Live Blog Chat With Muhammad Yunus Tomorrow
January 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm | posted by Virginia SimmonsTune to FireDogLake.com tomorrow for a live chat with Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus.
“Mr. Yunus will be here at FDL to chat live with everyone regarding his new book, Creating a World Without Poverty, from 6 to 8 pm ET (3 to 5 pm PT).”
-Virginia Simmons
January 18th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
We are at an HRC (Human Rights Campaign) event here in Las Vegas in lead up to their much anticipated caucus tomorrow morning. We are chatting with patrons handing out water bottles, bands and t-shirts. We are also signing up local caucus goers to caucus for ONE and submit our ONE plank to their local caucus platform. So for the event is going great, I will update as we go along here in the Silver State of Nevada!
January 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The HRC event is filling up here at the Clarke County government building and our fearless ONE member Michele Meyer coming all the way from Iowa is banding everyone in sight. The excitement surrounding the caucus here in Nevada is reaching its peak and all the campaigns are making their last pitch to get out their candidates supporters. It’s almost decision time and ONE t-shirts and bands will be everywhere all across the state. This is a new experience for most involved here and ONE is lending a hand where we can while getting ONE recognized in each party’s platform.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Kate Walsh has been campaigning around the state for Obama and arrived minutes ago here at the Clarke County Government building. We gave her a band and a sticker talked about ONE and got a photo. There are ONE bands and stickers all around the room!
January 18th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
There are many representatives speaking on behalf of campaigns and issues. Our own Megan Jones spoke on behalf of the ONE campaign and had a great reception. Megan did a great job and articulated what our campaign is all about. Great job Megan! There is much love in the room for ONE Vote ‘08! The event went great and was a very successful productive way to go into the big Silver State caucus. We are ready to end poverty, are you? The fight continues tomorrow.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:28 am
thank you for posting is opportunity ONE. this chat was amazing, what a great time with a awesome group and with the good Dr. Yunus. he spent over an hour online with us in a chat. we discussed matters both inside and outside the book, he is a brilliant thinker. the chat is documented at
http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/19/fdl-book-salon-creating-a-world-without-poverty/
looking at the list of previous chats with authors, it looks like this book salon brings in amazing people to discuss latest bookreleases concerning matters of great interest to us in the war on extreme poverty and hunger.
hope many of you join in on the next author chat, not sure when it will be, but the pregistratioin needs to be done prior to the chat, only takes a few minutes and is free. again, thanx ONE for the notification of this up close time with Dr. Yunus.
stay close,
sammi in seattle =)
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Please leave an account of the live chat you have with Muhammad Yunus. We shall be grateful.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Just making a comment about the important Bill Gates speech today. And delighted to see Yunus and Gates linked up. Gates is merely carrying on the legacy of Carnegie and others. Never mind the sensationalists who take his ideas out of context. It’s not a revision of capitalism he’s after (those are the Journal’s words), it’s more about really taking capitalism back to its roots. If one looks at that original Adam Smith essay Gates mentions, or at Yunus’ work, or at Napoleon Hill’s analysis, then one must conclude that “giving” has always been an essential part of all-out capitalism. However, beyond that, there is also a “poverty mentality” that is crippling many countries and for that matter, many communities right here in America. How can your “ONE” concept address poverty in it’s broadest sense, to include the mentality as well as the condition?