{"id":119578,"date":"2020-10-20T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/372190"},"modified":"2020-10-20T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:05:00","slug":"french-charity-steam-z-event-raises-6-7-million-for-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/french-charity-steam-z-event-raises-6-7-million-for-amnesty-international\/","title":{"rendered":"French charity steam Z Event raises $6.7 million for Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French charity stream Z Event has raised over&nbsp;\u20ac5.7&nbsp;million ($6.7 million) for Amnesty International, breaking its previous record of roughly \u20ac3.5 million ($4.1 million).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/streaming\/news\/french-charity-stream-z-event-raises-5-million-euros-for-amnesty-international\">As reported by Dot Esports<\/a>, the annual event sees a bunch of popular French streamers get together for a marathon gaming session that&#8217;s broadcast on Twitch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the fifth installment, and despite being held during a pandemic that&#8217;s left many people dealing with financial uncertainty it managed to raise a record amount for charity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A number of notable names praised the efforts of those involved, including French president Emmanuel Macron who told organizers to be proud of their efforts in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/1317964944709718018\">short tweet<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can be proud! Proud to have mobilized more than \u20ac5.7 million&nbsp;(a record!) To uphold human rights with Amnesty. Proud to have shown that by being united and in solidarity we can accomplish great things,&#8221; he wrote (via Google translate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French charity stream Z Event has raised over&nbsp;\u20ac5.7&nbsp;million ($6.7 million) for Amnesty International, breaking its previous record of roughly \u20ac3.5 million ($4.1 million).&nbsp; As reported by Dot Esports, the annual event sees a bunch of popular French streamers get together for a marathon gaming session that&#8217;s broadcast on Twitch.&nbsp; This was the fifth installment, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}