“MDG Blogging Day” is Tomorrow
A post from Mike of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation on their “MDG Blogging Day” tomorrow.
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The biggest barrier to making poverty history is letting people know it can be done. Tomorrow, with the power of your blog, you can help change that.
Most Americans don’t know that eight years ago the United States and 188 other nations ratified the Millennium Development Goals 8 goals that represent the largest concerted effort ever to end extreme poverty. Tomorrow, world leaders will meet at the UN to tell us what we already know, that we’re far behind on meeting these goals by the target date of 2015 and that most of the rich nations of the world (the U.S. included) are not keeping the promises we made in aid, trade and debt relief.
The Millennium Development Goals are the best hope we have ever had of making poverty history. And it’s up to us to spread the word about what ONE can do to make them happen.
That’s why tomorrow — Sept. 25 — Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation are asking you to join with bloggers around the world to post about making poverty history. More than 300 bloggers have signed up already. Your post can be whatever you like. It can be information about the MDGs. It can be a story of extreme poverty from your own life or travels. It can be a poem, a podcast, a video clip, a jpg of a piece of art, a prayer, an open letter to your leaders … whatever your way of raising your voice to let people know about the 1.2 billion people who live on less than $1 a day — and that it is within our grasp to lift them out of that poverty if we act now, if we act courageously, if we act as ONE.
All you have to do is go to www.mdgbloggingday.org and follow the instructions, add a badge to your blog, and join the webring. Then on Thursday, pour your passion into your post … and help make poverty history by letting people know that, if we work as one, it can be done.
You can take your pick of the badge you want to use as art with the post from the ones here.
-Mike Kinman, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
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September 26, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Screw the other “poor countries” of the world; what about taking care of things here at home in America? How about getting Healthcare under control here first?… How about stemming poverty in the United States first?… Who’s going to come to the aid of America once our society “implodes”; which it’s on the very edge of ecomomically, politically, resource-wise, healthcare-wise, employment-wise, illegal-immigration/iinvasion-wise, militarily, and so on. Let’s get America in propper shape first before helping strangers of the world. C’mon.
October 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm
In 2008, isn’t the time right for the United States of America to re-focus attentions and resources to aid and assist the needs of our Domestic poor and those in need, and finally begin to give less to those in foreign lands?
November 18, 2009 at 12:04 am
Странно, мне кажется, что я уже где-то видел подобное, что скажете комментаторы?
November 27, 2009 at 4:09 am
В этом что-то есть. Большое спасибо за помощь в этом вопросе.
December 6, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Thanks for including my article in the list, Ali!
Like you say, hopefully it’ll be useful to people thinking about purcashing Thesis; make sure you keep checking back for future posts! Also, the Blogussion post is awesome! Seriously, that site seems to get better and better every time I visit! 
December 14, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Отличная работа
December 15, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Для более подробного и внимательного изучения добавил в избранное. Буду изучать