What do YOU care about? Seriously, what gets you fired up? We want to know.
Wish people would recycle more?
Love SCRABBLE more than anyone you know?
Want to show your support for the troops?
Had it up to here with people talking on cellphones while driving?
Feeling like there’s an important issue being left out of the presidential debates?
That’s why the New River Voice is launching the My VOICE Matters campaign. Now’s your chance to be heard. From now to the end of 2008, we’ll be inviting Voice readers to participate and spread the word. It’s simple to get involved–and it might just let you get a little something off your chest.
So whaddya do? Here goes:
Print a My VOICE Matters sign.
It’s a PDF file so it’ll either open in your browser or with Adobe Reader.- Use a marker to write something you feel strongly about on your sign.
What are your passions? Whether it’s politics, your favorite sports team or band, or a pet peeve–as long as it’s genuine, we want to hear it. Tell us whatcha got. - Have your picture taken with the sign.
It can be by yourself or with friends, in a significant place or in the glow of your computer monitor. It’s your sign, dammit. - E-mail your photo to myvoicematters(@)newrivervoice.com.
You can either scan it from film, if that’s the way you roll, or use a digital camera. Just make your files no larger than 500 Kb and tell us your full name and where you live. - Check back to see your photo.
We’ll upload them into a slideshow as quick as we can, and toward the end we’ll include them all in a multimedia presentation on the site. (Oh yeah, by sending us the photos you are giving us permission to use them for promotional purposes!)
That’s all you need to do. Of course, if you really want to be a sweetheart and help out some more, you can consider doing the following:
- Send an e-mail to your friends and family including this link (www.newrivervoice.com/mvmcampaign) and tell them to join in the fun.
- Print out as many of these flyers as you like and post them in your dorm, at coffee shops and friendly stores, or by the water cooler in your office.
- Become a Fan of the New River Voice on Facebook and we’ll notify you about events where we’ll be setting up tables for the My VOICE Matters campaign.
On Saturday, Oct. 11 we went down to the Highlanders Festival at Radford University and had quite a few participants. Click here to see the My VOICE Matters gallery so far!
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1 Mel // Feb 1, 2009 at 9:43 am
What I care about is mobbing and gangstalking and what we can do to put a stop to it. We are tired of being abused by cops, firemen, clerks in City Hall, Social Services, doctors, nurses, neighbors, etc. With all the info about this on the Internet, why isn’t it in the news? My daughter was in a coma from losing blood from a bleeding ulcer and just as she was coming out of the coma, the nurse slapped her across the face and told her it was her own fault she was in the hospital. When she got out of Intensive Care and into her own room, the nurse came in and threw her clean gown and sheets across the room and told her she had to make her own bed and change her own gown and my daughter had three I.V needles in her arms trying to get well. There are hundreds of other examples I could give that have happened to her and to my son and myself and my mom and dad and our friends. Landlords are also very abusive and have caused us to have to moved many many times. Also postal workers are very abusive to my daughter. Maybe some of you reading this have experienced this type of abuse. Look up mobbing and gangstalking. There is even a book about mobbing in the workplace. We have also been abused at work by bosses and co-workers.
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