ONE by ONE, we can help them help themselves.

[merh]

ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History

The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Each ONE of us can make a difference. Together as ONE we can change the world.

We can beat:

*
AIDS
*
Starvation
*
Extreme poverty

ONE billion people live on less than ONE dollar a day.


“WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty. WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs – education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans – would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget. WE COMMIT ourselves - one person, one voice, one vote at a time - to make a better, safer world for all.”


Sign up to add your voice to support The ONE Campaign Declaration. You will join the growing number of Americans who are getting involved online and in communities across the country to fight global AIDS and poverty through The ONE Campaign.
http://www.one.org/

SIGN UP NOW - they want our voices.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Kick!

And done!

For my buddy.:hi:

[merh]

5. Thank you cat!

One by One, one step at a time.

One for all and all for One!

[dzika]

2. I signed up.

Thanks for the link!

[merh]

6. You are welcome

and thank you for signing up.

These days it is hard to get folks interested, but we will, eventually we will!

:hi:

[understandinglife]

3. Signed. Forwarded to others. Nominated. Thank you merh. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN...............)

[chlamor]

4. Food First

Done

[merh]

7. Thank you!

:hi:

[EFerrari]

8. kick

[merh]

23. Thanks for the kick!

I like to take advantage of kicks by thanking the kicker, thus kicking the thread again. :hi:

[BamaBecky]

9. kick

[BamaBecky]

10. I saw the ad on TV...for the first time tonight in Florida! n/t

[merh]

17. Thanks BB!

:hi:

Good to see you.

[hiley]

11. kick

Do you know that if you have a blog that lets you add to the template you can put One Campaign Ad on your site ?





Look at this link to blog.

[hiley]

13. go look I have

2 different clickable ads on it, scroll down to see both.
Thank you merh so much for making this thread, I am so silly did not ever think of it all this time !!:bounce:

[merh]

15. Yea, this is a neat site.

I have been clicking around on it this evening. Think I will order a bracelet too.

Thank you for the thank you and support! :pals:

[il_lilac]

12. Thanks

I signed up and ordered wrist bands. I'm walking in the CROP walk next week which is another great way to help poverty and hunger around the world. They also help fight aids and work for sustainable ways for people to be self sufficient. Very worthwhile. feel free to im me for more info and do support if you know someone walking.

[hiley]

14. Do you have

a link for CROP, I would like to see their web site if they have one ?

[merh]

16. Yes, please add any links you have.

I don't.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

:grouphug:

[il_lilac]

18. thanks for the welcome!

If you wish to sponsor me link to my walk homepage
<https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=63994&supId=77489517>

on edit i hope this does'nt break any DU rules i'll check and delete if so- don't want to offend!

[hiley]

19. Oh no it is not against any rule

I know.
Thank you for posting about this and bookmarked the site so I can explore later.
Welcome to DU, I am a little slow and did not welcome you earlier, sorry...


merh I hope this thread stays up for a long while this is a great campaign. and you are welcome.
hiley

:bounce:


http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine

[merh]

20. Well let's keep it kicked and see if any progressives are out

there, willing to sign on to make a difference!

:hi:

[hiley]

25. well merh I hear

tell that DU is a Progressive site so let's help prove it.
You won't see something like the ONE Campaign around freerepublic !
I would croak over if they dared to give a shit about the rest of the world !
http://www.one.org/ TAKE the pledge !

http://www.one.org/Action.aspx TAKE action !



http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine

[merh]

43. Hey Hiley

I am going to post this link in ATA and ask Skinner to go check out the site and maybe he will host a banner at DU. It doesn't hurt to try!

We have to try to do all we can to make a difference. To sit back and accept the evil is to be an accomplice to the evil!

:grouphug:

[merh]

46. Thank you for the links

and your involvement! :pals:

[Turn CO Blue]

21. Big Kick!

[hiley]

22. This is WAY TOO important to fade

away...... I am begging people please sign up and help with this.
DUer's Everyone knows you care about poverty and helping others and DUer's mostly certainly are concerned about AIDS and Africa. Pass it around please......

Wear the white band and show your support for the ONE Campaign and the fight against global AIDS and poverty. Worn by teachers, doctors, and homemakers. You've seen them in the pages of People and US Weekly on your favorite stars, get your band now! The white bands are part of a global effort to make poverty history.
http://www.one.org/Action.aspx








http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine

[Turn CO Blue]

24. We won't let it fade...

I'll reply here back to you, and that will kick the thread.

I signed up tonight, and I will order the bands too...just want to wait until payday so I can order a 10-pack of large AND a 10-pack of small bands.

Anyway, don't you just love Bono? The guy is transcending into sainthood in my book.

[hiley]

26. Thank you

I am going to get some of those bands to and give them away too, after pay day . :shrug:


It is crazy how so many people live in poverty and that sooooooo
many more have died from AIDS and still HIV cases keep mounting thanks to racist and ignorant Politician's and medieval church doctrines, you know the no condom theory !
Never mind culture differences and arranged marriages of very young girls in some countries !
Clean running water is like a luxury to so many others .
It just floors me that some still have to carry water and it is not even clean water.
Many children and adults malnourished and others are literally starving to death.
People are still left to die alone and without medication rejected by family and their governments.

http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine

[Turn CO Blue]

27. The hubby and I were watching a show

where a woman in Africa was preparing a "meal" for her family. They lived in a grass hut (literally), maybe 7 ft in diameter. Her husband was very ill (AIDS) and her kids were obviously malnourished. She went "gathering" for some kind of hard-shelled nuts and "greens" (which just looked like weeds) so she could feed her children. She spent hours finding the nuts, and then more hours trying to crack open the things and digging out the meat, which she ground into a white flour. She fried the flour in a pan and mixed in the chopped greens and some filthy water. My husband and I kept making eye contact as we watched her prepare this meal. My husband cracked, "Yum, if there's any left I'll have some of that!"

It was disgusting on a thousand levels. We are so effing rich in this country and just take it for granted...we whine if the Taco Bell doesn't give us enough packets of Hot Sauce!

The hubby and I spent most of the day laying pavers and some sod. This woman in Africa is eating sod, and living in a sod house -- and we're spending more money than she'd have in a year trying to get a perfect grass carpet to walk on!

[hiley]

28. Turn CO Blue I know what you

mean ! I bet you that 'she never bitches about having to work so hard either. She just wants to take care of her family. I saw a documentary on either LinkTv http://linktv.org/
or FreeSpeechTv of this family living in a hut in Africa and like you said she spent the entire day just trying to prepare meals and worked her butt off and her family was so happy and content to be together ! The husband did his business and she did hers' and when ever they were all together which was most of the time this family was enjoying being alive and together.
How many Americans really are happy or thankful toward each other ?
It just blows my mind how people either love with all they have or not at all....

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/genx.php?name=home


Hopefully, your husband just was releasing nervous tension or something and really did not mean anything by his comment. Or if not your actions can move him to change his attitude. Love can wear off on others especially since you picked him to marry.





http://www.seo-blog.org/5755_omfg_rageagainstthegop_machine:pals:

[il_lilac]

29. kick for action

I too have trouble with the guilt of living in the richest country in the world. While I'm considered poor by american standards, just the fact that I have food in my cupboard, clean water, and spare change in my pocket makes me part of the wealthiest people in the world. I try not to take it for granted, but our country is sooo materialistic (and greedy). present company excluded:loveya:

[hiley]

37. kick, no how you feel about the guilt and the poor by american

:kick: standards ! However, like you I have food, shelter, and running water. il_lilac Welcome to DU ! :hi:

[Turn CO Blue]

33. Oh, the hubby is compassionate

but like all of us in this wealthy country, he is just pretty picky about food. I mean, we all watch gourmet cooking shows for entertainment in westernized countries, and in the USA there is an entire network devoted to food and cooking techniques (the Food Network).

I think he was just shocked to see what these people go through, andthe way that meal looked when it was being prepared and done...and I tend to agree, because if you're not literally starving, it just looked like mushy cooked grass. Not pleasant or appetizing at all. Bless their hearts.

It is true, that we can all learn that the most precious thing in life if to be with the ones we love. You observed that the extreme poor do at least know that. To be that poor and hungry, and to also be lonely, would be the very representation of hell.

We get too distracted here (with all our work and meetings and stresses) to appreciate our families and spending time together, but the quest for more "things" and our obsessive consumerism never enters into the actual equasion for happiness. Of course, I never underestimate the the value and loveliness of a pleasant meal either...

[hiley]

39. Turn CO Blue had a feeling

your hubby was like you and thanks for understanding what I meant.It is shocking to see how others survive.

you are so right......

"We get too distracted here (with all our work and meetings and stresses) to appreciate our families and spending time together, but the quest for more "things" and our obsessive consumerism never enters into the actual equasion for happiness. Of course, I never underestimate the the value and loveliness of a pleasant meal either..."
Turn CO Blue


Host a banner for One Campaign on your blog there are 8 to chose from.
http://www.one.org/ActionHost.aspx
merh,
big kick for One Campaign !
:kick:

[Blue_Roses]

30. signed up this morning

:)

[merh]

47. Thank you Blue_Roses!

:hug: One by one, we can make a difference! :thumbsup:

[troubleinwinter]

31. Thanks, merh! Signed & ....KICK!

[merh]

44. Thank you TIW!

Appreciate the kick!

I'll see your :kick: and add a :kick:

:hi:

[H2O Man]

32. Beautiful!

At a time when too many of us -- and I put myself at the very top of the list -- have gotten side-tracked on some nonsense or another, our wonderful no-nonsense Sister Merh gets us back on track! With the same amount of energy that it takes to engage in a petty disagreement with another DUer, we can instead invest in doing GOOD. Thank you!

[merh]

38. Gee my friend, you are always so kind to me.

:blush: If we try to put the positive, progressive messages out there, maybe the bickering will stop and we can do something constructive at the same time.

In this day and age, folks should not be dying of hunger, entire generations should not be facing elimination and our nation should be stepping up to do what is right, not what is so damning and destructive.

We can make a difference if we just try.

thank you again my friend! :hug:

[lesab]

34. hunger

What a great idea.....I'll give on payday......count me in and keep this kicked so I can find it again on Friday.

[merh]

53. Welcome to DU, lesab!

:hi:

[FizzFuzz]

35. kick and signing

thank you merh

I put you on my buddy list. Hope that's ok, I just always like what you have to say.

So many superb people here. :loveya: all

[merh]

40. It is a honor to be added to your buddy list. Thank you

:blush: There are so many that have inspired me, many have posted in this thread and deserve the honor more than I do.

Thank you for signing and kicking the thread. :hug:

We can make a difference, if we only try. :loveya:

[Turn CO Blue]

36. Sunday morning kick!

[merh]

42. Thank you Turn CO Blue!

Thank you for signing on and for helping me keep this thread kicked. :pals:

One step at a time, one day at a time, we can make a difference if we only try! :loveya:

[Turn CO Blue]

49. 1% of the US budget can make a HUGE difference, IN FACT

IT WOULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE WORLD!

[merh]

50. All they ask for is our voice.

That we take a stand!

:patriot:

[hiley]

56. IT WOULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE WORLD

I like that a lot !
:kick:

[merh]

59. Hi hiley

Just kickin around!
:kick:

[hiley]

62. This thread

is important and I wish it had more attention so here
is a kick for
One Campaign
:kick:

[thecai]

41. Signed n/t

[troubleinwinter]

45. KICK!!!!!!!

[il_lilac]

48. keep kicked!!

[merh]

51. May I kick your kick

:kick:

[merh]

52. Thank you

And a belated Welcome to DU! :hi:

[merh]

54. kick

:kick:

[merh]

55. kick

:kick:

[il_lilac]

57. kicking back

:kick:

[merh]

58. Thanks for the kick

I get a kick out of the kicks! :kick:

[entanglement]

60. Thanks. Tried to nominate for greatest, but it's past 24 hrs

Anyway, the more I see of your posts on DU the more I think
:yourock: :hug:

[merh]

64. You so rock entanglement!

:yourock:

Thanks for signing and kicking the thread.

A belated welcome to DU! :hi:

[City Lights]

61. I signed up last week and ordered 20 bracelets.

Thanks for posting this here. :hi:

[merh]

63. Thank you for responding to this thread.

Please help us keep it kicked. :hi:

[merh]

65. kick

:kick: