THE AJ ACTION TEAM The AJ Action Team is a group of the world finest businessmen and women, Humanitarians, Civil rights leaders, Ambassadors, film makers, Performers and Artists who have come together under the PAR12 group to help find working solutions to some of the worlds social and economic problems using celebrity, technology, charity, social media and art, to progress the U.N. Millennium Development Goals 2015. The AJ Action Team is specifically set up to work in and from Bermuda as our central hub to the world. Africa is the universally acknowledged priority in reversing poverty, but racial barriers inhibit the responsiveness of dominant institutions. We aim to use the spiritual closure provided by the UN Recognized Middle Passage Monument Project in international waters near Bermuda to break the racial stalemate and focus on solutions.
BE RMUDA IS SEE N A S THE PERFECT PLACE FOR US TO BAS E AND BEGIN OUR MOVE MENT OF CH ANGE FOR S EV ERAL REA SONS .
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The AJ Action team is looking at global solutions that work locally. Solutions that everyday people can see working for them. Bermuda is small enough for us to implement many of our groundbreaking ideas and broadcast them to the entire world. It’s mixed and diverse population mirrors many large urban populations like NY, London, Paris who are experiencing urban violence, social unrest and other social and civil issues amongst their populace. Bermuda is now beginning to experience the same sort of unrest.
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Bermuda is one of the earliest established and longest surviving forms of English constitutional self‐government in the Western Hemisphere, having a 400 year parliamentary tradition (established in 1612) that survived the disruption of the 1707 Acts of Union in Great Britain, the American Revolution and the decolonization era. This means that what is achieved there is achieved under a system of government that many western governments understand and trust and cannot dismiss. Bermuda was settled by English Adventurers to establish a foothold for a "Western Empire" that would compete for prestige with dominant European powers. Over time, Bermuda has evolved into a cosmopolitan island city‐state with the capacity to be a bastion of social reconciliation, peace‐building and creative capitalism for all peoples. Bermuda is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom with a restrictive observer status at most levels of international diplomacy. This rare status enables Bermuda to operate as a strategic "outlier" of "super‐diplomacy" where individual integrity takes precedence over traditional pragmatics. Bermuda's unique balance of natural, technological and human factors has enabled its people to enjoy one of the wealthiest per capita income economies in the world. This unique wealth profile can be leveraged into parallel markets for risk transfer, knowledge management and ecommerce solutions with a high degree of flexibility, agility and efficiency compared to its closest competitors. Bermuda is still an undiscovered island for most people in the West, but there is a universal interest in the infamous "Bermuda triangle" that has been glamorized by Hollywood since the 1950s. This notoriety can be tapped into by entertainment industry players to create a "parallel universe" in popular imagination that facilitates new ideas about creativity and storytelling.
WHAT DO WE AIM TO ACHIEVE?
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There are several goals that the AJ Action team wishes to achieve. That will have far reaching effects globally. We have highlighted the Domes for Homes as our priority to help the people of Haiti who need housing after the earthquake. However Bermudan too need housing as the cost of housing has risen so much in recent years people are now finding themselves unable to afford a place to live. By setting up a special Dome village in Bermuda we hope to establish a hub from which we can deliver these domes to the people in Haiti and all over the world that need them urgently while at the same time providing Domes for homes for the people of Bermuda. Our currently authorized site on Bermuda is Higgs Island. Our aim is not just to provide Domes but to teach people worldwide how they can live in greener way using solar power, waste management etc. The Domes can be used as learning centers, hospitals, nursery’s etc. They can also be used as media hubs and we intend to set up a Dome Tele‐village that will broadcast worldwide from Bermuda. Using our celebrity Icon (Chinese star) Ayi Jihu we shall attract the eyes of the worldwide media and other stars and celebrities to our domes and Bermuda. The AJ Action Team intends to work with local hero’s artists, civil leaders and people to engage the youth and people of Bermuda through social media, music, film and dance. Helping to put Bermuda on the international map for more than its beaches and shorts, but for its culture, music, art and history. The AJ Action Team would call our approach an "eco‐industry" model rather than an "eco‐tourism" model because the green technology at our disposal is needed by permanent/transient residents at the moment, more than tourists. We are also using the technology to introduce new self‐employment skills in both the physical and knowledge industries. We aim to show how these can and will work using Bermuda and therefore be able to take these working solutions global.
HOW WILL WE ACHIEVE OUR GOALS?
The AJ Action Team has established a working relationship with the Ministry of Labour, Home Affairs and Housing, which validates adaption to assist their efforts in as many ways as possible. In addition, we are partnering with A Partnership For Peace to focus on eco‐industry events year round, beginning with the July 2‐4 Festival of Hope, and spiking with the B2B Celebration For Peace Global Awards Ceremony to be held on October 31, 2010‐ 2020, including a Mega‐dome seating at least 500 guests. Ideally, we'll install and "launch" a 24‐hour broadcasting channel from the Televillage on or around April 5, with the promotion for the Festival of Hope weekend, where we'll have a "satellite" Telemediahub set up near the stadium and a rented megadome installed at the airport, duplicating the "permanent" Mega‐dome in Bermuda, hosting a Black Tie audience, as will attend events throughout the Culture Fest Olympiad season (August 1 ‐ October 31, 2010). Commencing July 25th Ayi Jihu (China’s no.1 international R&B Star) FAAVM International Goodwill Ambassador and Sun Earth Energy Special Envoy will arrive in Bermuda along with other members of the AJ Action team to spend time on the ground working with the people, artists, business and government to start focusing the eyes not just of the Western world but of the whole world on Bermuda. Ayi Jihu’s BBC interview has already started the ball rolling. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukchina/simp/entertainment/2010/03/100305_vid_chinesesinger.shtml) Along with her press release/blog (http://ayijihu.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/is‐the‐next‐prominent‐black‐voice‐chinese‐ayi‐jihu) This has already begun turning the eyes of the world towards Bermuda and the issues The AJ Action Team wish to highlight. Working with FAAVM, Ayi Jihu and using social Media platforms like Facebook where we have the support of their Ambassadors we are able to reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide a new audience.
