Act Now for Sri Lankans...

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Power to the Peaceful

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From Dana Amma Day at Positive TV >>>

Please watch and share my appeal to as many as you can to see if we can reach the international community on this urgent matter:


My appeal is found at you tube link below:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XQtYLpT68M&feature=channel_page

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 - a 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 orphan 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

ACT NOW DIRECTOR, A FORMER AID WORKER, ON HUNGER STRIKE IN LONDON

Tim Martin, a former aid worker and the Campaign Director of Act Now, is on an indefinite hunger strike outside Parliament, London since Monday 18th May. Tim is calling upon US President Obama to intervene in the crisis in Sri Lanka and has presented a clear list of demands to protect the civilian population from further devastation. Tim’s full letter to the American president was delivered to the American Embassy on the first day of his hunger strike.

www.act-now.info

See also Tim's appeal to the international community:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcN95rS_mAQ

Dana Amma Day
CEO, Positive TV

In covering all aspects of human activity, Positive TV looks to broaden the global conversation and raise the questions on what sort of future you want to create. At a time when we may feel overwhelmed by the negative prognosis for the future of humanity and the planet, Positive TV looks to reach across generations and energise us at this critical time where we believe we are on the verge of a new renaissance.

You’ll find topics ranging from food and farming, energy and transport, education and sustainable communities, new economics and design, peace and conflict resolution, the arts, health, spirituality, books, spiritual, films and music.”

www.positivetv.tv

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For more information or to offer any sort of help, please contact me as below...

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Gareth Strangemore-Jones
NAP: News And Pictures / Positive TV

 gareth@newsandpictures.co.uk

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