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Four Years. Go. A Campaign To Change The Course of History

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Posted by Films For Action on Dec. 4, 2010
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The goal of Four Years. Go. is to build a global movement of commitment and action that will cause a positive tipping point in humanity’s future by the end of 2014, setting us irreversibly on a new path to a just, thriving and sustainable future for all.

Four Years. Go. is not just a new organization. Rather, it is a new framework—a rallying call—for all organizations and all individuals to step up, to engage, and to shape a new relationship with one another and the Earth.

 

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