Sun, 27 Apr 2008

Eliant releases 2,000 balloons in advance of Eliant World Day

DORNACH (NNA) – On the same principle as the homing pigeon or the message in the bottle, the Eliant campaign in its latest action released 2,000 balloons from the Goetheanum terrace at the end of last March with a return postcard attached. The campaign aims to collect one million signatures by the end of the year to influence policy-making in the European Union.

And before long, the first postcard did indeed return home. One Vincenzo Alberti (name changed to preserve his privacy) found one of the balloons with a postcard attached during a morning walk eight kilometres from Lugano on the other side of Switzerland.

“He looked at the Eliant website, saw what the action was about and signed,” Heike Sommer from Eliant said in a press release. “In doing so, he joined the campaign being carried out by citizens around the world to give a proper legal basis for the many different anthroposophical cultural impulses in Europe which, in the end, benefit people throughout the world,” the statement added.

The release of the white cloud of balloons in Dornach came ahead of a major event planned to take place on 7 June in collaboration with the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. On World Eliant Day activists will seek to collect signatures “in the streets of every larger city in Europe and in the world”. According to the organisers, each major city or area will have a coordinator.

The aim is to establish a “ripple effect” via youth networks and on the Internet, using platforms such as Facebook and StudiVz.

“”We hope the project will inspire many people to get actively involved,” the organisers said.

Eliant has so far collected over 354,000 signatures.

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Link: www.eliant.eu, www.eliantaction.com

Item: 080427-01EN Date: 27 April 2008

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