29 December 2010
Someone Like You CAN Make a Difference
An antidote to a female-pop-dominated-sexually-infused-music-industry!
25 December 2010
18 December 2010
DADT Repeal PASSES in the Senate!
YES!!!!!
***UPDATE 3PM*** The Senate has now passed legislation ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The final vote was 65-31.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted 63-33 on Saturday to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, defeating a 17-year policy of banning gay and lesbian service members from serving openly in the military.
Five Republicans crossed the aisle to vote against the policy: Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
The Senate vote is a vindication of Obama's decision to push for congressional repeal as opposed to unilateral executive action, though activists note he could have done both. The Senate will make a final vote on ending the policy at 3 p.m.
"The important thing today is that 63 senators were on the right side of history," Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, told HuffPost, adding he sees the bill as a "stepping stone to further advances for the gay and lesbian community."
01 December 2010
More to Me than My HIV
(original Pure Advocacy™ campaign artwork by Michael Brown)
We are someones child
We are someones brother or sister
We are someones soul mate
We are someones forever friend
We are someones knowledge
We are someones truth
We are also someones worst fear........
There is more to me than my HIV
Project Headshot Clinic 2010
Today is December 1 and before I don't really know that this is a very special day to everyone else. Years past and I spent this particular day either inside an office workspace or at home (weekend) watching DVDs, reading graphic novels, playing video games or simply slacking on my bed all day catching a long sleep. But not until I first participated on Project Headshot Clinic.To those who are not familiar with it, Project Headshot Clinic (HSC) is a brand new concept that merges Profile photos online and Advertising as we see campaigns, advertisements, and advocacies may easily be conveyed through our unique digitized headshots, online profile photos can be potential online billboards. Its major components are: registration, mass shooting, and mass uploading on social network web sites (as profile photo), which make HSC an effective and creative marketing tool. HSC creates curiosity and impact to those who are not yet aware or part of it. In a nutshell HSC is all about viral Marketing.
The project is spearheaded by Niccolo Cosme, one of the country's best fashion and concept photographer. Together with his team they partnered with various organization who needs a brand new way on telling people what they want.
Its been a year since my first participation on Headshot Clinic and I first experience it with One Youth. Then from that campaign it led me to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) MOVE Campaign. It was a very brief moment that I don't even care about what really is the meaning of the project. And I hate to admit it, it takes me a year to finally realize the essence of this advocacy.
For almost 3 years, HSC became the bridge of people which are used as an outlet of information to further strengthen the awareness on HIV and AIDS among people. People may say that they already know all they need to know about this condition (not a disease) but still everyday the number of HIV victims grow. Before, we become AWARE and some people practically became scared of it then people like Niccolo and others start to MOVE forward with their effort to awaken the dying advocacy against HIV and AIDS and finally its time to ACT to make all this visions come into fruition.
Photographer/Social Activist - Niccolo Cosme
Project Headshot Clinic founder
So today let as all give a fraction of our time.
Celebrate December 1 as a day of liberation.
Liberation from Prejudice, Ignorance and Fear.
Happy World AIDS Day, everyone.
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