Showing posts with label Global Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Poverty. Show all posts
5.26.2013
5.21.2013
nd 'Profound Blessing of Poverty: You can Only Give of Yourself, from your Need. Hugly eliminated Temptation to give of surplus and think it Matters, that it is Loving. It isn't.' Loving
'A Profound Blessing of Poverty - You can Only Give of Yourself, from your Need. Hugly eliminated Temptation to give of surplus and think it Matters, that it is Loving. It isn't.' Loving
3.23.2013
***** nd Tolstoy: "Those who own land in amounts larger than that which is needed to feed their own families can be treated as being guilty of causing the poverty of many other people."
Those who own land in amounts larger than that which is
needed to feed their own families can be treated as being
guilty of causing the poverty of many other people.
needed to feed their own families can be treated as being
guilty of causing the poverty of many other people.
3.17.2013
"Ah, how I would like a church," he said, "that is poor and is for the poor." Francis
"Ah, how I would like a church," he said, "that is poor and is for the poor." Francis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/16/pope-francis-church-poverty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/16/pope-francis-church-poverty
3.12.2013
Act, Enough, Now, or these kids lose their teachers, meals... Future. Lives.
Start --Megan Allen is a fifth-grade teacher in Tampa, Florida. At her elementary school, 90 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Many live in poverty, with unstable home lives -- some have parents in prison, others go hungry over the weekends. But at school, they're winning science fairs, challenging themselves, and eating two hot meals a day.
For Megan's 36 fifth graders, school is a safe place. The budget cuts known as the sequester could change that.
In the county where Megan teaches, 142 schools stand to lose $3 million in funding. The sequester could also slash as much as $2 million in federal funding for special education.
When those cuts kick in, Megan's students could lose teachers that help them every day -- for example, the folks who coach them through tricky arithmetic, or give those who are having reading trouble the special attention they need. The Head Start programs that got these students ready for kindergarten will be dramatically cut down. Their class sizes could go up, leaving less time for individual attention.
The sequester isn't a list of numbers made up to scare you. It's a very real thing that will negatively impact real people -- like Megan's 36 students and their families.
Congress needs to hear those stories. They need to know that their inaction has consequences -- that's the only way we'll put an end to these cuts.
Share your story right now on how the sequester is affecting your community:
http://my.barackobama.com/Share-Your-Sequester-Story
Thanks for speaking up.
Lindsay
Lindsay Siler
National Director of Issue Campaigns
Organizing for Action
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Let's finish what we started. Chip in $75 or more to Organizing for Action, the grassroots movement that will get the job done.
3.04.2013
***** DUH! 'To Live (Heart Alive - in Charge) REQUIRES risking EVERYTHING, INCLUDING PULSE, when society's status quo accepts, depends on, assures, billions in dire poverty (more).' Loving - inspired and informed by "Jesus Before Christianity," Albert Nolan (see Library tabs above)
***** DUH! 'To Live (Heart Alive - in Charge) REQUIRES risking EVERYTHING, INCLUDING PULSE, when society's status quo accepts, depends on, assures, billions in dire poverty (more).' Loving - inspired and informed by "Jesus Before Christianity," Albert Nolan (see Library tabs above)
MLK Jr said the same Truth, Fact, this way - "A person is not fit [equipped] to live until they know what they would be willing to die for."
Jesus said it this way - "Whoever would save their life will lose it; and whoever would lose their life for the sake of our neediest Family will Gain their Life." Paraphrase with liberties, of which He would approve.
MLK Jr said the same Truth, Fact, this way - "A person is not fit [equipped] to live until they know what they would be willing to die for."
Jesus said it this way - "Whoever would save their life will lose it; and whoever would lose their life for the sake of our neediest Family will Gain their Life." Paraphrase with liberties, of which He would approve.
2.25.2013
***** nd 'Evil (ecocide, 4 billion in poverty...) prevails not because we perpetrate it, but because we participate in it, through our 'normal,' 'sane,' 'reasonable...,' participation in our status quo Systems, Institutions, Stuff.... Truly, like Cancer cells, we bear no malice. We do what the other cells do. And now Earth is dying from us. STOP IT.' Loving
***** nd 'Evil (ecocide, 4 billion in poverty...) prevails not because we perpetrate it, but because we participate in it, through our 'normal,' 'sane,' 'reasonable...,' participation in our status quo Systems, Institutions, Stuff.... Truly, like Cancer cells, we bear no malice. We do what the other cells do. And now Earth is dying from us. STOP IT.' Loving
2.14.2013
Obama's LBJ Moment: The War on Inequality is the New 'War on Poverty.' The Atlantic
| The Atlantic | - |
In an audacious State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama made sweeping proposals to reduce poverty, revive the middle class and increase taxes on the "well off.
1.21.2013
***** HUGE: Eliminating Energy Poverty - Luci - Go and Do Likewise!
More - http://bostonglobe.com/business/2013/01/21/luci-solar-powered-lantern-bright-idea-and-could-aid-worthy-cause/IaywIfBa3kofQXLxWMe8GK/story.html
Luci solar-powered lantern, by Mpowerd Inc.
$15.95 at mpowerd.com
Amidst all the flashy, costly gadgets on display at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, none was more impressive than this little device, which generates hours of brilliant light by capturing the power of the sun.
$15.95 at mpowerd.com
Amidst all the flashy, costly gadgets on display at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, none was more impressive than this little device, which generates hours of brilliant light by capturing the power of the sun.
1.10.2013
California childhood poverty rates increasing NBC Latino
| NBC Latino | - |
“Prosperity Threatened: Perspectives on Childhood Poverty in California” details a trend that worsened during the recent economic downturn, with U.S.
1.07.2013
'Fascinating: Just Realized - of those I revere...
'Fascinating: Just Realized - of those I significantly revere (1 out of a million)...
deceased - King, Gandhi, Jesus, Rachel Corrie, Steve Biko...
living - K, DW, SM, SS, USM ......
and / or with whom I feel affection - PS, PG...
Maybe as many as half or more have:
A. Been divorced by their spouse
and or
B. Rejected by some or all of their children
C. Lived in Material poverty
D. Received a pre-mature mortality
AND ALWAYS
E. Had, or been close to, riches of the Spirit that not 1 in a million can Dream of, tragically. Which is why they do what they do.
"If you pick up your cross (if you devote your selves to the NEEDIEST in our global family) it will (not might, WILL) cost you husband, wife, son, daughter, house, farms... but you will receive 100 fold, in this lifetime (Wealth, Riches of the Spirit, the only Wealth, Riches, that there are, in Truth)." Jesus. 100% correct, as usual.
deceased - King, Gandhi, Jesus, Rachel Corrie, Steve Biko...
living - K, DW, SM, SS, USM ......
and / or with whom I feel affection - PS, PG...
Maybe as many as half or more have:
A. Been divorced by their spouse
and or
B. Rejected by some or all of their children
C. Lived in Material poverty
D. Received a pre-mature mortality
AND ALWAYS
E. Had, or been close to, riches of the Spirit that not 1 in a million can Dream of, tragically. Which is why they do what they do.
"If you pick up your cross (if you devote your selves to the NEEDIEST in our global family) it will (not might, WILL) cost you husband, wife, son, daughter, house, farms... but you will receive 100 fold, in this lifetime (Wealth, Riches of the Spirit, the only Wealth, Riches, that there are, in Truth)." Jesus. 100% correct, as usual.
1.04.2013
Anti-poverty rally calls for rental allowance increases. CBC.ca
| CBC.ca | - |
A
rally outside the Manitoba legislature on Friday called on the
provincial government to raise rental allowances for people on income
assistance.
1.01.2013
nd 'FEW PEOPLE CHOOSE WAR, THE NEWTOWN SLAUGHTER, FAMINE, ECOCIDE, POVERTY, INJUSTICE.... WE CHOOSE TO WORSHIP OUR FLESHLY SPIRIT. THESE ARE JUST THE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES.' Loving
nd 'FEW PEOPLE CHOOSE WAR, THE NEWTOWN SLAUGHTER, FAMINE, ECOCIDE, POVERTY, INJUSTICE.... WE CHOOSE TO WORSHIP OUR FLESHLY SPIRIT. THESE ARE JUST THE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES.' Loving
11.25.2012
nd 'My Life: From the Poverty of Material Riches, to the Wealth of Loving our neediest.' Loving
nd 'My Life: From the Poverty of Material Riches, to the Wealth of Loving our neediest.' Loving
11.19.2012
10.29.2012
Romney-Ryan's Real Poverty Plan: Soak the Poor Current TV
| Current TV - |
Romney-Ryan's Real Poverty Plan: Soak the Poor. source: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/mitt-romneys-real-poverty-plan · Image. An error occurred while setting up video display. FreeSpiritMuse; added this ...
10.22.2012
***** Tonight Romney Won the Election, Obama, the Debate.
I was asked on Facebook just now, after Debate 3, how I thought the election was going -
It is the last test the US and world will get as to the viability of humans as a species, and the fact that the election is even close says we are no longer viable - the world is too complex for us now, and we've filled it with too many temptations for selfishness distracting us from our DNA given job of caring for one another, starting with the least among us. All that the Romney crew, GOP, conservatives.... needs is just 4 more years on top of Reagan, Bush I, Bush II... to bankrupt all but the super rich and they will economically enslave, and militarily rule the 99.999% world forever, and it seems clear we are all way too dehumanized, sub-humanized, to stop them. This was our last chance, and none of us are seizing it. Insanity will prevail and now there is no more time to recover - we've destroyed too much. The billions that survive will experience a level of torture, bankruptcy, poverty and enslavement to the wreckage my generation has delivered unlike anything ever seen, and it will be irreversible for 1000's of years.
Pr. Obama won the debate tonight, and Romney won the election by pandering to the shallowest, most bigoted, least informed, least engaged among us - the white males and secondarily white females. That is who Pr. Obama should too have focused on. Why didn't he? Be cause he sees that we humans are beyond saving, and subconsciously he is washing his hands of us, which we richly deserve. He's wasted 4 precious years of his life on us all. Enough is enough
Loving
It is the last test the US and world will get as to the viability of humans as a species, and the fact that the election is even close says we are no longer viable - the world is too complex for us now, and we've filled it with too many temptations for selfishness distracting us from our DNA given job of caring for one another, starting with the least among us. All that the Romney crew, GOP, conservatives.... needs is just 4 more years on top of Reagan, Bush I, Bush II... to bankrupt all but the super rich and they will economically enslave, and militarily rule the 99.999% world forever, and it seems clear we are all way too dehumanized, sub-humanized, to stop them. This was our last chance, and none of us are seizing it. Insanity will prevail and now there is no more time to recover - we've destroyed too much. The billions that survive will experience a level of torture, bankruptcy, poverty and enslavement to the wreckage my generation has delivered unlike anything ever seen, and it will be irreversible for 1000's of years.
Pr. Obama won the debate tonight, and Romney won the election by pandering to the shallowest, most bigoted, least informed, least engaged among us - the white males and secondarily white females. That is who Pr. Obama should too have focused on. Why didn't he? Be cause he sees that we humans are beyond saving, and subconsciously he is washing his hands of us, which we richly deserve. He's wasted 4 precious years of his life on us all. Enough is enough
Loving
9.24.2012
Gallup: Half of those in poverty are political independents Washington Post
| Washington Post (blog) - |
Political independents in poverty
are more likely to lean Democratic and approve of Obama, Gallup says.
But there's a lot to suggest that they're far more politically
disengaged.
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