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How is the project going?

sera_lovespuppies — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:02:33 GMT

Tobias! What's going on here? Where are you? What is happening with this project, I know you are close, can you tell me and everyone else what it is you do and what you need??

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www.rosettainterpreters.com

Jeremy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:48:28 GMT

www.rosettainterpreters.com is a place where you can sell your language skills over the phone today for free.

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Where's Tobias?

MdJGutie — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:58:04 GMT

I know he's been in Cambodia, but usually he sends emails and I haven't heard from him.

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Visit HT on Myspace!!!

dangerpants — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:58:50 GMT

Yesssss kiddies! Our favorite project run by Mr Tobias now has a myspace page....check it out...spread the word....get up to date!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=158396158

And the page is perty

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New Video Short

Tobias — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:28:52 GMT

We have a new video short about the dam project in Cambodia posted on www.humantranslation.org/news.htm

video by irene pak and justine gerenstein.

the most recent information about the project is posted there also.

thanks for keeping up, everyone.

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Traveling to Vietnam to visit Orphanages

tiffercorn — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:50:37 GMT

I will be traveling to Vietnam in June as a part of a trip called "Operation Reunite: Homeward Bound." It is for all those babies at the end of the Vietnam war that were airlifted out and adopted by US families. I am one of those babies and World Airways is flying my mom and I along with 19 other adoptees and their guests. One of our stops will be to an orphanage and I was looking for ways to raise money to give to them. Please help me with suggestions. I was thinking of just sending out a mass e-mail for paypal donations, but maybe there is another way that would be more fun.
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The real need of ALL the orphanages is for Medical
Supplies, Equipment and MONEY. Considering the short time before departure, you might
Consider using the money you would use in purchasing supplies as a donation instead.
A more practical gift may be your own effort to obtain contributions from your friends and familiy.a dollar here, a dollar there. Or to make a small personal sacrifice in donating what you would spend on yourself. Place the money in an envelope, and if exchange is required, you will do that on arrival...afterwards you can have the pleasure of giving the envelop to them yourself.

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Pai

subir — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:01:45 GMT

To all my friends.

Pai as we now it is gone.
Town is now deserted because of the amount of mud and the sudden lack of guesthouses and bars still standing.
What happened???
We don't know for sure, but we have had the worst flooding in 30 years... Rumours about broken dams.
Mudslides from the mountain came down by the wednesdaymarket, destroying everything in its way. The house that John and Dan shared with Jae was hit and filled with mud. They are all ok, but has lost everything.
The wednesdaymarket is trashed, houses missing and broken road.
Unfortunatley the mud then swept over Lucky Blaskows. I have lost my bar.
At the same time as this happened, our own river took on desastrous proportions and washed away everything on the other side of the river; Drifters, Goodview, Familyhut and our beloved Riverview, flooding Mellow Yellow, Goodlife and everything on their street.
Ps Bungalows lost 22 out of 30 huts and every record about guests was washed away in the stream.

My house survived only because of the hill it is built on. Some of my neighbours wewe not as fortunate.
Opened my window saturday morning and saw a river stretching from hill to hill. The ones of you who have been to my house know that that's not right. Where did my beautiful ricepaddys go???
Started digging out places last sunday. 20 people digging out three feet of mud from Shisha, and we have been at it ever since.
Feel so tired.
Also feel proud though. Have organised a large team that goes from one place to the next.
Yesterday I found a small familyhouse in Nam Ho. The familys in the villages do not get any help from the military, so we started digging.
Managed to go back today with my entire crew, and what would have been an impossible job for them was done in five hours.

The newspaper only wrights what the goverment allows them to wright. according to them only 13 deaths and a few cases of missing people has been reported in the hole north(Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Soppong, Pai and every village inbetween), but there is no way that that can be true. No way. We are talking hundreds...

Sorry if this email seems a bit scatty, but I feel so tired. Info can be found on Google/Pai Thailand, or from me on number +6671924680

Please call us, we are all ok, but we need some support!

Lots of love

Elin, John and Dan

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good luck!

fruitbat — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:54:56 GMT

because i'm sick and my ears are cloggin... i can't get to sugar tonight.
but!!!! butt!!! i want to wish human translation all the best with raising money. i'm there with you in spirit. i also just have to give a hip hip hooray to slave kitten for plowing through photoshop and making flyers for the sale on saturday. have fun tonight. i miss you guys!
fruitbat

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New movement to co-opt corporations for change

spidey — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:42:10 GMT

I have a passion for life - for my life, my kids ’lives, and all of our lives …so I have to share my passion and my vision (that follows) with you …hoping that it might lead you to more hope-filled, joyful and sustainable lives.

First, for perspective, the next paragraph is the important part of world history in a single paragraph. Then, I hope to enlist you in joining the Aikido Activism Movement, a movement that can face today ’s deepest challenges with the most empowered approach to change.

THE IMPORTANT PART OF WORLD HISTORY IN A PARAGRAPH
Humanity has passed from a first great era of primarily physically-mediated conflict to one today of primarily economically-mediated conflict (see for example, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins - http://www.tinyurl.com/4tebc or http://www.tinyurl.com/5t8j9 ) and NOW we can and must advance to an era of primarily reason-mediated conflict. In each of the earlier eras people by and large did the best they could with what they had (as they will today and in the future only now with much better tools for communication which MUST be used for increased understanding, which -- fortunately -- can naturally translate to caring). The problem of capitalism today was less a problem when it was invented as a solution to feudal imperialism (with regular physical conflict). Economic imperialism has yet further removed the suffering from view of the beneficiaries of economic imperialism; but, in order to link with economic subjects, a global network has been built that can actually be used to bring people together -- and while inter-tribal, international, and intercorporate engagements in ages of primarily physically-mediated and primarily economically-mediated conflict have a history of being quite exploitive (if not deadly), engagements in the dawning age of reason can evolve to be much more like a dance, yet still a dance of joy or survival depending on one's viewpoint. The key should be seeing the power of inclusion, which can bring joy and unity -- replacing profit maximization with fruition maximization as a necessity for sustainability/survival and joy in a globalizing era.

My passions have been channeled into writing about a systematic solution to this systemic problem of today: that corporations do both the most good and the most bad, but it is their ability to hide bad things in the complexity of corporate behavior and in the popular but treacherous myth they promulgate -- "greed is good" -- that has led to essentially all major world problems.

Efforts to overpower corporations with grass roots public fervor or death-of-their-excesses by a thousand cuts from non-profits or NGOs appear to be having little effect, so why not turn the tools of corporations (and their economic might) against their regressive practices? This is Aikido Activism, my passion that I hope will become yours in a budding movement that everyone should want to join - and that anyone and everyone with a computer and Internet access is empowered to advance by sharing parts of the puzzle (how Aikido Activism can be applied in their field and applying it), supporting other Aikido Activists, getting the word out electronically, etc.

Change is possible. Find out who some Aikido Activists are who are working for progressive transformation of outworn social traditions –and please share any comments, ideas, connections, at the new wiki-website http://aikidoactivism.xwiki.com/ where there is a growing amount of information begun to be collected and organized online to advance the Aikido Progressive Movement – to understand our past and build a promising opportunity for our future.

Spidey

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Since our Party for Change

Tobias — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:54:05 GMT

I have been in a strange place.

Something happened last weekend which I've had trouble comprehending. I've been in this static autopilot since then: gone about my business, contacted the monks, contacted the foundation, let everyone know that it was a success. But still, I've been unable to calibrate. I've been scattered, and today I realized why that is.

I've been in shock.

I was overwhelmed last weekend. Absolutely leveled by what I saw, heard, and felt from the people around me. The generosity and caring that flowed forth from you was so intense, that I am only now, a week later, able to string words and thoughts together in such a way to reflect how I feel.

The two little words "thank you," barely scratch the surface.

What I saw happen last weekend was something I did not expect. I knew people would come out and party. I had no idea there would be an outpouring of support from so many of you I have never met. I expected to know most everyone, but as the night grew, I realized I was in a room full of foreign faces, all smiling, dancing and celebrating with open hearts.

Thank you for listening to our cause. Thank you for trusting a message you have never heard. Thank you for giving such a gift to people you have never met. Thank you for believing that we can make a difference through our happiness. Thank you for proving that we can change things with our music.

We hit our mark, and raised $2,500 for the rebuilding of the monk's dam. The potential life of this dam, once it is built will help not only the five thousand people that live there now, but their children also. A generation of Cambodians will be touched by this project.

This is because of you.

We're still working hard. If you're interested in helping to raise awareness and funds for the continuation of this endeavor, please visit www.HumanTranslation.org. We still have people to help, and this was not the last party for change.

To everyone who made this event possible, on behalf of the Monks and the Slor Kram Commune:
Orkoon, and Thank You.

Extra special thanks to the DJs, especially PORTER TINSLEY, who made it ALL happen using just her street-smarts, wit, and pure sexiness. Uber-special thanks to: Sundara Varna, Jesse Wright, Wolfie, Sammybliss, The Saynt, Ryan Hammill, Subir, Peter, Bianca, Barbie, Bruce, Rodney, Sehra, Silly, Candy, Shena, and Hyjynx for closing out the night. And of course Audra for her generous vision and insight.

Your collective kindness has touched many, many people.

With love,
Tobias

Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Project Coordinator
Human Translation Project
www.HumanTranslation.org
Tobias@HumanTranslation.org
+1 707-843-0200 (USA)

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Cambodian Monks

Tobias — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:20:35 GMT

This is an attempt to open up a discussion about the Monks of Wat Phreah Enkosa. To make a long story short, the first time I was in Cambodia, these monks solicited me for help in building a Dam that will feed over five thousand people. Unfortunately, they have little to no experience interacting with westerners, so I have become one of their few "links" to the first world.
Since then, i've built them a small website, provided them with a way to raise money online, and worked out some marketing materials to help give them legitimacy. I've also begun raising funds, which is where I'm looking for insight.

We're throwing a fundraiser party to help them, but I'm really interested in brainstorming on further ways to raise awareness for these monks, or other interesting methods of connecting them with the outside world. Cambodia is a beautiful place, but it's far removed from people's minds on this side of the earth.

Any thoughts at all...

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