Grove Dedication from a Link Viewer "There is a canyon of Willow Creek in Humboldt County, just a mile before it joins the Trinity River, where I used to fish as a child. A highway improvement project after a flood 50 years ago closed the upper 12 miles of salmon spawning beds at an area called the Forbidden Zone. Unmitigated landslides have prevented salmon from returning to their natural habitat, but we have begun the process of healing the slides by planting the slides with redwoods. The first grove we have named in honor of Link TV, our Link to the Future Grove. We placed 400 redwoods in the Link Grove along with native grasses, clover and shrubs. In the spring we'll have a plaque to commemorate our admiration and thankfulness for Link TV." - Patrick Shannon, Link TV Viewer
Photos show tribal members Tic-mil and Will Bear and sf freelance writer, Chris Roberts, who lived in a cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Zone, the young fellows who planted the steep slopes on the far side.
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A Standard of Voluntary Simplicity Long time Link TV viewer and supporter Gerald Iversen has been involved in non-profit organizing for over 35 years. As the former Executive Director of a national non-profit he's had the opportunity to travel around the US and address groups about the five life standards of Voluntary Simplicity:
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Evidence of Humanity Don Baker and his wife Kolea started an online advocacy organization called Evidence of Humanity to promote public awareness and cultivation of social and environmental well-being. From years of volunteer work, they felt it was important to supplement a regular dose of positive happenings with the usual steady diet of negative news to which people have become accustomed. As part of this mission Don and Kolea felt it was important to created a page on their site dedicated to Link TV as an example of a non-corporate, unfiltered, and more hopeful news source that their visitors could access.
ACTIVATE YOURSELF!
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Thus, he decided to take action to help people discover Link TV, instead of leaving it up to chance, by writing a letter to the editor of his local paper, the Idaho Statesman, and placing an ad in Boise Weekly, proclaiming Link TV for public awareness. Larry also personally urges people to locate the broadcast schedule online and watch streamed programming there if Link isn't carried in their area.
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Amy Howard, a busy single mother from Tennessee, has long been a fan of Link TV. She watches Mosaic every night with her son, Caelen Willow, who has become his 5th-grade classroom's resident expert on Middle Eastern politics. When she recently tuned in and saw Counting on Democracy and our coverage of the Republican National Convention, this first-time voter had a vision.
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Link TV viewers and avid Ducati racers Wendy Hogg and Mark Sutton woke up one morning and turned on Link TV. They were mesmerized by the story of two Tibetan boys crossing the Himalayas to escape living under the repressive Chinese government. Escape from Tibet so moved Mark, that Wendy knew she had to find out how to help the boys, and to further her own commitment to the international Buddhist community.
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A former professor of Link’s Production Manager Heather Hurford at College of Marin, Ron Gaiz is a one-man academic marketing machine for Link, using Link in his classroom and advertising Link TV on his school website. In the fall of 2007, Ron even suggested an extra credit project to his students to analyze and critique Link programming, and he sent these on to us!
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“This is a great example of the power of Link's network.” – Kim Spencer (President, Link TV)
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Action Hits the Road Pablo Sanders of Kansas City, Missouri wants to use his van as “a moving billboard of alternative news resources”. As you can see, he already has Democracy Now, and we’ve sent him the files so that Link TV will be on the other side. He should be sending the picture with the van and Link graphic shortly!
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Link TV President Kim Spencer empowers viewers to spread the word. Tell us how you discovered Link TV and how you've inspired others to watch, too! Email Kim at yourstory@linktv.org.