by Barista Uno | Mar 24, 2011 | Piracy and Security
We recently did our bit to support the Save Our Seafarers campaign by visiting the SOS website and sending off the online letter of appeal on piracy to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. We wanted to dispatch the template letter to other world leaders but we held ourselves back. Surely, we thought, there are ways to get the politicians to act other than e-mailing petitions, which is a form of spamming. The paddle-for-125-miles campaign of British maritime executive James Tweed is one. Here are a few others: (more…)
by Barista Uno | Mar 4, 2011 | Media, Communications and Language, Piracy and Security
The escalating brutality of Somali pirates is appalling. But we don’t know what to make of the new anti-piracy campaign that was launched on the 1st of March by the same groups behind last year’s End Piracy Now! drive. The campaigners have dubbed it “Save Our Seafarers (SOS)” and they’re calling on people power – by the millions – to pressure governments to crack down on the maritime thugs. Have they been mesmerised by the revolt in Libya against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi? (more…)
