What's up Everyone, hope y'all are enjoying a good Halloween time. In case you're on the net, check out this new album called Serve 3 put together by HardRock, yea like the restaurants! Serve3 is a partnership with the artists and this year the album will be supporting World Hunger Year (WHY). The "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign has been on going with HardRock and this year they'll once again be trying to take a kick out of poverty with various initiatives including rad pins and ornaments! Read all about WHY here.

If you want to fight hunger while getting some really rad tracks like John Lennon's Give Peace A Chance, then here's a really tiny and fun first step! The album drops worldwide on Nov. 4th, and you can get it on the HardRock website. Also if you buy it on iTunes, you can get the BONUS 6-tracks! Here's a FREE track below!

Toby Lightman - Color

Here's the tracklist!
Bruce Springsteen - Remember When The Music
Joss Stone - Love Has Made You Beautiful
My Morning Jacket - Look At You
Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Diane (Live from Bonnaroo 2006)
The Charlatans - Complete Control
Ryan Shaw - People Get Ready
Marc Broussard - Keep Coming Back
Starsailor - Military Madness
Micki Free - Mother Earth
DMC - I Be Rockin' It
The Chapin Sisters - I Know It's Over
John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance

"The incredible demonstration of talent, time, commitment and dedication to this cause will one day make our vision of a world without hunger and poverty a reality." -Bill Ayres, founder of WHY

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Hey guys it's BLOG ACTION DAY! Over here at BBQCHICKENROBOT.com we want to tell you about a particular organization that is doing something about poverty and they make it EASY for you to get involved! KIVA.org is an awesome organization and website that makes it easy for you to engage in Microfinance. It's ulllltra easy!

Individuals in other countries have dreams to start their own businesses just like you and me but they don't have the means. No, I'm not talking about 100s of 1000s of dollars, we're talkin' contributing with a minimum of $25 bucks. 25 BUCKS!

It's super easy and you have the opportunity, RIGHT NOW, whether you are sitting in your office or your room to HELP someone. So stop reading this! Click this and start lending!

If you are just getting into this stuff, or you are stuck on something, PLEASE PLEASE Email us! We'd love to help you figure it all out. Whether it's poverty, human trafficking, building libraries, diggin wells, building clinics, whatever it might be, we want to connect you.

Increase the peace!

Need some motivation? maybe some inspiration? Check this article out.

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Students Promoting Awareness About North Korea or SPAANK which they're more known for, is a UCLA campus organization led by a team of dedicated people with a clear mission: Create awareness about the atrocities and horrific truths going on in North Korea today and partner with organizations in raising up activists through creative mediums. Their latest effort is a benefit concert called "Ignorance Is Bliss" which will feature performances by artists like Far East Movement and Blu. The concert begins Monday (tomorrow) May 26th, at the UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom [map] at 6pm.

Christine Bae, Founder and Director of SPAANK, has successfully transformed her own frustrations and compassion for the issues of North Korea into real works of action. SPAANK is a direct result of a grown passion through everyday conversations about North Korea with her grandmother, watching heavy films like Seoul Train, and reading the autobiographies of survivors. Her own words say it all:

" Sometimes I feel ridiculously useless. I can't "work" the political system, hold a child dying from hunger, save a woman from a life of sex slavery or protect a refugee hiding in China but there is something, at least one thing, that I can do: spread this difficult truth to anyone that will hear it."

Tickets at the door are $15 but if you reserve through e-mail here, it's only $10! Listen to some fresh music and contribute to making a difference! Proceeds will go to the North Korea Freedom Coalition and Liberty in North Korea {LiNK}. Both organizations work to protect and provide humanitarian relief to refugees in and out of North Korean borders. Come out and get the facts straight! See you there!

What's next for SPAANK?! These guys are currently planning and brewing up ideas that involve partnering with key humanitarian organizations and sending messages of activism through creative mediums....such as film?! To learn more, and to get involved check the website here or contact them here.

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This morning when I saw this press release I was ecstatic! MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) Campaign and Radiohead are teaming up to raise awareness by co-producing a music video for Radiohead's All I Need track from In Rainbows. The music video will be premiering on all things MTV networks tomorrow. But you can watch it here now! I really think the video will raise some heads up. MTV EXIT and Radiohead aren't stopping there. While Radiohead is on tour in North America, Europe, and Asia, activists belonging to local anti-human trafficking organizations will be distributing key information about trafficking. Another excellent way to raise awareness!

FYI:
Human Trafficking is defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, and receipt of a person for sexual or economic exploitation by force, fraud, coercion, or deception” in order to make a profit.
-It is the second-largest illegal trade after drugs, with criminal traffickers earning over US$10 billion every year through the buying and selling of human beings.
-There are estimated 27 million individual human beings living in slavery today.
-Facts & Resources about trafficking in the U.S.

I really hope that MTV EXIT can really bring a difference and raise awareness on this horrific issue, but the truth is, to end it, we all have to care and do something about it. I highly encourage everyone to check out the Trafficking in Persons Report 2007. It contains in-depth information about slavery and current status of severity country by country. Also check out Concert To End Slavery. Find out what is going on in your local community to raise awareness for these injustices. If you need help or want to talk more feel free to email us. I think it's a moral calling for all people to look beyond their own lives and realize everyone should have the basic rights of freedom. We are all human beings called to do different things and I think fighting opression in some form to benefit another is definitely one of them.

..."What Good is all of our economic and political power if we don't use it to free people in slavery?.."

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Ever since Waxploitation's Genocide in Sudan release in '03, we've really appreciated their efforts in activism. It's an underlying fact that within success, it is completely crucial to use that power to cause change (or create it). I can't stress enough how important it is to continue to educate yourself on current situations in places where we are not. I truly believe people who live in "relative" peace are called to help and serve those who do not or cannot. However a lot of us do not have time (amongst other things), but I'm telling you right now there are many ways to get involved even while sitting at your computer.

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