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Bronze Trinity has compiled an action list for the Afrospear members.

1) Get the UN to stop the war in Darfur. Join organizations and promote the cause until the UN or someone steps in to stop the African World War. Post a Stop the War in Darfur button or image on your blog or website at the very least. As you can see to your right I have the button and I have signed
maybe 4 Darfur petitions. For some of the petitions prewritten emails or letters were automatically mailed. Tonight I also donated $100 to the UN Refugee Agency. Have you done this yet?

2) Make Poverty History. Join One.org and support organizations that are working to end poverty. Spend the dollar at least and get the bracelet.I have done this and I wear the bracelet. I have also signed at least one petition at their site and I sent emails about the One to my friends. I also make monthly donations to UNICEF even though my income is unstable and I have loads of student debt. Have you done this yet?

3) Black Leader Recruitment and Promotion. If you know positive Black role models then promote them, ask them to get involved, help them to make changes, and work with them. Make a website of good Black role models so they become famous and so that they are called when the media wants to hear from the Black Community. If you want better leaders then go out and find them because they are just waiting for your support and encouragement. There are two sites already doing this, Black Male Appreciation and Sistas in the News (available on the Afrospear Politics & Opinion Page) but PLEASE HELP to find some more sites like this and to encourage or participate in their work.

4) Convict Workforce. Hire ex-cons who no one else will hire and have them fix up Black communities in return for food, shelter, clothing, recommendation letters, and help finding another job. Employ them as security guards and construction and maintenance workers. Make it so that those who want to change can find rewarding work that can help our communities.

5) Citizen Police Surveillance. Videotape cops whenever they are around and post it to a website so that we can catch corruption and police brutality. Videotape how they react to being recorded in a public place in the same way many places in North America are under constant surveillance. People behave if they are being watched and court cases are easy to win if there is video footage. Use cellphones to post instantly and anonymously to the site. Support the underdog because one day he might be you. Youtube has an instant mobile upload service that you can use to instantly upload video to the site.

6) Marry Your Baby Daddy. This is a campaign started by author Maryanne Reid. Encourage people to get married and raise children as families. Its not cool to raise kids in broken homes or to have children when you do not have the means to support them. Visit the site HERE.

7) Sex Education Website Promotion. If parents don’t want their children to get pregnant and catch STDs, schools only teach abstinence, and parents are too afraid to talk about sex then make an interactive website that will do the talking for them and answer questions. Let them know about the various sex education sites online. Are you going to let schools decide if your kids become teenaged parents and die of AIDS? Some sites include Scarleteen, Sex Education Links, Sex Etc, .

8) Why Are You Wasting Your Money Campaign. Make ads showing how much money we waste in a year on booze, cigarettes, designer clothes, and other crap and compare it to the cost of a house, university education, tutor for a year, company shares, and other expenditures that would actually improve the African Diaspora. Those who want you to waste your money benefit from keeping you poor and they don't care about you. They only care about what you can do for them.

9) Stop Using the N-Word. Stop saying it, tolerating it, and purchasing music that uses it. You have been fooled into thinking that using an insult in a friendly manner takes the power away from the word. You were tricked into habitually insulting yourselves and making racists smile.

10) Elect Barak Obama. Stop the monopoly by getting registered to vote and voting for Barak Obama. Make history and change the way Black people are viewed in the world by making a Black man the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Choose a leader and get together and back him!

11) Make Education Cool. Stop paying attention and promoting ignorant behaviour and people. Make educated involved citizens our heroes by writing about positive Black Role models and flooding the media with stories about them and demanding that they are aired.

12) Make Gangstas Uncool. Stop looking up to Gangstas and buying there stuff. Stop acting like them, dressing like them, talking like them, and buying their music. Make a website of bad Black role models and make them look like the idiots and losers they are.

13) Afrosphere Online Newspapers. I have already started one but other people can get out there, find content relevant to different parts of the world and different interests so that we make it easy for people to get involved and knowledgeable about African Diaspora issues. If you don’t like the media then make alternative media sources available.

14) Positive Hip Hop Free Promotion Campaign. If you don’t like Gangsta rap then promote positive, conscious hip hop artists on your blog or website until it becomes the mainstream.I have started this with a premade slide show of artists with positive and conscious lyrics and I have pasted it on my blog. Have you done this yet? Also please sign the Stop Offensive Media and Negative Hip Hop Petition!

15) Plus 1 Minus 1. Created by Young Black Professionals Guide. Only buy CDs and mp3s from artists who do not make the African Diaspora look bad and hurt our members. Advertise the campaign on your blog. I have done this. Have you done this yet?

16) Internet Public Service Announcements. Use YouTube, paint shop, and any means you can to promote these African Diaspora issues. Make interesting, inspiring, moving, funny, or any announcement that gets our causes noticed. You can find freeware and online sites so you don’t even need a cent to make them. Find announcements that have already been made and keep them them on your site.

17) Single Mothers' Village. It's difficult for single mothers to raise children alone. There is an African saying that it takes a village to raise a child. Single mothers can get together and share houses and apartments together with their children to share the child raising and foster community support.

That's off the top of my head and it wasn’t hard to come up with these ideas with absolutely no research. So lets hear some more ideas.