tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38991526197549509172024-03-05T16:19:37.620-08:00Social Action Calendar 2008Social Action Calender 2008 for individual activists, activist groups, the church, organisations, bloggers, anyone interested in important and significant dates that promote social change, global equality, social justice and social action.lucy arhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05853654737119450492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899152619754950917.post-62125121248452911092008-01-10T03:55:00.001-08:002008-02-12T23:51:32.753-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjnBo7qzQ6hPdLw1w5Uz5xsGYMN0CynqiaR-CatpZcSU4x1rN3bxYkG7MoSPDIScRyKVc5B68H6toYRrR55-V99HQZJRmiaHjXyE3Xo8KBvs0iEW0OYmy8lUK_udRWGiigFBRElBVxTvT/s1600-h/january.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjnBo7qzQ6hPdLw1w5Uz5xsGYMN0CynqiaR-CatpZcSU4x1rN3bxYkG7MoSPDIScRyKVc5B68H6toYRrR55-V99HQZJRmiaHjXyE3Xo8KBvs0iEW0OYmy8lUK_udRWGiigFBRElBVxTvT/s320/january.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153850246523377810" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />20 <a href="http://www.worldreligionday.org/">World Religion Day</a><br /><br />27 <a href="http://www.hmd.org.uk/about/" target="_blank">Holocaust Memorial Day </a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >27- 3 February <a href="http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/actionweek2008">Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (UK)</a></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyQypsYhclOaJef7FurVzYsbPOyo7R0miq7DyTB0nplW_1BXnlQmlnn-wCEdsWLD1bXBPVO9yUjO_GpR0Bj96Otdguoy21N2ZzOSCUMyApo5FS0q_u8-vQrlFF8vaPoqc2xVhr94dA-zA/s1600-h/february.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ2i5_8bdpjnEuwrsKu82b3zbHCE7cXVvp19lrhxOzdiS3k2XSYURki17ZprZiVODeW58mchT8ImTKQpjwAsb6RcRgvWyPOhlNbtxs95nSzycxaZmVvMUmjjWMzk7URM2c9bSnv3rVvGOl/s320/april.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153849692472596578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />7 <a href="http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en/">World Health Day</a><br /><br />21-27 <a href="http://www.campaignforeducation.org/action/2008/action_2008.html">Global Campaign for Education Week</a><br /><br />21-27 </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.tvturnoff.org/">Turn off TV week</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFmyJAcH8MqXDh_y07SYCZhy-U8Bzwg_GIAU9cj4wNiYuShdZ4SdkpDQUzFjH00FKCJMcZim0qL6UBlGHbqtsqcXeDD8Uz8_Uu1P4WJHaBC9wV6mPB-N2QEG9obC0W4SLDDQGoxqOI0SK/s1600-h/may.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkQsGHGEnPsE6eXzu92ONeo_a4gAXyDr98ltohwcKK1DpXKYFIetBLuPhTLSRndqPxtefqCkBIrQaUvILXrgLiFwvPREk-vyrlWNb66GojJNqkj43chOBuBiJlEsb2_X1yDpzlrEqnBKEp/s320/june.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153849456249395282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">1 <a href="http://www.everychild.org.uk/content/International%20childrens%20day">International Children's Day</a><br /><br />4 <a href="http://www.un.org.my/index.php?act=oth&oth_id=172">International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression</a><br /><br />5 <a href="http://www.unep.org/wed/2008/english/">World Environment Day</a><br /><br />12 <a href="http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/WDACL/lang--en/index.htm" title="World Day Against Child Labour">World Day Against Child Labour</a><br /><br />14-22 <a href="http://bikeweek.limelightinteractive.com/">National Bike Week</a><br /><br />20 <a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/refugee/" title="World Refugee Day ">World Refugee Day</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">26 <a href="http://days.takingitglobal.org/73" title="International Day in Support of Victims of Torture">International Day in Support of Victims of Torture</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFT5uumZiKqx3KP9a6tVo1u19DusTvAmBsA3ycHvDC5IcB4JIP8Wo77AUyQwhOj6IXu-nr3T5In6h8BDkVrTQHl8UqcMjq2JZjMxbHQQA5AJZGylIYa5-VQ91E8xGyEaua3NiAOWjwj872/s1600-h/july.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPXLDw9GWOFkLmSzUK_7VvRqVhzCYobnLS0lxPwjHt_T1zuDhMLpXyS9xKAooPN0kw_zlvTh6KHTGLn4_xOjjdVsHzQ4hrSwAsxXy4sb5n9mKTpaR_0INGONcSO_E65lGgC3sNhVQ9M-m/s320/august.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153849052522469426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">1-7 <a href="http://www.waba.org.my/wbw/index.html">World Breast Feeding Week</a><br /><br />9 <a href="http://www.un.org/events/indigenous/">International Day for the Worlds Indigenous people</a></span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">12 <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/iyouthday.htm">International Youth Day</a><br /><br />23 <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5420&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html">International Day for the remembrance of the Slave trade and its abolition</a><br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKU_x3B5Bsb_ZASDqRIMffoFfzQENf_Ks8O2IGCZ6sU4q2AjAMxW5y32ET0PLLJG5EGztyV_nJ2p5qPUp-YxU_gGRusr5_hvLJqQ8vAbYRWB44D9Jz7SkhcmNipimyQ7dqJqwH1CV8t5qh/s1600-h/september.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKU_x3B5Bsb_ZASDqRIMffoFfzQENf_Ks8O2IGCZ6sU4q2AjAMxW5y32ET0PLLJG5EGztyV_nJ2p5qPUp-YxU_gGRusr5_hvLJqQ8vAbYRWB44D9Jz7SkhcmNipimyQ7dqJqwH1CV8t5qh/s320/september.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153848816299268130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />12 <a href="http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/literacy_day.html">International Literacy Day</a><br /><br />19 <a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/">International Talk like a Pirate Day</a><br /><br />21<a href="http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/"> International Day of Peace</a><br /><br />22 <a href="http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/">World Car Free Day</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyz78dQTu1H0MNByQW2C8kSjiM15SZpl2wUXUFyNUSffgA4rkk11e-VzaU_vKGLUTYDlylCWvuN9Qm34MNQyh_AGFRJar0Fmg6aXsbkj9G2wIROqPsdZ08-4W_LYecpFX01ZdSz_aUWEl/s1600-h/october.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyz78dQTu1H0MNByQW2C8kSjiM15SZpl2wUXUFyNUSffgA4rkk11e-VzaU_vKGLUTYDlylCWvuN9Qm34MNQyh_AGFRJar0Fmg6aXsbkj9G2wIROqPsdZ08-4W_LYecpFX01ZdSz_aUWEl/s320/october.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153848631615674386" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />2 <a href="http://www.un.org/events/nonviolence/">International Day of Non Violence</a><br /><br />5 <a href="http://www.ei-ie.org/worldteachersday/en/index.php">Word Teachers Day</a><br /><br />6 <a href="http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=534">Word Habitat Day</a><br /><br />8 <a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/disaster/">International Day for Disaster Reduction</a><br /><br />9 <a href="http://www.v2020.org/">World Sight Day</a><br /><br />16 <a href="http://www.fao.org/wfd2007/index-wfd2007.html" target="_blank">World Food Day</a><br /><br />17 <a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/poverty/">International Day for the Eradication of Poverty/</a><br /><a href="http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/">Stand Up and Speak out against poverty Day</a><br /><br />24<a href="http://www.un.org/ga/president/57/pages/speeches/statement021024-DevelopmentInfo.htm"> World Development Information Day</a><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UJtQ16aicin6GHyy3beB1RocIXCAzR9uDBaqqKQubX4UAJiPmxx9IkdrhWFh0uJlAyw4kCmNg4BtG6pC441381zMZxdFY9qo8hC7bIJ1ij0z8j3lGbo1ZwMuGURgoS-S2odqRGcMek-y/s1600-h/november.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UJtQ16aicin6GHyy3beB1RocIXCAzR9uDBaqqKQubX4UAJiPmxx9IkdrhWFh0uJlAyw4kCmNg4BtG6pC441381zMZxdFY9qo8hC7bIJ1ij0z8j3lGbo1ZwMuGURgoS-S2odqRGcMek-y/s320/november.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153848408277374978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">6 <a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/environment_war/index.html" class="pageLink">International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict</a><a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/environment_war/index.html"> </a><br /><br />19 <a href="http://www.worldtoilet.org/">World Toilet Day</a><br /><br />20 <a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/children_day/">Universal Childrens Day</a><br /><br />22 <a href="http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/">Buy Nothing Day</a><br /><br />25 <a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/violence/">International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSV3DYHF5pRL9eLNmf5q7vkj3bJ0N-Tb0GjMLAUVRHbYU9Y8QPR-jJvaM672YMt_UEYJipx3wmiqKoVis3xu5BE8jCjy65gEXE7TqaCaJPv7E77Q5AJ-Ma9Ast16FVwlgaeVLc2_cUryi/s1600-h/december.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSV3DYHF5pRL9eLNmf5q7vkj3bJ0N-Tb0GjMLAUVRHbYU9Y8QPR-jJvaM672YMt_UEYJipx3wmiqKoVis3xu5BE8jCjy65gEXE7TqaCaJPv7E77Q5AJ-Ma9Ast16FVwlgaeVLc2_cUryi/s320/december.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153848219298813938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />1 <a href="http://www.un.org/events/aids/2007/">World Aids Day</a><br /><br />2 <a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/slavery/">International Day for the Abolition of Slavery</a><br /><br />5 <a href="http://dynamic.unv.org/infobase/facts/04_08_17DEU_fs_IVD.htm">International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development</a><br /><br />10 <a href="http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2007/">Human Rights Day</a><br /><br />18 </span><a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/events/migrants/"><span style="font-size:130%;">International Migrants Dayे</span></a><br /><br />If you have any important social justice dates for the Social Action Calendar 2008 please leave a comment!<br /><a href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/events/migrants/"> </a>lucy arhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05853654737119450492noreply@blogger.com1