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GCJ Community Picnic, 8/22 5 to 9 pm

Come join us for Ghanaian dance lessons, music, international potluck and fun! At Seward Park, Shelter #1

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GCJ Picnic! All volunteers, delegates, supporters of GCJ are welcomed. We’ll have music, singing, and dance lessons from Awal Alhassan, an extraordinary dancer from Ghana. Bring your instruments! We’ll be right at the water’s edge, so be ready to play in and out of the water (We have covered shelter no matter what the weather brings) Bring food and drink to share — especially with an international flavor. We’ll gather at Shelter #1 (near the play area just south of the Environmental Education Center, near the lake, at Seward Park from 5 to 9 pm on Friday, August 22nd.

GCJ In The News

Global Citizen Journey Press Kit

May 21, 2008: The Seattle Times ran a story “Crude Times in the Niger Delta” about the situation there, and Sandy Cioffi’s film, “Sweet Crude.”

April 1, 2008: The Ballard News Tribune ran a story “Group to help bring clean water to tiny central African nation” about our upcoming Burundi Journey.

March 30, 2008: The Bellingham Herald ran a story on Barbara Gilday’s journey to Ghana.

January 9, 2008: The Daily Guide, a prominent newspaper in Ghana, ran a story, “Hand-Washing Promoted in Schools,” which mentions GCJ and delegate Jeannie Birchall.

November 19, 2007: Prosper Ndabishuriye, the founder of Youth for a New World/JRMD, our partner organization in Burundi, was recently in the US presenting on the work that his organization is doing to help heal wounds caused by ethnic strife. Read with the Seattle Times had to say.

News from the field

April 20, 2008 After being detained by the Nigerian State Security Services while filming in the Niger Delta, the Sweet Crude team has been returned home safely. Read more.

Take a look at the Ghana blog.

GCJ’s inaugural journey was a resounding success and the Niger Delta Friendship Library is now open for business. Check out photos and reports from our adventure. Read the article in the Boeing Corporate Philanthropy Report (page 30). Boeing was a significant sponsor of the Nigeria 2005 journey.

A group of alumni from the Nigeria 2005 journey are working to establish a microlending program to serve the women of Oporoza and surrounding communities. Read about the project.

GCJ media coverage

Read what the the Seattle Times has to say about Prosper’s October visit
Environment, Conflict and Cooperation: Oil Firms Blamed for Niger Delta Crisis
Hear a radio segment on GCJ & the Niger Delta - KBCS “One World Report” 11.24.05
Niger Delta Friendship Library: Oporoza’s Dividend of Peace - Daily Independent, Nigeria
Enduring Impact of Oporoza Library Project - Daily Independent, Nigeria
Subtle Diplomacy - Real Change News
Diplomacy: Seattleites to Build Relationships in Oil-rich but Ravaged Nigeria - Real Change News
Americans Break Wall of Jericho between Ijaw, Itsekiri - The Vanguard, Nigeria
Peace Group to Accomplish Volumes…Literally - KOMO 1000 radio news
Grassroots Group Seeks World Change - Magnolia News / Queen Anne News
Women Go on a Mission of Peace - Everett Herald
A Library, a Bridge to Peace - Spiral Dynamics newsletter
Evergreen Citizen Susan Partnow - Mercury Uprising: Healing Global Hotspots - Evergreen Monthly
Around the Sound: Giving - Seattle PI
He Gives Them a Voice - South Whidbey Record
Bridging the Cultural Divide - North Seattle Herald-Outlook
New Nonprofit Global Citizen Journey Builds Global Neighborhoods - Seattle Dept. of Neighborhoods Newsletter

Catch up on past issues of our newsletter

Learn more about oil issues in the Niger Delta

NPR series on the Niger Delta

NPR’s Steve Inskeep spent two weeks in the Niger Delta, destination of the GCJ 2005 delegation, and broadcast a series of stories focused on oil production and its ramifications. If you missed them on the radio, they are posted online along with many photographs and special web features.

Blood and Oil - NY Times editorial 4.16.06
Strangers in the Dazzling Night: A Mix of Oil and Misery - NY Times 12.9.05
Oil and Corporate Recklessness in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region by Joel Bisina, GCJ Nigeria 2005 Host Country Director
Why Women are at War with Chevron: Nigerian Subsistence Struggles Against the International Oil Industry
Legal Action to Stop Nigeria Gas Flaring
Oporoza: Beckoning for Aid, by Tunke-Aye Bisina

Read our news releases

March 2006: Grassroots Approach Makes Peace and Change in Volatile Niger Delta
October 2005: Puget Sound Residents Broker Peace and Partnerships in Oil-Rich Niger Delta: Grassroots Citizen Diplomacy Accomplishes What Governments Can’t or Won’t
March 2005: Global Citizen Journey To Build First Niger Delta Library and Bridges of Understanding

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Check out the latest wish list for ways to help GCJ, support our work in Nigeria and plan for future journeys.