Mobilization to End Poverty
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We just witnessed a historic election that has the possibility of transforming American politics and our world for the better. President Obama has already committed to cutting domestic poverty by half in ten years and achieving the Millennium Development goals that will dramatically reduce extreme global poverty. But as people of faith and conscience our work is not over.
Even the most committed president will face incredible pressures and obstacles in making domestic and global poverty reduction a priority, particularly during this economic crisis. As active supporters of ONE’s important efforts to end global poverty and treatable diseases, I’d like to invite you this April to The Mobilization to End Poverty – a gathering where thousands of faith-based and other anti-poverty leaders will engage in a transformative experience of education, worship, community, and activism in Washington, D.C.
With the support from ONE and other sponsors ranging from World Vision and Convoy of Hope to Oxfam, this initiative is shaping up to be one of the largest and most diverse anti-poverty coalitions. Together we’ll call on President Obama and the new Congress to make overcoming global poverty a political priority and to develop a national plan that addresses this moral and spiritual crisis. Obama has been invited to speak among other leaders.
The Mobilization to End Poverty is just the beginning of an ongoing initiative dedicated to transforming the spiritual will of committed people into the political will of our government that ends extreme poverty. And we need you to be there, every step of the way.
I hope you’ll take the time to check out www.sojo.net/mobilization for more information and support this movement by registering.
-Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis is the founder and president of Sojourners, the largest network of progressive Christians in the United States focused on the biblical call to social justice. Wallis is also author of the New York Times bestseller God’s Politics, which electrified Americans hungry for a new kind of politics in America. His latest New York Times bestseller is The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America.
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February 26, 2009 at 8:04 pm
harika parcalar nazar deymesin arkadaslar dunyanin enguzel sarkicisina saygiduymamiz gerk deyilmi bu shampion arkadasimzda bizler icin calisiyor gecesini gunduz ediyor ona tesekurler.ama onun kiymetini bilmeliyiz arkadaslar onun sesine herkes hayran bedada cok hayranim busarkiciya dikkatediniz,teskurler bunlari okudunuz icin.
February 27, 2009 at 4:31 am
Little think :
I think it is hard not to complain of poverty, while it is not easy to be proud of wealth, but I also believe that the voice of poverty is full of stimulation, ideas, and new concrete; poverty brings the best ideas and calls to the richness of listen, if you want to distribute better, about getting into the game with a different culture and sportsmanship.
Beating poverty renders wealth and better now that wealth is in crisis, economic choices bizarre, considering the poor and the rich will return! Bobby63
Others consideration :
Care persons or groups of people
there are not many excuses in the face of poverty or (mal distributed social wealth).
Poverty is sown in many fields of our planet, not only in Chad or Somalia or in Botswana or Paraguay. The Capocabana to find (and yet have a Christ who watches them), the center of Manila, on the streets of Milan or NY (lift your head, if you walk and look into the eyes of the people), in Locri ( Italy )Land roads dell ‘Umbria Region (test to imagine without San Francisco and Benedict of Norcia, without money to farm without these opportunities, what would be its engine – the waterfalls of Marmore!)
Donate money to an action often is a sense within the plot, give love and hope can not be virtual, a euro a sms is like a televoting, aseptic and disagreeable, is not enough for what I say!
Stop, reflect, think about their films shot here and a rifare ciak might be more useful, do not take seriously anything you do, there is always someone who could do it differently! Do not live your importance, alive to the importance of a living creature!
Changes the movements of your life if you have “exaggerated” and if all you want, everything is based on compliance with the conditions of your life like on the kindness then fortified, arise and walk.
How many messages, how many shirts, how many bracelets, how many groups, how many concerts, as if movements think that ” By We are the world to Ours Days “, poverty should be just a memory.
On the contrary it is a continuous drama, a scourge that creates malaffare and diseases, disasters, social source of wealth for others, what may be a step in the video star – Nothing! —
a slogan, if an event then we are lost in our individual needs, without any further reflection of their heart, they will not be a prayer in a place of worship, nor a secular reflection which will remove poverty.
Now it’s up to me, then you six!
Now serves to give even more meaning to Marie Curie, Fiorello La Guardia, Einstein, Malcolm X, MLking, Bob Kennedy, Gandhi and Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (you may know with a different name) Benazir Bhutto, Sadat and Rabin Y. , Woityla and Pope Roncalli, Our ex president Mr. Pertini was young and old, to the discovery of Bayer 1899 , writer Rigoni Stern, a Bob Marley
hours you go forward with all your knowledge of people who have made a difference to the living of today speak their fingerprints.
Good life in your hand and you mind.
Roberto Bobby63 Bianchi
from Milan – Italy
March 22, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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