news_jpop | [Fan Project] "We Want NEWS" Petition !

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Hello dear NEWS-Fans ^___^

As we all know it’s been almost a year now without NEWS (yeah, 2011 was so cruel to us) and that we don’t know exactly what that mysterious reason that keep them away from us, even busier groups (in both solo & group work) can release something every now and then, and apparently the agency sort of forgot about NEWS & about us too, so I thought about it with my sister & we would like to suggest another fan-project hoping we all can participate in it..

it’s a signatures-list or kind of petition (something like this HERE) , but it’s not online petition this time, it’ll be printed on paper & then will be sent to Johnny’s family club monthly starting from next month (October).

To explain what I mean exactly I’ll put it as Q + A style ^___^

What is this project?

It’s a petition to gather as many signatures as we can to express our thought & deliver our voices to the agency & let them know that NEWS are not finished as they are trying to make us feel, and that NEWS’s Fans had to be respected & treated in a better way, not leaving us to the rumors & frustration like that, also it’s another way to support NEWS & push the agency to stop neglecting them in that offending & hurting way they are doing recently.

Also it’ll be a co-operation between all the fans of NEWS, not only the overseas but also the Japanese as well; I hope this project will be shared in all the NEWS fandom to work together in this.

How it will look like?

We already prepared a simple English text and Thanks a lot to the lovely admin Lichan@ ilovetego ♥

who kindly helped us by translating it to Japanese.
We will put the two Messages together in one paper & then will attach another papers with the signatures then print them & put them in an envelope sending it to the address of Johnny’s family club

and it’ll will look like this :

Date : October 2011 ( First Batch )

Title : We need NEWS

It’s almost the end of 2011 and there weren’t any NEWS activity at all.

No Album, No single, No DVD or Live concert
Even magazines photo-shoots we couldn’t see them together in one group shoot like before!

They also don’t have any TV show so we can see them weekly

We miss NEWS so much & Need them in our lives

Specially with the lack of group activity the past few years

WE WANT NEWS as 6 members, WE NEED them as a group

We want them the entire year. And every year

Please make us happy & give back NEWS to us soon

This is the signatures of the Fans who love & support NEWS forever from all over the world

Total signatures till now = ?

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The Japanese Text:

開始日:10月2011年 ( First Batch )
署名プロジェクトタイトル：我々はNEWSが必要!

2011年の終わりが近づいて来てもNEWSからの活動は何もないです。今年は前みたいにグループとしてアルバム、シングル、DVDやライブコンサート、それから雑誌の写真撮影が見れませんでした。
NEWSはバラエティー番組がなくて毎週見れません。
私達はNEWSがいなくて寂しいです。NEWSが必要なんです。
私達は6人のNEWSが欲しいです。グループでいて欲しい。一年中と毎年NEWSから幸せの時間が欲しいです。
これは世界中からのファンの署名です。
現在の署名数：？

1- Ebtehal – (26) Cairo, Egypt
2-
3-
4-
etc...

How I can participate?

It’s really simple, all you have to do is to comment here (or send me E-mail to collen.eqla3@gmail.com )

with only your basic info just like that :

Example : Real Name (Age) - city - country

so we can put them together on the petition then print it & send it.

When this petition should be sent?

This time only we will begin to collect the signatures from today till 10 Oct

Then Every month we will be collecting new signatures from 1 to 10 of the month

and will prepare the petition (by adding the new signatures with the old ones we collected earlier in previous months ) to be sent on 15 of the month, as we have to make sure they will receive it before the end of each month, also it’s important not to skip any month from now on .

What else new? We have already many fan-projects!

Yes it’s not a new thing; also it’s not a replacement for any of the lovely fan projects that had been arranged here like:

* The monthly post card campaign: HERE
* "To say NEWS” project : HERE

* Never.Ending.World.Supportive (N.E.W.S.) Fans Project: HERE

* NEWS 70,000 signatures Fan Project (for the 10th anniversary in 2013) : HERE

so it’s basically a new step on the way to achieve what we all want & need ,so we can work on those many ways at once, but all we need is to be united & make it happen, so you don’t have to stop doing any other project you are already committed to do

Actually we are participating in some of them already - and trying our best to participate in the rest ^^ - ,and we are really grateful for all the hard work that had been done so far.

What the difference between this & any other projects?

1- It’s only a “complemented step” NOT a replacement for them at all ,so please notice that.

2- it just will grantee some kind of stability for the number of the people who are participating ,as this petition meant to be printed & sent each month with the same number of signatures or even with many more if we can ,but if we couldn’t collect new ones the existing signatures will be enough.

so it’ll be like a monthly demand, and to not be considered as spam from the Agency, we will change the month (& add the new signatures if there any) ,and will let them know about the number of the signatures each time ,and when they found out that it came from all over the world from different fans inside & outside Japan maybe that will awake them !

3- It’s easier & will not cost a thing, all you have to do is tell us your basic info only

So even if you are so busy and your daily life is killing you – like we all are – you’ll find a minute or two to add your name & info just for once & if you give us the permission we will be sending it each month along with other signatures of the petition without requesting it from you each time.

4- You’ll not have to think of any content for the message you want to write, or to think if it should be in English or Japanese, then you’ll try to translate it & ask for help.. etc

It’ll be a standard message written in both languages to let them know that we are not all Japanese, but also foreign fans who love & support NEWS forever.

What the point? There is no way we can carry on this project you are suggesting!

What do we have to lose? ^__^ it won’t cost us anything at all,

Also maybe it’ll be a help for the boys to let the agency know that there are many fans who are waiting for NEWS no matter what happen.

let’s do another big project like the amazing “Hoshi wo mezashite” that was really great & we all felt so passionate & happy to be part of it

and even if the results hadn’t been shown yet, but all the e-shops were aware & surprised with this movement of NEWS Fans all over the world & somehow we send our message that when we are united, organized & enthusiastic we can do anything ^O^

If you liked the idea, and even if you can’t participate for any reason, please spread the word over on twitter..tumblr..facebook..etc , not only in the English fandom or the overseas fandom, but also in the Japanese fandom if you can ^___^

We had collected 100 signatures from our fandom so far ^O^

P.S : We have some ideas about how to keep this project alive & to not make it attached to particular someone\group, but I’ll explain it later to not cause any confusion now ^ ^,so please check back to this post for any update \ more details about this project

So sorry for the long post *shy* & for my not so good English >____<

Thank you so much in advanced ^O^

Have a lovely day Minna-san

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UPDATE 1 : YAY~~ We passed 220 Signatures ^O^, 120 Signatures only in 24 hours *teary eyes*,Thank you so much for your your participation and enthusiasm

Keep up the good work amazing NEWS Fans ♥♥♥

* For The Arabic version of this project : HERE

* For the Spanish version of this project : HERE

Please share with us other versions of the project in your native language - if you had done any - so we can add them to the master-post here & help all NEWS fans to spread the word ^__^

* If you don't have the time to do your own post & want to re-blog the project on tumblr : HERE

UPDATE 2 (29-09-2011) : Yosh~ WE reached 300 Signatures ,I'm so proud of all the hard work you do guys ♥,let's do our best to bring them back to us , if you can spread this project between all your friends & family who love NEWS,over on twitter..tumblr..facebook..etc , please do , and it'll be great if you make them participate too.

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