You joined Global Voices in June, 2007.

I join the throng of people on the bridge and we wait and wait.

Global Voices (GV) Tell us a bit about yourself and how you joined GV.

I also joined Global Voices four years ago or a little bit less.

When I moved to Boston, I joined a group called the World Sculpture Racing Society.

I lately joined GV MENA family as an author and translator.

I can't remember exactly when but I think it goes back to my early twenties when I first joined the ranks of repressed Jordanian journalists.

By taking action, you are not showing your concerns only, but you join thousands of activists around the world to save Syrian civilians lives.

In February 2009 I joined GV as a volunteer translator from English to Arabic, afterwards I became author and Arabic Lingua editor.

I experienced this firsthand when I joined a protest organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers against a Wendy s fast food outlet in New York City s Union Square.

After several months of job hunting, I joined my brother in a business venture buying and selling apples, honey, and other goods in neighboring Tajikistan.

George W. Bush wrote in his autobiography, my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society so secret, I can't say anything more.

I joined GV in the second half of 2007. At that time, Egyptian bloggers had an electronic mailing group and we heard that GV needed new authors from Egypt.

Twenty years ago, I myself opposed opening Japan s agricultural market. I even joined farmers representatives in a rally in front of Japan s Diet.

Concerned that the Bush administration might be misleading everyone about the Iraq war s costs, just as it had about Iraq s weapons of mass destruction and connection with Al Qaida, I teamed up with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert at Harvard, to examine the issue.

One bitterly cold March day, I joined a few friends on a trip to the former camp. Built in the early 1940s as a regular labor camp, Perm 36 was converted into a concentration camp for political prisoners in 1972.

And things got better and better, and within three or four months, I was discharged from that hospital, and I joined a group of surgeons where I could work with other people in the community, not in New Haven, but fairly close by.

Three weeks ago, I joined a group of five Nobel laureates and three distinguished economists to undermine one of those excuses, by providing information about where money can achieve the most good.