Make Poverty History

[kerrygoddess]

Make Poverty History

While George W. Bush is busy trying to enlarge the poverty sector in America with his budget cuts and Social Security reform, some enlightened people in the world recognize that it is time to “Make Poverty History”. Their cries however fall on deaf ears, because the Bush administration is having no part of making poverty history here in the U.S. or globally.

During Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, I noticed that Bono was sporting a white armband that was hard to read given the camera angles.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=380

[ultraist]

1. Excellent! "Make poverty history" white armband

excerpts from OP link:
"...“Make Poverty History” campaign that was recently launched in the UK with a moving speech from Nelson Mandela. Bono, a longtime AIDS activist, recently spoke at 'The G-8 and Africa: Rhetoric or action ?' session at the World Economic Forum in Davos on the critical need to end World Poverty.

"Our generation wants to be remembered for something other than the war against terror." "We actually want to perhaps be the generation that's remembered for ending extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is what I call stupid poverty"

Bill Clinton, who also attended, warned against "us getting diverted into that instead of keeping people alive." The issue of America's keeping promises that President George W. Bush has already made seems likely to recur.

The United States "should not retreat under the weight of these crushing budget deficits," Bono said.

Bono offered one more reason why the world should help. Around 40 percent of Bono of Africa's people are Muslim, he said, and some African states risked becoming labeled failed states as Afghanistan was under the Taliban regime. "Africa is not the frontline of the war against terrorism," he said. "But it could be soon."