Tearing Down The Wall

By Adam Valvasori - Values Manager




















Grant Beckwith - TBS's IT Guru- as featured on Amnesty International's homepage... tearing down the Great Firewall of China.

Sophie Peer, Amnesty's Uncensor Campaign Coordinator, wrote in an email:

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! The TBS crew have been fantastic. Fun, engaging, professional, punctual, good monkeys and just generally great! I had a ball with them on day one and two in Melbourne and know that our staff and volunteers have really appreciated TBS help thus far. I think we have captured Grant's mood fairly accurately here!!! I hope that everyone who has been involved to date has enjoyed themselves and now see themselves as a human rights defender! We look forward to meeting more TBS people around the country.

Yours truly doing the patented "Censorship = Bad, Dance" with the TBS Geelong crew who were going above and beyond by volunteering in their own time.

I know this kind of thing is not that mainstream - especially the fact that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are in bed with the Chinese Government by helping them to patrol and censor the Internet in China. But my take home from interacting with 'the public' was that people know very little about Human Rights or Human Rights abuses around the world full stop. What are they teaching in schools these days?!

Everyone should take 10 minutes to read The Declaration of Human Rights

If you would like to help Amnesty International take a stand and Defend Human Rights in China... find out when their Great Firewall is coming to your city or town and volunteer your services!


~Adam