In 2008, the Museum of the Person Network and the network of the Center for Digital Storytelling joined together to create a celebration of life story work in the context of social justice.  The campaign declared May 16, 2008 the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, in part to honor the birthday of noted oral historian, Studs Terkel.  The campaign reached 20 countries and over 100 separate events were held. In 2009, the theme Journeys Toward Justice was chosen to reflect a specific focus on human rights and migration stories for this year's event.  We have chosen to create a twitter/cell phone based project that will begin on this day to collect and map twitter 140 character texts,  as well as image and video testimonials about people who have made a difference in their lives in their or their communities journey toward justice.  Our current website, ausculti.org, will be re-launched in mid-april based on the model of the current site of the Brazil Memory Network (see http://www.bmr.org.br), one of the projects of the Museum of the Person.  Our goal is that by expanding our grassroots campaign around life stories to include, we can expose more and more people to the importance of life story writing and media work in the cause of social justice. In addition: CDS and the Museum of the Person together have 33 years of working with new media and Digital Storytelling.  Both organizations have extensive national and international networks.  CDS has been working with cell phone based media work in its storymapping.org projects for the last four years, the Museum has worked in countless projects based on web applications, but this would be a new area for their organization.

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