It's time to vote...again

Hello everyone,

I know it's been a while, but I'd like you to see some films, and vote (hopefully for my film). Essentially I'm a finalist in an international film competition to help regulate the selling/trafficking/loaning/lending/giving or small arms to conflict and post conflict countries. It's been a wild ride, the making of this last film, and I can't say it was pleasant... and the fight goes on. So the competition is called shooting poverty and i am one of three finalists. Email me for more details, otherwise I'd love it if you go to this site and watch, then vote. Any confusion drop me another email... I'm happy to help make voting easier. Check out the link below:

http://www.shootingpoverty.org/

Seth on behalf of the Bang for your Buck crew

Trade your gun in for a mobile phone!

Burundi collected nearly 14 000 weapons in a nationwide campaign to disarm the civilian population and ensure elections next year will be peaceful.

The tiny central African country of 8 million people is emerging from more than a decade of civil war that killed 300 000 people.

"The different arms collected from October 19 to 28 include guns, hand grenades, bombs, mines and ammunition," Leopold Banzubaze, deputy chairman of the national board in charge of disarming the civil population.

"The campaign has been successful. We hope that the 2010 election will be held in peace and security," Banzubaze said.

The national board in charge of disarmament reckons 70 000 weapons have been collected since 2007, out of an estimated 100 000 weapons in the hands of civilians.

President Pierre Nkurunziza had set a one-week deadline for people who possess weapons to hand them in or face severe penalties such as 10 years in prison or a hefty fine.

Those who gave up their weapons voluntarily received building materials such as iron sheets and cement, clothes and mobile phones.