd June I was reporting on the launch of The Global Peace Index 2009 that was launching at Central Hall, interviewing Steve Killelea, the businessman and philanthropist who as an individual set up and funded the index as up until this time in history Peace had not been measured.
I felt that this index was a positive solution towards working towards peace. Peace has never been more critical as population growth and security of resources of food and water become ever more stretched.
Positive TV then went out and about Westminster to interview people about peace, whilst out and about I literally stumbled upon Tim Martin- an British Aid Worker on his 16th day of hunger strike in bed in Parliament square. I was very shocked to find him there a bright young man who having witnessed the horror in Sri Lanka has returned to England to raise awareness to the terrible atrocities that are going on there. In a last desperate act of awareness he is now close to losing his own life.
His demands to end his hunger strike are listed below.
I am not an authority on war, but I am a compassionate human being and can not understand why the situation and terrible atrocities that are taking place today in Sri Lanka, particularly to orphaned and female children are being swept under the carpet by the international community.
I can not, having discovered Tim in Parliament square let him die with out his message being heard.
So I have recorded this plea to reach out to those who are in position to speak with him or help him with his requests, which seem very reasonable to me.
For me the Sri-Lankan conflict is at the heart of the matter of the crisis in humanity and that this issue needs to be urgently addressed on a matter of Human Rights issues and to look for solutions in such conflict resolutions.
Please can you share my appeal - I would so appreciate your urgent help and support on the matter
Many thanks
dana amma day
e-mail:
dana@positivetv.tv