Partner with Alliance of Youth Movement for 2009 Summit
On October 15, the 2009 Alliance of Youth Movement Summit will bring together individuals, government officials, academics entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders from over 15 countries including Columbia, India, Saudi Arabia, and UK to discuss best practices and ways to use social media and technology to further grassroots movements and causes. The majority of the speakers are youth activists and leaders, or nonprofit/technology experts, making for an awesome international dialogue.
Speakers include Carlos Pascual (United States Ambassador to Mexico), Jason Liebman (CEO, Howcast), Jack Dorsey (Founder, Twitter) Jared Cohen (U.S. Department of State), Steve Grove (Head of News and Politics at YouTube) and both executive directors, creative directors, writers and marketing managers for organizations including Full Court Peace, Invisible Children, Genocide Intervention Network, Stand, Witness, Blue State Digital and Sri Lanka Unites.
The conference will be livestreaming and Alliance of Youth Movements is looking for bloggers to help spread the word and partner in providing coverage to their communities. Key speakers at the AYM Summit will answer questions from online submissions during their speeches and panels, and via the widget below, anyone can submit a question then tune in to see it answered by watching the live stream from Mexico City.
Beginning 8:15am on October 15th through 3:30pm on October 16th you can watch the Live Stream of the 2009 AYM Summit.
Today, over 800 student activists converged on Capitol Hill for the largest lobby day to prevent genocide in history.
The students were marching to the Hill at 8:30am to meet with their elected officials and to push Congress to implement the recommendations of the Genocide Prevention Task Force (GPTF) report. As part of an innovative partnership between STAND, the student led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, and WITNESS, the international human rights organization that pioneered video advocacy, the student activists collected 500 video messages from their student body and community. For the first time, these messages were edited to create individual videos for Senators, which the students began hand-delivering to them this morning. View personalized videos for Senators: http://hub.witness.org/STAND-STUDENT-VIDEOS
With this campaign we are seeing the ‘YouTube generation’ in action – and today, we're seeing them change how citizens are lobbying Congress. Less than a month after the Obama administration unveiled the Sudan policy review, these students are reminding their elected officials and President Obama of the moral and political imperative to bring peace in Sudan today and ensure that other similar conflicts don't occur in the future.