Looking for some Savannah area businesses, media outlets and bloggers to help promote a community event!

Invisible Children, non-profit film organization, has included a stop in Savannah on it’s “Legacy Tour”. This tour features a new film about the 30,000+ child soldiers in east Africa who have been abducted and forced into battle by Joseph Kony and his rebel army. This tour also features real Ugandans who have been affected by the war who will speak in person about their experiences and answer any questions. The event is on March 21 and it will be at The Lake Church on the southside of Savannah (50 Al Henderson Blvd).

Here are a couple videos about the tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_4vC-_3gc

http://vimeo.com/8271057

Basically we just need/want help promoting it. This event is free and any money donated and all monies from merchandise purchases at the event go straight to Invisible Children. We have no budget for ads or promotion so we are looking for some compassionate people to donate air-time, to write and air/print a news story or blog about the event, to donate space in a window for a flyer, or to donate a banner-ad space on a blog or website for the event. We have videos, clips from the documentary, graphics, and all of that ready to go. We can even get you phone interviews with the Invisible Children staff or the Ugandans visiting before they arrive in Savannah. You can interview them in person on that Sunday when they are in town (they will be available in the afternoon).

What’s in it for you? Honestly… not much. Like I said we can’t pay for any of this promotion because we don’t have any money for it. Basically in return for whatever you do we could help promote your business/blog/media-outlet via our facebook pages, we can put a link or small ad on a program we’ll pass out at the event, and you could possibly even set up a table that night at the event with information on your business or organization. Plus your act of promotion will show the community you care about local events and international issues.

For more information check out the official facebook event page here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=252548487174

You can contact me via my cell at 937-287-9845 or email me at brian@shiftcreative.org

The “God Hates Fags” church plans to picket at Twitter’s HQ

Reverend Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Twitter’s San Francisco offices tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Kansas-based church is picketing because it believes that “the people who run Twitter … don’t use their position & voice to warn a generation of rebels of the consequences of their rebellion.”

The church knows how to get attention. It has been hit with a tsunami of criticism for picketing military funerals and waving signs that say things like “God Hates Fags” while claiming that America deserves its military losses because of its sins. Westboro even runs a website at www.godhatesfags.com. Members will also be protesting several Jewish organizations — including the Anti-Defamation League — in the hours leading up to its visit to Twitter ().

The church members will be tweeting about the Twitter HQ picketing rally as it happens. Don’t be too quick to point out the irony on that. The Westboro schedule says: “Now that should get interesting, WBC member(s) Tweeting as they picket outside Twitter, Inc. Won’t a black hole or something open in the space/time vortex?”

Remember: The church is neither protesting Twitter itself nor decrying it as a tool of human communication. Rather, it’s picketing the HQ because the bigwigs at the company aren’t using their places of power and influence to spread the word about the sins Westboro believes people commit and their expected consequences.

Presumably picketing Twitter will also get them some web and social media exposure. The old “all press is good press” idiom doesn’t apply in this case, though; the exposure they’re seeking will probably just draw more ire and lead to more marginalization.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

A Tragedy at XXXChurch

A message from Craig Gross posted on XXXChurch.com

One of the speakers on the XXXChurch team ended his own life yesterday, and I don’t know how to handle it.  His name is Steve Glisan.  You can watch his story by clicking here. You can read some of his blogs he wrote on the XXXchurch site here. He is survived by his wife Ann and his three children. I fly to Colorado Springs on Friday and will be able to say a few things at the funeral on Saturday. Donny, Michelle and myself will be in the springs and hope to be an encouragement to the family and friends this weekend. Please keep the family in your prayers.

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Let’s be keeping the Glisan family and the XXXChurch family in our prayers.