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I think the majority of us have been guilty of taking what we have for granted atleast once (or one hundred times). With the recent earthquake in Haiti, there’s so much unrest in the country that people are struggling to survive. We’re lucky. We wake up in the morning, grab breakfast, go online, shower in clean water, easily get to work or school or the beach or the mall or Starbucks. Then, we come home, hang out and go to sleep in our comfortable beds, bundled most likely. While we go through our days as normal, there are hundreds of thousands of people displaced, injured, and helpless. Organizations like the Red Cross are dedicating alot of resources and I think it’s our responsibility to do what we can.

Set to begin tonight at 8pm E.T., Hope for Haiti Now is a telethon hosted on several channels, just flick through and you’re likely to land on it. Segments will be hosted across the country with George Clooney hosting in LA, Wyclef Jean in NY, while Anderson Cooper will be reporting live from Haiti. Alot of people are behind this effort and be sure to look for appearances by former President Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Will Smith, Robert Pattison, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman. Beyond that, taking the stage to perform will be Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Madonna, U2′s Bono and The Edge, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Keith Urban, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Coldplay and Bruce Springsteen.

100 percent of the funds to go specifically to immediate humanitarian relief and long-term recovery efforts in Haiti conducted by the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, the American Red Cross, UNICEF, Yele Haiti, Oxfam America, Partners in Health and the UN World Food Program.

“It’s a big world out there, and we all have a lot of responsibility to help out people who can’t help themselves.”

- George Clooney

With a series of print and outdoor ads plus an online exhibition, Save the Children in Australia is looking to make injustice for children a thing of the past.  As the Inspiration Room writes, “It’s 2009, yet things like child prostitution, child soldiers and child deaths from unclean water is still happening. Save the Children Australia want to make these practises obsolete.”

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Iran’s Presidential elections did not going as smooth as the government had hoped. There was much bad-mouthing by rivals Mir Hossein Mousavi and incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading up to the elections and things got really out of hand post-election. Both men claimed victory but in the end, the government ruled in Ahmadinejad’s favor, bringing accusations of fraud and corruption.

The result of all this is a country in political unrest, with Mousavi supporters taking it to the streets of Iran head-on against public order police.

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Our friend Jason Carpio turns us to photographer Jon Orlando and his recent “Warriors for Peace” project. “Through the use of intimate portraits and in depth audio interviews, this project challenges that perception of the soldier and reintroduces us to them as humans with distinct and varying sets of emotions, morals and beliefs.  Specifically it looks deeply at the emotions and feelings behind their decision to oppose the wars they have been a part of.”

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A photo journey by Ian Laidlaw, the photographer travels to the Buraku area of Osaka. The Burakumin are a Japanese minority group consisting of around 3 million people in about 6,000 communities. Their ancestors were classes as outcastes during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) due to their occupations. They are still discriminated against today.

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Some of the biggest celebrities from the world of fashion, music and style will be joining H&M and Designers Against AIDS (DAA) for Fashion Against AIDS, to help fight the disease and raise youth awareness. Katy Perry, Dita Von Teese, N.E.R.D and Yoko Ono are among the artists who will collaborate with H&M on designs for T-shirts, T-shirt dresses, vests and bodies. 25% of the sales price will be donated to youth HIV/AIDS awareness projects. The collection, in 100% organic cotton, for both guys and girls will go on sale in H&M’s youth DIVIDED department from May 28 2009.

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Big Ant International have won a Gold Pencil for Design (Public Service Poster) at the One Show Design Awards held this week. Four posters were designed to wrap around poles, campaigning for an end to the war in Iraq, pointing to the Global Coalition for Peace web site. Grenades, rifles, missiles and tank guns come round the pole to catch up with the aggressor in each poster. What goes around comes around. The campaign has also been shortlisted at the Clio 2009 and D&D Awards.

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Photographer Rick Bajornas takes us inside Lebanon in this photo documentary. He gives snapshots of Zibqin, Lebanon’s local community and their daily routines as well as visual imagery of the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in the conflict-stricken nation.

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Josh Spear brings light to the WTC Logo Preservation Project, an initiative started by Ji Lee that looks to uphold the memory of the Twin Towers. Prior to 9/11 many New York City-based business proudly displayed the Twin Towers as part of their skyline-centric logos.

Even though it’s been nearly eight years since the tragedy at the World Trade Center, many of those same companies still carry the same image on their signs. The open project collects logos still utilizing the historic skyline that once included the Twin Towers.

Courtesy of LOUDreams, we have the pleasure of covering one of the most powerful collection of portraits our eyes have been blessed to see. “These simple and straightforward portraits depict these elderly Tibetan’s pain and their dignity even through their hopeful smiles. However, full of faith, they are able to show us that the people who have less materials can be blissful in their beliefs and their lives. Receiving private blessing from His Holiness Dalai Lama is their last quest in life, now many of them are already renounced the world and prepares themselves for hereafter.”

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