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A Very Pixel Project “Thank You”: 25 Fabulous Facebook Pages You Should Check Out and Like

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With the Music For Pixels campaign in full swing as The Pixel Project’s Music Campaigns team and Street Team works on getting us snowballing towards 1 million views of The Rose by our first featured artiste – AHMIR, YouTube’s number one R&B group – we would like to say A HUGE THANK YOU to the following Pixel Project partners, anti-Violence Against Women nonprofits and Facebook pages for their support for the campaign and for helping us get the word out on their Facebook pages (and in some cases, on their blogs and on Twitter).

Be sure to click on their names to check out their Facebook pages – they are listed according to category and in alphabetical order below!

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An Invitation To Musicians: 10 Covers of ‘The Rose’ and Joining the “Music For Pixels” YouTube Cover Carnival

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When AHMIR, the Number 1 R&B group on YouTube, offered to cover ‘The Rose’ for our Music For Pixels campaign, we were delighted because it is a classic song that beautifully articulates the themes of love, hope, courage and the strength to survive. These are themes that are central to many a survivor’s journey to rebuilding and thriving after the violence.

The closing verse in particular says what speaks to many a survivor’s heart and experience:

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun’s love, in the spring
Becomes the rose

Amanda McBroom wrote ‘The Rose’ in 1977 as her answer to the question: “What do you think love is?”. She said:

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LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT: The Pixel Project’s “Music For Pixels” Campaign

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“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” – Billy Joel 

1 April 2012: What if the millions of YouTube music fans and their favourite YouTube artistes got together to support the end to violence against women and girls? The Pixel Project, the award-nominated global volunteer-led virtual non-profit social enterprise working to end Violence Against Women (VAW) worldwide, aims to answer this question with the launch of the Music For Pixels campaign today. It is the first music-based social media charity campaign to exclusively collaborate with YouTube artistes to speak up against VAW through music video PSAs while raising funds for the cause via digital music downloads.

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