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There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers in the world- some abducted,  illegally recruited, and volunteering to avenge their family. These children, some as young as seven or eight, are used as minesweepers, sex slavers, porters, human shields, extra judicial executors, and other dehumanizing tasks. These children are often drugged and forced to rape or witness the rape of families and destroy and ransack villages.

Well, the US Congress is finally able to hear the cries of the over 300,000 child soldiers dehumanized throughout the world.

The Child Soldier Prevention Act 2007 was bi-partisanly introduced into the Senate at the end of April, and currently has 15 cosponsors. This is very important legislation, and marks one of the first times the pressing issue of child soldiers is addressed in Congress.

The act cuts off US military funding, training, and arms supplies to governments which enlist child soldiers. There are currently ten countries who's government is known to recruit child soldiers: Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda. The US provides military assistance to nine of these countries. While this bill will end US aide to these countries, they will be able to regain their US aide after they have made visible efforts to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate child soldiers.

It is so easy to help get this important legislation passed!

Today, July 12 is National Phone-In Day. Scroll down for more information on how to contact your senator, and a template for briefly addressing the issue.

The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers provides a letter template for writing/emailing senators, calling for their cosponsorship of this important bill. It is so easy just to fill out the blanks and copy/paste the letter in a email to one of our senators, or even snail mail them. Senator contact info can be found by scrolling down, just search for your senator.

This is a monumental bill. Do not let taxpayer money be spent on arming or training children! This bill is an effective means of alleviating the use of child soldiers, providing a realistic incentive for countries to demobilize children in their forces for the purpose of bettering their forces.

You can make a difference. Do not sit idle and let this important opportunity pass you by. Stand up for freedom and honor, and represent these children!

If you have not seen "Invisible Children", check it out now! It is a powerful documentary exposing the terrible use of child soldiers by a rebel faction in Uganda.

So, what do you think? Will you help?

Special links and sources
Information on Contacting US Senators
National Phone-In Day
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Letter Template
Young Blood: Children of War: Our website on child soldiers
dA Submission detailing the issue of Child Soldiers
dA Forum Thread About The Issue

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Currently working on...

• PSP 8 Creature Brushes
• "Manhattan Pirate" Drawing
• "The Rocks Would Sing" Drawing (maybe painting?)
• H!Byrd Threads [Clothing Company!]

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[[ Paper Quilts of Living Color ]]
One color collages on 4" by 6" index cards attempting to convey emotion.

• suspecting White
  
• curiously Pink
• indulgence to<ahref="www.deviantart.com/deviation/4…">Red
• savingagent Orange
• soaking in Yellow
• transcendentalist Green
• waiting on Blue
• uncovering Purple
• still Brown
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[[ Dichotomy Acts ]]
A (soon to be continued) series of works depicting cartoonish dichotomy of personified household objects.

• Dichotomy Act I

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[[ Earth 2007 Revolution ]]
{Terminated} My photo journal (and New Year's resolution) documenting each day of 2007. The "rules" are that each picture must be as spontaneous and edit-free as possible. Checkit!

I want to improve, so kritiks are treasured.


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I've went ahead and uploaded some of my photographs, as my scanner is still hibernating. I mainly take pictures for fun, seeing as my photograph skills are the suck. But, please remember:

All comments (especially critiques) and much appreciated- please let me know what you think of my work, I want to improve!

Happy preEaster.

Just a quick update to say I have 3 completed traditionally colored animie-esque deviations, and have about 10 or so pending.. maybe 3 I'll actually finish.

It's just up to me to fix my bipolar, mechanically flawed scanner.

I'm not dead, I promise. Call back the SWATs and the scouts.