Tue 12 Jun 2007
I joined ONE today
Posted by J5 under News , OLPC , Politics , The End of Poverty , developing nations[7] Comments
ONE is a campaign to make poverty history. I found out about it through a news story on the CNN. It is a nice complement to the work I do at OLPC as it focuses on some of the more basic needs outlined by the UN Millennium Goals. What I liked about this particular effort is it is bipartisan, having picked up members from all over the political spectrum. Their One Vote ‘08 initiative is geared towards putting political pressure on all the US candidates towards focusing policy into trying to solve the issues of world poverty. This is a much better strategy than backing one horse in the race and brings change through unity and not division. I’ve signed the declaration, joined the facebook group, and offered to help and am now seeing if there are any like minds who would like to do the same.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:53 am
WE have the wonderfull nature;woods,lakes,mountains and fields,that we must protect.
Pekka
June 12th, 2007 at 3:56 am
The rainforests and water.
Pekka
June 12th, 2007 at 4:04 am
How is this different from what was on makepovertyhistory.org a couple of years back. And all politicians do is pump money into corrupt governments which don’t provide any aid to their people. Look at the tsunami relief fund and how much of it has actually helped..
June 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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Please read Jeffrey Sachs’ book The End of Poverty and then enter the debate instead of mouthing off misconceptions.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Whatever makes you feel good about yourself I guess…
June 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Now you are just trolling – is that what make you feel better?
June 15th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Good on you mate!
The One Campaign replaced Make Poverty History in the USA because people didn’t seem to repond to it as well as in other places, but basically it has the same goals.
Doing your bit to help achieve a more just world is always worthwhile, no matter what anybody says.
You’ll find people come up with all sorts of justifications for not doing anything to help end poverty, usually so tehy feel better about their own lack of action or compassion.