Live Blog from World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya:
“Thank you and please don’t stop!”
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I just came from a global forum on poverty in Nairobi, Kenya, where ONE members were given a beautiful painted African plate as an award for your incredible work organizing around the October 15, 2006 Global Day of Action Against Poverty. And this was not the only sign today of how far the word of our work has spread.
This morning I found myself swept up in a procession of the Kenyan Green Movement to a forum led by Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jodi Williams, Wangari Maathai and Dr. Shirin Ebadi, who talked about everything from organizing against poverty to stopping the genocide in Darfur. After the forum, I went up to Wangari’s table and found that her team member was wearing a ONE white wristband. She said that a ONE member gave her the band while visiting their project in Kenya.
The group invited me to a reception for the three women Nobel Laureates tonight and they asked me to tell you: “Thank you and please don’t stop!”
To give you a sense of the spirit here, I thought I would share some highlight quotes from today’s forums:
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All three Nobel laureates were recognized for very different work (banning landmines, protecting the environment and human rights work) but the crux of their messages were the same: That the key to peace will be redefining security as meeting the basic needs of the people of this planet. And, that the key to doing this, is us. In the words of Wangari Maathai, “If you do not have a strong, organized civil society, you can talk, but no one will listen. Governments will only listen to us if we organize ourselves into a movement and demand that our voices are heard.” -
In response to a question in today’s forum on governments’ G8 promises, an Italian member of Parliament responded: “We are breaking them, but it is the building of this alliance of global poverty campaigns that will push governments to turn around and start keeping them.” -
The GCAP (Global Call to Action Against Poverty) Coordinator in Zimbabwe gave a passionate call to arms during the forum, shouting: “The world is not poor because of lack of resources or policy analysis, but because there are not enough people organized.” The crowd shouted back, “then we will organize!” He closed out by saying, “We will wear our white bands because we must create a world without distinction. We will organize people locally and globally, from the slums here in Nairobi, to Washington, DC, to have our voices heard.”
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