Thousands join human art petition

A global day of action on Saturday 12 July used human aerial art to call on the Chinese authorities to ensure a positive human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics.

Thousands of Amnesty International supporters from around the world teamed up with Circle Up Now, to create large images on the ground which are only fully visible from above.

From Delhi to Bamako and Asunción, thousands of people in over twenty locations joined together to form words such as "Freedom", "Dignity" and "Justice" representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- which turns 60 on 10 December 2008.

Created on the eve of the anniversary of Beijing being granted the 2008 Olympics, this powerful "visual petition" was an appeal to the Chinese authorities to honour the commitment they made in 2001 to improve human rights.

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• Olympics
• Beijing
• aerial
• art
• amnesty
• international
• amnestyinternational
• human
• rights
• humanrights
• activism
• circleupnow

[cidspb]

why not russia???

[jvanewportnews]

liking the Indian colors

[finaattori]

GO FINLAND!

[JBocchinfuso]

I was really hoping a Canadian one would be there but I gotta say Im not really surprised our lazy canadian asses didnt do shit lol

[rosarola33]

Just to add to previous comment, on a tech level... I could have spent longer looking at each image...

[rosarola33]

How amazing and inspiring is that?! So beautiful to see what a lot of effort went into it all over the world. I loved all the Indian ones and generally just loved all the different ways/words people found to express this issue. Big love! Xx

[ptitragazza]

congratulations!

[wrongloop]

keep it up.

[HADHOUMI]

depuis 2004 j'ai contacté amnesty sous ....

[shiftinaction]

Excellent video and wonderful to see world wide participation...I'm going to post this in our Conscious Shift and Political Shift YouTube groups.