Talking about grassroots' power which I mentioned at my previous post, what the Burma VJ is about. Today Former President Bill Clinton visited SF Bay area; he spoke on global citizenship at the University of California at Berkeley.
Clinton said global communication has enhanced our abilities and global interdependence has made it a necessity to be involved.
Anaya Roy is chair of the Global Poverty and Practice Program at U.C. Berkeley.
"I think the most important thing he said today here at Berkeley was that it is possible to think about a new moment of communitarianism," she said.
Will Smelko is student body president.
"It makes me realize that there is so much validity to what he is talking about, and it makes me inspired to make me go out and do something," he said.
(quoted from KGO-TV San Francisco, CA)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7294942
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