Take Action: Keep the G8 to their Word
June 27th, 2008 at 1:43 pm | posted by Weldon Kennedy
The G8 - a group of the world’s most powerful countries consisting of the US, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Russia - are meeting in a couple of weeks for their annual summit.
Having this many leaders in one place at one time always gives us a great chance to pressure them to do more for the world’s poorest people, especially when you consider that most of these countries are not keeping promises they have already made to increase development assistance.
This year, we’re working to remind these leaders that fighting poverty works. Thanks to global efforts so far, 2 million people are receiving lifesaving AIDS medications and 29 million African children, once denied a basic education, are now in school. The problem is that over 72 million children are still out of school, and in 2007 AIDS killed 2.1 million people.
Please take a moment to sign our petition to the G8 and ask them to continue to the global success against poverty by delivering on their commitments to the world’s poor.
We’ll be delivering our petition along with some of our allies in Japan just head of the G8, and will make sure to bring you coverage of the deliver when it happens.
-Weldon Kennedy
June 27th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Dear G8,
I am writing this to ask you if you could
please help contribute in saving the lives
of many people. There are many places in
the world that are living in porverty, if you
can please help them because they are in
need.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hi Markicia,
Please sign our petition and add the comment you left above in the comments on the petition.
http://www.one.org/2008g8/
We’re so happy to have your support.
Ginny
June 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Petitions are nice & contacting our politicians is really a polite way to go in trying to accomplish our goal of the end of AIDS and extreme poverty in the world. But my question is: do any of these politicians take us seriously anymore?
More importantly, are we SERIOUS about accomplishing our goal?
These are very IMPORTANT questions that I feel that we have to ask ourselves after today’s hold-up on PEPFAR by Sen. DeMint.
We need to think about what we are doing and what ends are being accomplished by the tactics that we are currently using.
I don’t have all the answers, but I can see that some of what we have done in years past AS ONE needs to be updated (changed) to achieve our goal in the future.
Times change/people change/conditions in the world have changed in the last few years - we. as a movement, need to change also if we want to keep up with the race.
Otherwise, I fear that we might start falling behind and that would be tragic - mostly for the millions of African lives that we are carrying on our backs.
If we fail them, we will also fail ourselves.
The only good thing about this afternoon is that the b-day party celebration in London’s Hyde Park for Nelson “Madiba” Mandela has been shown live online at www.46664.com.
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie
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