Category Archives: Becky's Activism

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Global Write-a-Thon

Posted on December 4, 2010 by beckyajohnson

Prompted by an advertisement on Facebook, this year I signed up for Amnesty International’s Annual ‘Write for Rights’ Global Write-a-Thon. According the Amnesty’s website, Write for Right is the largest letter writing campaign in the world. From December 4th – … Continue reading →

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Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Blue-Green Rally

Posted on September 7, 2010 by beckyajohnson

Today Las Vegas played host to the Clean Energy Summit 3.0, co-hosted by Senate Majority Leader Hary Reid (D-NV) and Center for American Progress Action Fund President and CEO John Podesta at UNLV. In attendance at the event were business … Continue reading →

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International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria

Posted on July 21, 2010 by beckyajohnson

For the past week I have been in Vienna, Austria participating in events associated with the XVIII International AIDS Conference. The purpose of my trip has been focused on work – contributing a few blog postings to the Ecumenical Media Team’s … Continue reading →

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CARE National Conference in Washington, DC

Posted on May 13, 2010 by beckyajohnson

Every 52 seconds a woman dies in childbirth. In some countries, such as Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, a woman has a 1 in 8 chance of dying in childbirth in her lifetime. This is in comparison to 1 in 4,800 women who die in childbirth in the United States and 1 in over 17,000 in Sweden for lifetime risk. Continue reading →

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Earth Week Book Review: Gorgeously Green

Posted on April 20, 2010 by beckyajohnson

During a recent long wait at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, I visited the bookstore in search of something to keep me entertained on my 4-hour flight back to Vegas. Passing over the section of best selling fiction that I frequently … Continue reading →

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