Euna Lee and Laura Ling are FREE!!!!!
We’ve been following the news, and twitter, and facebooking with all our friends… and we totally spaced on the blog. Euna Lee and Laura Ling we are so happy that you’re coming home! Sleep, rest… amazing. Thanks Bill Clinton. Today is a good day.
At Angela’s suggestion, flipcam vid of us taking down our sign.
Free Laura Ling and Euna Lee Video Petition
This week our friends and Current TV journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling were sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labor camps. On March 17, 2009, they were captured by North Korean border guards in the Yalu River region that loosely defines North Korea’s border with China. We believe that their capture was unjust, and that their harsh sentence is an outrage.
Please join our video petition to set them free.
It’s easy just click PLAY, then click REPLY in the top right corner, and then record a response.
All you have to do is say your name, say where you live, and hold up a sign that says “Free Laura Ling and Euna Lee“.
If you don’t have a Seesmic account, just sign up it’s easy! If you need help, then CLICK HERE, and we’ll walk you through the whole process.
You will be able to review your video before posting. If you don’t like the first take please try again. It will only post publicly when you give it permission to.
If enough people participate we can create a powerful visual representation of global support for our friends.
Please take a moment and speak out for Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
Laura and Euna Video Petition (Instructions)
Please join our Video Petition to free Laura Ling and Euna Lee from imprisonment in North Korea.
It’s easy just click PLAY, then click REPLY in the top right corner, and then record a response.
All you have to do is say your name, say where you live, and hold up a sign that says “Free Laura Ling and Euna Lee“.
If you don’t have a Seesmic account, just sign up it’s easy!
When you hit reply you’ll see this:
Create a user name, put in your email address, and click JOIN.
You’ll get an activation email. Open it and click the link. The link will take you to Seesmic.com, but don’t log in there. Nothing bad will happen if you do, it’s just easier to come back here and log in to the player. (If the player is giving you error messages, then try going directly to the Seesmic thread.)
Don’t worry that all the registration info you typed is still there on the left side. Just type in your newly registered user name and password, then click LOG IN.
Now wasn’t that easy? You should be either looking at yourself in the video player right now, or being asked for permission to access your webcam. In the case of the latter, click ALLOW. Now you should finally be seeing yourself through the eyes of your webcam. When you’re ready just click the big red record button and join in.
You will be able to review your video before posting. If you don’t like the first take please try again. It will only post publicly when you give it permission to.
If enough people participate we can create a powerful visual representation of global support for our friends.
Please take a moment and lend your voice to the cause.
Free Laura and Euna Video Player is now working
Apologies to everyone that has come to our blog to participate in the Free Laura Ling and Euna Lee Video Petition. The Seesmic player gave almost everyone who tried to register an error message.
The good news is that Loic (the founder of Seesmic) put his staff on it yesterday, and they fixed the problem. I ran some tests last night, and the registration feature on the player seems to be working now.
Lets kick this thing off again. Free Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
Free Laura and Euna Video Project
On March 17, 2009, our friends Laura Ling and Euna Lee were captured by North Korean border guards in the Yalu River region that loosely defines North Korea’s border with China. They were arrested while shooting a story for Current TV about North Korean refugees.
Since then we have been anxiously consuming every bit of news we could get while feeling scared for our friends and also frustrated with our inability to help them.
Today we found out they were sentenced to 12 years in a dismal North Korean labor camp. This simply cannot stand.
This is our call to action:
IMPORTANT If you get an error message at registry try going straight to Seesmic.
Join us. Reply to the video thread above (it will take 2 seconds to sign up for a Seesmic account). Tell us your name, where you live, and hold up a sign demanding the freedom of Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
(edit 6/9/09)
Some people are having trouble signing up to Seesmic. If you can’t get on Seesmic, try Youtube and leave a video response to this video:
Embed these videos, tweet them, and post them on your Facebook. It’s time for everyone around the world to stand up and show support for Euna and Laura. Let’s bring them home.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP via freeroxana.net
FOLLOW ON TWITTER
http://twitter.com/liberatelaura
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60755553149
SIGN THE PETITION FOR THEIR RELEASE
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-euna-and-laura
WRITE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
WRITE YOUR SENATOR
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
WRITE YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
READ AND SUBSCRIBE TO
http://liberatelaura.wordpress.com
Update on Laura and Euna
They’re going to be put on trail for illegal entry into North Korea and hostile acts.
It looks to me like they’re being used as bargaining chips. I hope the U.S. government acts quickly to get them back.
Detained in North Korea
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists for Current TV’s Vanguard unit are missing after being taken into custody by North Korean border guards at the Chinese – North Korean border. They were detained in the Yalu river region while producing a piece about North Korean defectors to China. At the present time their exact whereabouts are unknown. The U.S. State department is working with the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang to get more information.
To learn more about the story read this ABC article.
Both Laura and Euna are friends of TeamJaded. Laura was largely responsible for getting my first pod’s to air at Current. She used her limited budget to send me, an unproven skater kid to Louisiana during the Katrina madness to produce my first significant work. Her help launched me on the path that I’m still following today, and for that she has my eternal gratitude. I have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for her.
So here at TeamJaded our hearts go out to both Laura and Euna. We hope that they are safe and being treated fairly. Hopefully this situation will be resolved quickly.
To Laura and Euna, we are awaiting your safe return.