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Hi there!

As the Armenian Genocide remembrance day gets closer, I’ve decided to share an idea with you, the reader.
Twitter.com has an hourly updated ‘trends’ list for popular words or phrases posted in ‘tweets’. What does that mean? Well, it means more recognition and teaching from our side.
Ladies and gentlemen, Armenians or not, if you use Twitter, for the next week or so, let’s all post daily tweets mentioning the hashtag: #armeniangenocide.
All you have to do is write something about the Armenian Genocide, and instead of writing ‘Armenian Genocide’ like that.. all you have to do is make it an: #armeniangenocide.
What does this do? This, if posted enough times on these days, might get that phrase trending, and when a phrase trends, the phrase shows up on the homepage of TWITTER.COM!!!!!
The trend already started, but with us holding each others’ hands and doing this together, we can get it to trend on the homepage. Here is what a person, non-familiar with the Armenian Genocide history or facts, will see when they search for or click on the #armeniangenocide.
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23armeniangenocide

If you don’t know, the Armenian Genocide took place during the early 1900s and cost us as much as a million and a half Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire, while the rest were sent out on marches that went straight from Armenia to Iran and other Arabic countries such as Syria and Lebanon. My family walked from Armenia to Iran to Iraq all alone, and every other Armenian can tell you their family’s history. The genocide has still not been recognized by the U.S., let’s push for that. The 1.5 million human beings deserve at least that much respect. If this genocide is unrecognized, how many will happen because of the lesson we teach them about consequences?

Here’s the facebook event page for this campaign:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195053990538545
Please pass this word around. I’m sure we have enough Armenians who are willing to do this than #imsinglebecause and #biebergonewild.

Let’s do this.
Post and pass the word and invite others. We need this. Especially on April 24th it self. Imagine the amount of media coverage that this will get all over the U.S. not just the local channels.

Thank you by the way!
-Apo –  @gr8apo

Hi there, guess who’s back ? =)
It’s been a while since I wrote a personal update, but now is the time you all love. [Cough].
Okay, so, I’ve been working on a much anticipated project, previously called Unheard Voices, now called Yergat, for the past 3 years. Ideas come and go. A lot had happened but I did not mess around with the project and decided to keep it until my financial and promotional back is covered. I believe that the time is close by and I need to pick up with the project. I’ve seen many Turkish documentaries against the “Armenian claims” being promoted on random websites online, and I think it is time we show them who we are. I think it is time to also remind our selves of who we are.

Fellow non-Armenian readers, you might get lost here, but I need you to stick with me as well. My idea of a documentary is not the usual historical facts, but today’s Armenians’ point of view. The life we live now. The hiphop fan and the punk rockstar’s ideas generated into this documentary. We are no longer eye-witnesses like our grandparents were, but we definitely have a culture we proudly represent. A culture we always incorporate in our daily lives and work. We represent our history through art, whether we intend to or not.

I have a strong vision of where this documentary is going, and I need your help supporting it. Yergat is not sponsored. I do not believe in companies paying me a specific amount of money in order to mention their names or say things in support of them. Yergat will be a free independent documentary based on what the camera sees, not on what I aim the camera at. So if that’s the purpose, and you’re doing it for the cause, you’re more than welcome to donate and sponsor Yergat.

Please spread the word and start helping me out. If you take out your credit card and donate $1, it could do so much for Yergat. There are about half a million Armenians in California alone, if 5,000 people from the 500,000 (1%) donated $1 each, I can still have a movie to showcase. I can still make this documentary into a reality. I can still produce something for the non-Armenian to watch and learn. Yergat needs about $6,000 to stand up on its own feet. I updated www.yergat.com and added a widget [the same as you see below this article] and it already received $10. 1/600 is our progress. I believe hand in hand we can all make it. Please contribute. Buying these equipment will not limit me to Yergat only but many documentaries and works to come.

The Armenian Genocide should get recognized. 1,500,000 Armenians perished during that period, and the world should know.

Thank you,
Your support is highly appreciated.
Apo Avedissian