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Newt gets conservative argument on poverty
2012-02-04 23:32:00 Seizing on Mitt Romney’s recent gaffe that he is “not concerned about the very poor,” Gingrich offer his goal as . . . . . . the exact opposite of Governor Romney['s] — my goal is not to ignore or forget the poor. My goal is to turn the safety net into a trampoline to ...
By: GayPatriot
How economic inequality harms societies
2011-12-28 15:22:00 We can improve the real quality of human life by reducing the differences in incomes between us, says Richard Wilkinson, author of the ground-breaking ‘Spirit Level’ book. Ever wondered why the crime rate and other social ills seem to be on the rise? Wilkinson suggests that these problems seem to be more prevalent in countries [Read more]
By: anilnetto.com
A Celebration of Poverty
2011-12-11 21:24:00 Guido Reni 1575 - 1642The Adoration of the ShepherdsAbout 1640Oil on canvas480 x 321 cmThe National Gallery, London This work was possibly commissioned by Prince Karl Eusebius of Lichtenstein (who died in 1684). The National Gallery acquired it from the Prince`s descendants in 1957. Before the acquisition, some of the Trustees went to Vaduz to see it. It was in a very dark room. It was decided to take the painting outside. Unfortunately the wind took hold of it and it smashed into a fencepost. The post left a huge hole in the painting next to the head of one of the shepherds. The National Gallery continued with the purchase no doubt on the well known retail concept of "If you break it, you own it" After it was repaired the huge work stayed in the same room in the Gallery for nearly fifty years before it went to be restored. It is back after a period of three years in the National Gallery`s "backshop". It is a late work of Reni`s and probably many of Reni`s assistants were involved...
DOMINICAN DREAM SCHOOL
2011-11-17 17:56:00 The Dominican Republic Education And Mentoring Project (DREAM Project) is a 501(c)3 based in Caberete, Puerto Plata that dedicates its mission to the impoverished children of the Caribbean island. Together with a team of teachers, trainers, and volunteers, the unique school is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by offering its students quality, early and continuing education. This regiment is comprised of an inclusive and sustainable curriculum that promotes critical thinking that is fostered by individual support. República salutes!
Creative Parenting: ?Poverty as Creative Catalyst,? by Khadijah Lacina
2011-10-14 08:00:00 Khadijah Lacina is a regular guest columnist for Riehlife. Her previous post was "Creative Parenting: My Head Is Full of Poems." This post is number two in the series. We met through Story Circle Network. In her series of articles, Khadijah shares how she stays sane by encouraging and nurturing creativity in herself and her ...
Science and Technology Could Lift Millions out of Poverty, says India800 Fo
2011-10-13 20:28:00 Debates on whether aid works, how much aid budgets should be and how they are spent ought not to be the only focus, says the India800 Foundation, a charity that will present its work at the House of Lords in London on Monday. ...
How America turned poverty into a crime
2011-08-13 08:18:00 The poor aren’t just struggling during the recession; they’re being actively hounded by urban officials BY BARBARA EHRENREICH AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Elias Pirela, 6, right, holds his brother Ahmad Phillips, center, as he stands with his mother Latasha Phillips, 33, left, before leaving for the first day of school from his temporary home at the ...
By: News for Greens
A cure for poverty
2011-05-10 22:10:00 Abstract:Government anti-poverty programs share the flawed assumption that poverty in America is primarily a material problem that can be solved by increased welfare and entitlement spending. Poverty in America is often the result of a relational problem, such as fatherlessness or community breakdown, which government programs cannot adequately address. However, the institutions of civil society--family, churches, and other associations--are well suited to providing the personalized assistance needed to repair these relational problems, enabling people to overcome poverty and lead healthy lives. Instead of crowding out private efforts with welfare programs, government can best serve the poor by establishing and maintaining social conditions that allow families, churches, and other institutions of civil society the freedom to serve those who are...
IMPROV CLASS FOR THE SOUL: POVERTY AND CHARITY by Rachel Hamill
2011-04-28 07:53:00 And the economy took the next step down...+ Those that were in Soul killed to make life meet...+ Those that were unemployed slighted their neighbor to get noticed...+ Those that were employed stole to make ends meet...+ Those who were holy sold out God and their neighbor...+ Those who were decent compromised their families...+ Those in need were ignored...+ Those in love forgot all else...+ Those who remembered everything forgot love... The emergency which had been growing needed, in practicality a superhero, but there was no one who cared, or was special, or that had extra strength. In transcendance the emergency needed GOD, but people had forgotten how to pray, how to...
Puttaparthi Sai Baba Celebrates 85th Birthday
2010-11-21 21:31:00 On 23 November, 2010, devotees from around the world celebrate Sathya Sai Baba's birthday. Their consciences need to be challenged. They can be asked: How can they lend themselves to such wasteful displays of pomp and ceremony? How can those of them who have so cruelly rejected their once dearly beloved fellow devotees' whom they knew over decades to be good and decent human beings, proclaim that they are, as Sai worshipers, devotees of Truth, Love and Right Action? How can those Indian government and other dignitaries, whom we know to have been apprised in detail of the many worldwide allegations against Sai Baba, look at themselves and their families with any honesty? For those prepared to look at a number of alternative views of how Sathya Sai Baba continues to bring India, in an aura of shame, to the notice of the world, the following is but the briefest selection of resources.
Sathya Sai Baba?s claims of financial poverty, non-ownership and self-sacri
2010-11-12 19:16:00 “Some people are so mean-minded that they do not want to understand and appreciate the sanctity associated with the activities. Have any of them been able to accomplish even one-thousandth part of what Sai baba is doing? No, no, no! It is only Sathya Sai Baba who has undertaken such noble tasks without a trace ...
Beginnings: A consortium for poverty alleviation, particularly the Higaunon
2010-10-09 20:39:00 The Higaunon Tribal community of Claveria Misamis Oriental and the urban poor paper makers of Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines will now have a better quality of life through commitments made by Cagayan de Oro Handmade Paper (CDOH) and Australian Government Aid (AUSAID). CDOH is an export company since 1993 that applies its core business expertise ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Poverty and Compassion?
2010-10-09 14:16:00 Poverty and Compassion? I cannot understand where American compassion for those in need has gone. I guess when people are scared, many put their own interests ahead of others. Thank God we have some heroes out there and that some of us give a damn about others. I ...
New estimate predicts record poverty rate increase: more than 1 in 7 in pov
2010-09-13 22:54:00 The highest increase in the country's poverty rate since the 1950s may have happened last year. Census data being released this week is expected to show that the nation experienced the large single-year increase in 1959....
Government programs pulling more Americans from poverty freefall
2010-08-31 21:34:00 A record number of Amercians--an estimated 1 in 6-- are being served by federal anti-poverty programs like Medicaid, unemployment insurance, food stamps and welfare, according to USA TODAY....
Today's race and poverty news
2010-07-20 23:27:00 The U.S. Senate voted today 60 to 40 in favor of extending unemployment benefits, thus breaking a Republican filibuster, according to the Chicago Tribune. The bill is expected to go to the House Wednesday and then to President Obama for his signature. If approved, about 2.5 million people could retroactively receive unemployment benefits. Coincidentally, The Chicago Reporter this month reported that a census region encompassing four West Side neighborhoods had the highest rate of long-term unemployment in the country among people aged 16 to 30....
nomad4ever.com eradicates Hunger and World Poverty
2010-07-09 07:39:00 Just a short note, that this website won an Award of Excellence by IGLU, one of the biggest travel companies in the UK with millions of people visiting their portal site every year. IGLU has won many awards based on their hard work and dedication to the traveling customer, who they offer many holiday destinations ...
By: nomad4ever
'Hoodwinked' author John Perkins saves Mr. Media from the economic hit men
2010-05-25 20:33:00 Cover via Amazon By BOB ANDELMAN Forget Stephen King novels. If you want some really scary bedtime reading, I?m going to recommend John Perkins new non-fiction book, Hoodwinked. It?ll leave you afraid to turn off the lights at night. Hoodwinked is the sequel to Perkins? previous book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and it is an eyes wide awakener. You?ll feel like you?ve been living in La-La Land all your life after reading the no-bullshit revelations about how the world?s corporatocracy really operates. You might also feel like taking a long, hot shower because learning how American businesses really operate around the world is more alarming than any Oliver Stone paranoid cinematic fantasy. It?s almost too wild a tale; it would be easier to believe if the book was just one story of naked greed and ambition, but Hoodwinked is page after page of ugly Americanism. John Perkins Website ? Facebook JOHN PERKINS AUDIO EXCERPT: "We in the United States are being told we...
By: Mr. Media
According to Rich Jesus, Christianity is not a call to poverty
2009-12-01 03:11:00 My favorite part of the website for Rich Jesus is the notion that Christians believe they are supposed to be poor. Really? You don’t say…
Sathya Sai Baba 84th Birthday Celebrations. Will 21st Century India Tolerat
2009-11-22 02:03:00 Unimaginable splurgings of pomp and conspicuous waste attend Sathya Sai Baba's imperial-like birthday celebrations. The global financial meltdown will not have melted down his vast reserves of gold. Many politicians from right across India's political spectrum fall at Sathya Sai Baba's feet. Likewise industrialists, judges, many of the top brass from the armed services and police, and so forth. We know, too, via strong former devotee contacts with those who have roles at high levels, that, though there are those in foreign service who regret it, diplomats have been told "not to rock the boat" on the Sathya Sai Baba issue. This is actually a great disservice to India, because Sathya Sai Baba is NOT India!
Golden Throne of India?s Sathya Sai Baba. He says he will Rule the world so
2009-11-21 22:05:00 Soon never comes ... On November 23, 2009, he celebrates with enormous pomp and extravagance his 84th birthday. Sathya Sai Baba is haggard, weak and ailing, although on his 60th birthday he proclaimed that he would thenceforth not age. He long ago said that he will travel to other countries, actually naming some of them, and that he would perform these visits after first putting his "own backyard" (India) in order. In many respects, India is still in a parlous state.
Don't fall into the poverty trap. You might never get out...
2009-11-13 18:05:00 image via wikipediaUntil you earn about $40,000 a year, you're pretty much stuck in poverty, economists' numbers show. In fact, until you get past $40,000 a year, any raise or higher paying job you get might actually sink you deeper into poverty. Take a look at this story about a single mother, who after getting a higher paying job, didn't spend a dime more and couldn't pay her bills:Continue Reading......
Poverty: blame it on the Democrats? Monday news round up
2009-10-12 20:10:00 Photo from bobster855 on flickrA North Carolina blog rounds up the 10 U.S. cities with the highest poverty rates: 1. Detroit , MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo , NY 29.9% 3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland , OH 27.0% 5. Miami , FL 26.9% 6. St. Louis , MO 26.8% 7. El Paso , TX 26.4% 8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2% 9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1% 10. Newark , NJ 24.2%What do they have in common?...
Could there be an end to poverty?
2009-10-08 17:55:00 5751 S. Throop Street in West Englewood by David Schalliol. Yesterday, I was driving on the North Shore, on my way to see a friend. I had never driven through Winnetka before, and I exclaimed "Oh my God," aloud at least three or four times alone in my car. The mansions. Holy cow. Gates and tennis courts and green houses and giant houses that look like some kind of cross between Gone With the Wind's Tara and the Cinderella castle. How in the world do people have that much money? was the main thought running through my head. The day before, I had been driving through Englewood, where there are as many empty lots and boarded up buildings as palatial...
Which comes first: poverty or spanking? Friday news round up
2009-09-18 22:10:00 Photo by Art by Heather on FlickrThe LA Times reviews a new Duke University study that tries to untangle spanking your kids from being poor. The study shows that poor children are way more likely to be spanked, but it also makes them more aggressive and slows their development. It sort of asks the question - are kids spanked because they are poor and then become poor because they were spanked?The study says parents often spank because they themselves are dealing with challenges - like being a young or single parent or living in poverty - and they also might reflect that poor parents are preparing their kids for a life full of these same challenges. The UN and the...
Poverty in US way up, Power Elite doing just fine
2009-09-13 19:36:00 On September 10, 2009, the US Census Bureau released the latest figures for poverty rates in America which now affect one in eight Americans.Our plutocrats-in-charge, the grossly wealthy and morally deformed power elite, remain unmoved as their NWO plans steamroll along. And it continues to amaze me that so few people in this country see a connection!On Jan 1, 2006, with Astrology as a lens and intuition my guide, I was blogging like the dissenting gnat I am here on SO'W and fussing about upcoming Soup Lines Across America. Was I wrong? Well, I wanted to be, yet felt a sinking feeling that I was not.Please check out a bit of (Freemason) President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Jan 20, 1937 Inaugural Address where he defines the test of our progress, the dynamics of which I assert were of no concern to George Bush or to other US oligarchs.So Bush's financial crisis of 2007/2008 expectably occurred, ostensibly giving states and the federal government many excuses for cutting back on publi...
Union Bank Philippines keeping Filipino?s in Poverty
2009-08-20 05:38:00 Union Bank Philippines is doing its best to keep Filipino?s in poverty and people hungry. Remember the story from yesterday Unionbank Philippines Theft it is now 24 hours since that poor woman has been able to eat, because Unionbank Stole her money and will take 15 days to pay it back if they ever pay it back. We still can see no reason why it takes 15 days other banks in the world can sort a problem from a ATM fault like this in a few hours, we can only presume the reason for 15 days is it?s a long enough that many people will forget it, so Union Bank never has to pay it back. This seems to be the case we have had comments left by people who have never got their money back after ATM machines failed to pay out.While Unionbank does it?s best to keep people hungry and in poverty they also report record profits. Pat yourselfs on your back Union Bank you have record profits because you steal from your customers and keep your country in poverty. Bonnie and Clyde also bragged about the h...
Is there a Poverty Draft? Friday news round up
2009-07-17 17:00:00 Poverty Draft? - Thought-provoking opinion piece. What's the real difference between joining a gang and joining the military? It's a short read, so give it a look and tell me what you think. HUD announces $113 million available for housing transformation, community revitalization - A new program called "Choice Neighborhoods" will offer funds to "challenge public, private and nonprofit partners to extend neighborhood transformation efforts beyond public housing and link housing interventions more closely with school reform and early childhood innovation."A Home-Spun Safety Net - Another op-ed, this one about how difficult it can be to use the "system" to get help. A family who has renamed TANF (which stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to stand for "Torture...
pearl1 wrote a new blog post: Born in poverty
2009-07-15 12:06:00 pearl1 wrote a new blog post: Born in poverty A self-made millionaire and founder of the first fashion empire, Coco Chanel was one of the most famous and admired famous women entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Born in poverty, Chanel longed for luxury, wealth and independence. She created clothes and jewelry for others that were the same as she created for herself. Coco Chanel was one ...
A Fellow Blogger In Need
2009-05-31 01:39:00 Former GTL? Blogger And Personal Friend Is Reaching Out For Your Help It was with great pain I read the heartfelt plea for help in my email box. In fact, my great personal friend had called and left a message on my cellphone a couple of days ago and I sent him a quick email ... DON'T MISS... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Lack of Budgeting Causes Poverty?
2009-04-12 08:48:00 Recently, there are quite a few people losing jobs and going into debts. However, there is nothing surprising about that. In fact, the surprising thing is that a lot of those who get into real big problems are not the really poor folks, but rather those once-rich highly-paid executives. It is bad to lose jobs for anyone, ...
Downturn could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan
2009-03-15 03:12:00 From: Times Online Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned. Speaking to The Times after a meeting of world leaders hosted by ...
By: News for Greens
Autism and Fuel Poverty: Minister Rosie Winterton responds to UKAF
2009-02-23 19:14:00 British Minister at the Department of Work and Pensions, Rosie Winterton MP, Minister has responded to the call of the UK Autism Foundation on the serious issue of Autism and Winter Fuel Poverty. The UK Autism Foundation has been campaigning non stop on behalf of families with autism who are below the poverty line. The economic ...
MPs call for urgent action on Autism and Winter Fuel Poverty
2008-12-18 15:02:00 (Westminster, UK) Parliamentarians of all parties in Westminster are calling for urgent action on autism and winter fuel poverty.Dr Rudi Vis - MP for Finchley & Golders Green has tabled early day motion 281 in the House of Commons. One of the co-sponsors of the motion is Lee Scott, MP for Ilford North, Patron of ...
UK Autism Foundation Appeal on Winter Fuel Poverty
2008-12-10 20:31:00 (London, UK) An autism charity, the UK Autism Foundation has appealed to Her Majesty’s Government to support families and adults with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome who are suffering fuel poverty this winter. The charity has been in touch with Chancellor Alistair Darling, Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, ...
Fighting Poverty with Killer Eggplant
2008-11-18 07:01:00 The Killer Eggplants are coming…they should arrive in 2009. I’m joking, of course. But Science Daily News reports that scientists have developed a newer genetically modified eggplant, which is now in the testing phase and so far it has tested safe and nutritious. If it passes the test, the new variety would allow farmers to grown eggplant without ...
Fighting Poverty One Person at a Time
2008-11-15 03:35:00 Yesterday morning, we heard the bands playing. This is not unusual in our town: A lot of funerals hire bands to march with the departed to the cemetery, and since the Palenke (open air market) burnt down last year, and many of the shops moved to the sidewalks of the main streets a block away, ...
Poverty Versus Denial
2008-11-14 01:02:00 Former Bushco speechwriter Michael Gerson opined as follows in the WaPo yesterday?Political indifference to durable poverty in our midst has long been a scandal; from Obama it would be a tragedy.From here?According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor statistics, the national poverty rate increased from a record low of 11.3 percent in 2000 to 12.5 percent in 2007 -- an increase of approximately 5.8 million Americans living below the poverty line. ?In George W. Bush?s presidency, there?s been an almost total absence of benefits of growth trickling down to the middle class, much less to those at the bottom,? says Jared Bernstein, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, whose extensive writing on the working poor includes the book "The State of Working America." The nation's unemployment rate has risen from 4 percent in 2000 to 6.1 percent at present. Bush's economic policy has been marked by tax cuts largely beneficial to the wealthy, while federal...
UK Autism: Launch of Initiative on Poverty and Autism
2008-11-04 11:02:00 (London, UK) A huge initiative was launched on Monday 3rd November in an effort to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling to reach out to families with autism during the present credit crunch and recession. Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder, according to UK researchers 1 in 100 children has autism - there are ...
future headline: microfinance ends poverty!
2008-11-03 13:46:00 Consider these statistics... Almost half the world ? over three billion people ? live on less than $2.50 a day. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. More than 80 percent of the world?s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. The poorest 40 percent of the world?s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income. According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day (that is one child every three seconds) due to poverty. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy). An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. Every year there are 350?500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide. Some 1.8 milli...
microfinance solution to poverty
2008-10-20 21:16:00 Poverty is one of the biggest problems that our world faces today. Many experts believe that the gap is widening and that simply throwing more aid at the problem only makes it worse. They also share that the best way to bring people out of poverty is by enabling people to pull themselves out. If ...
By: BibleDude.net
Stand Up, Take Action Against Poverty Campaign
2008-10-18 06:27:00 Last year, the Philippines won the no. 1 slot for the most number of people who stood up against poverty in the Stand Up Against Poverty, according to Minar Pimple, United Nations Millennium Campaign deputy director who is personally giving the good news to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.To achieve 15 million people who will stand up and take action against poverty for this year in order to sustain the country?s first place position, no less than Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal will lead the campaign on the occasion of the Asian Conference on Religion for Peace at the University of the Santo Tomas (UST).Minar Pimple, United Nations Millennium Campaign deputy director, who had a TV interview in Equilibrium: Sukatan ng Katarungan, hosted by former Senator Heherson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on global warming and climate change, will be joined by Suneeta Mukherjee, UNRC AI and UN family focal person for the Philippine campaign, together with partners in the aforemention...
Stand UP Against Poverty (On Orkut)
2008-10-18 00:34:00 (Hat Tip: Rupesh of funduBytes)Today kicks off a 3 day event to by citizens around the world to take a Stand Against Poverty and help make a difference in the world by 2015.This event is being promoted by the United Nations Millennium Campaign, whose goal is to not only help spread awareness around the world regarding global poverty, but actually do something about it as almost 80% of the world lives below the poverty line (and at least a billion who are not receiving enough food).Orkut lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a dedicated Orkut forum to this event, which users can access by visiting orkut.com/EndPoverty.Be sure to check out this video below (which I saw being highlighted on the UN Millennium Campaign site), as well as spread the word (as the more people who are aware of the problem, the easier it will be to hopefully solve global poverty).Content Copyright 2005-2009 of Inside Orkut. All Rights Reserved. Violators (and hosts) can be prosecuted under nationa...
By: Inside Orkut
Poverty
2008-10-16 02:06:00 Poverty. When I speak the word “poverty”, I imagine barefooted, naked, dirt-stricken and malnourished children running around, makeshift homes with thatched roofing or with only a piece of tarpaulin serving as its walls, women huddled in one corner gossiping and men who are naked from the waist up, with cigarettes hanging from their darkened lips while ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty - We Can Make A Difference
2008-10-16 00:07:00 Today I am proud to be a part of the second annual Blog Action Day. Each year on October 15th, thousands of bloggers, spanning the globe, unite to bring awareness to one specific global issue. This year bloggers aim to “bring awareness, initiate action and shake the web” about poverty using their own unique voice. I would like to bring this to your attention. Every three seconds… …a child dies from extreme poverty and over 1 million Canadian children live in poverty. These numbers are unacceptable and something can be done. Get involved! It’s not hard and it doesn’t have to cost you a dime. Your voice is a powerful and effective tool to get the word out that we must Make Poverty History, our children depend on it. For more information about poverty in Canada, and globally, visit the sites below. These sites will help explain the little things we can do that could have huge impact on this battle to end poverty. Make Poverty History Campaign 2000 N...
By: The PREVA Report
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty - We Can Make A Difference
2008-10-16 00:07:00 Today I am proud to be a part of the second annual Blog Action Day. Each year on October 15th, thousands of bloggers, spanning the globe, unite to bring awareness to one specific global issue. This year bloggers aim to “bring awareness, initiate action and shake the web” about poverty using their own unique voice. I would like to bring this to your attention. Every three seconds… …a child dies from extreme poverty and over 1 million Canadian children live in poverty. These numbers are unacceptable and something can be done. Get involved! It’s not hard and it doesn’t have to cost you a dime. Your voice is a powerful and effective tool to get the word out that we must Make Poverty History, our children depend on it. For more information about poverty in Canada, and globally, visit the sites below. These sites will help explain the little things we can do that could have huge impact on this battle to end poverty. Make Poverty History Campaign 2000 N...
By: The PREVA Report
Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty
2008-10-15 23:00:00 Earlier  today I shared about my coupon savings and even free food items with using Savings Angel.  After visiting a few of my favorite blogs today, I see that today is “Blog Action Day” an event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s topic (today) is poverty.   Though we have gone through very rough times (several job lay-offs, working from home solely, medical issues and two deaths), wondering how we’d make ends meet, we have never had an empty refrigerator, or empty cupboards. We might not always have on the shelf what we want, but there has always been food. I’ve been so excited in building up our pantry some, excited to get greatly discounted, nearly free and free food, but reading some of the blogs today that are part of the Blog Action Day has made me stop to think. I cannot imagine my children running out into the streets begging for f...
Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty and Gift Economy
2008-10-15 15:01:00 The concept of a gift economy is as old as society itself. It has always been there in one form or the other. People in all civilizations have been exchanging gifts in order to establish social relationships and strengthen existing ones or rulers would give away large amounts of goods to their followers (still do in some monarchies) or rich people give away things of value for the collective benefit of the public. Only the forms have kept changing over time.When people give to one another, freely and without conditions, sharing their blessings with others and bearing each other's burdens, the giving multiplies and we receive far more than what was given. Even when there is no immediate prospect of return, Allah Almighty keeps accounts of all the giving, and in the end blessing will return to the giver, multiplied manifold. All religions advocate that humans should participate and give (back) some of what Allah the exalted has bestowed upon them, in what ever way possible.Another ...
By: Light Within
Poverty in the Philippines
2008-10-15 14:12:00 I am not rich. But I dare not call myself poor. This I say in respect for all those who live day by day, without a steady job or none at all, those who do not have access to basic necessities such as food or medicine. I am not poor. I may not have a ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Blog Action Day: poverty consciousness part 2
2008-10-15 14:01:00 Wednesday 15: Blog Action Day - Does obsession with power and control kill off the cells responsible for commonsense and vision? Perhaps they cannot have both turned on at the same time? How else to explain the supremely daft things ?they? do or want to do with public money. Instead of spending money on yachts ... |
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