Author(s):
Chayer Amelie <amelie@icbl.org> .
Monday 01 March 2010
In March, Human Rights Watch and other members of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) are organizing on Twitter and Facebook to tell both the administration and Congress that the U.S. needs to relinquish antipersonnel mines and get on board the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
If you have an account on Facebook or Twitter, you can participate in this initiative by:
1. Donating your status - Upload one of the "Ban Landmines USA" icons or ‘avatars' below and use it in place of your regular photo or icon on your Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Flickr, and other accounts. Switch your status to a "Ban Landmines USA" on Monday, March 1st and use it that day, that week, or for the whole month of March!
2. Tweeting the hashtag #banminesusa - Our goal is to make the call for the US to ban landmines a trending topic on Twitter through use of the hashtag #banminesusa. So on March 1st and during that week, please tweet #banminesusa every time you see an article, press release, or campaign action in support of the objective to "Ban Landmines USA." Tell your friends on Twitter to do the same. Every time you see a tweet with #banminesusa, please re-tweet it.
You can also use the online letter-writing tools:
Tell President Obama to ban landmines! (Human Rights Watch website)
Tell the U.S. Administration to join the Mine Ban Treaty! (USCBL website)
