Wednesday, November 25, 2009

One Color Unites Us: Cities go (RED) on World AIDS Day

On World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2009, cities will go (RED)™. This includes our millions of supporters, our partners, their products, their thousands of stores, our websites, their websites, our media partners, and, iconic landmarks around the world. When Bono and Bobby Shriver founded (RED), their intent was to bring the power of consumers, the private sector and the public sector together to eliminate AIDS in Africa. In that spirit, leaders from cities are helping us bring awareness to the AIDS pandemic by turning their cities (RED) on World AIDS Day.

What does it mean to go (RED)? In a show of solidarity, 13 cities are illuminating landmarks the color RED for the day. Here are the cities and landmarks to watch out for. If you’re in the area take a picture and post it on our Facebook wall: www.facebook.com/joinred.

Baltimore, MD: The Washington Monument in Baltimore
Boston, MA: The Zakim Bridge
Chicago, IL: CNA Building. The AIDS ribbon and the words “FIGHT AIDS” in lights on the side of the building
Columbus, OH: City Hall & the Columbus Public Health Building will be (RED) for the entire week!
Dublin, Ireland: City Hall
London, England: the London Eye and the Trafalgar Square Fountain
Los Angeles, CA: the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles and the pylons around LAX airport
Pittsburgh, PA: the City & County Building and the needle on top of the Highmark Building
Providence, RI: City Hall, 1 Financial Plaza, 111 Westminster Street and the Skating Center at Kennedy Plaza
Salt Lake City, UT: The City & County Building
San Francisco, CA: City Hall & Coit Tower
St. Louis, MO: Civil Courts Building
Torrance, CA: Girl Skate Park

Enjoy the (RED) skyline for the night! Check out what these cities might look like on December 1st…

Los Angeles, CA: the pylons at LAX


San Francisco, CA:
City Hall & Coit Tower


Stephanie @ (RED)

15 comments:

Robin said...

I see New York are not one of the cities illuminating their landmarks in red for world aids day tomorrow. The question, off course, is WHY NOT. New York of all places with its diversity of cultures should be showing the way.
Has Bloomberg seen this article????

Anonymous said...

I'm shocked and disappointed that the CN tower-Toronto, Canada is not on your list. Wish I knew someone to contact at the CN tower to tell them to turn the lights red tonight!!

Elly said...

i just asked one of our local seattle folks if one of our landmarks would light up. will see what they say!

Anonymous said...

STL YEAH! Too bad I don't know where the civil courts building is...

Jodi said...

I too would have liked to seen NY participate, perhaps Empire State all red tonight...any updates on NY?

Jodi said...

I too would have liked to seen NY participate, perhaps Empire State all red tonight...any updates on NY?

Ekim said...

Actually according to http://www.cntower.ca/plan_your_visit/attractions/night_lighting/ they are going to go Red today.

Anonymous said...

STL; The Civil Courts building is the tall building with the pyramid top right by Kiener Plaza.

10 North Tucker Boulevard

RJ said...

Yes Boston! PERFECT.

Nick said...

the BT tower in London is lit up in red with a message on top.

Pete London said...

London also has the Centre Point which went RED from Blue today! and also the massive BT TOWER turned RED with a moving banner and lots of lights!

London did (RED) Proud! x

n* said...

I saw Empire State red last week, but not sure on what day was that...

Anonymous said...

The CN Tower is going to have red lights tonight - it's just not on the above list...

GarthsWorld said...

looking out my window, Empire State Building is lit in white. Not impressed.

Natasha said...

Yes seeing that New York is the city with the highest number of infected ppl. But I'm out of Dallas and tx is the 4th most infected state, nor did we have a landmark lit. Not even the Reunion Tower. My 6th graders all called one by one to ask but was turned down each time.... So they decided to turn our school red today, and boy did they ever! They all wore their (RED) shirts and every teacher was dressed in Red. Red ballons and signs everywhere! I was so proud of them.