Make Poverty History Campaign

Poverty, like rust never sleeps.......
Street Seen has seen at first hand the devastating effects of poverty and the destructive results that it has created here in Ireland.
Homelessness is an extreme symptom of poverty and we will endeavour to fight poverty in any we can.....

Today, the gap between the world’s rich and poor is wider than ever. Global injustices such as poverty, AIDS, malnutrition, conflict and illiteracy remain rife.

Despite the promises of world leaders, at our present sluggish rate of progress the world will fail dismally to reach internationally agreed targets to halve global poverty by 2015.

World poverty is sustained not by chance or nature, but by a combination of factors: injustice in global trade; the huge burden of debt; insufficient and ineffective aid. Each of these is exacerbated by inappropriate economic policies imposed by rich countries.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. These factors are determined by human decisions.

2005 offers an exceptional series of opportunities for the UK and Ireland to take a lead internationally, to start turning things around. This year, as the UK hosts the annual G8 gathering of powerful world leaders and heads up the European Union (EU), the UK Government will be a particularly influential player on the world stage.

A sea change is needed. By mobilising popular support across a unique string of events and actions, we will press our own government to compel rich countries to fulfil their obligations and promises to help eradicate poverty, and to rethink some long-held assumptions.

MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY , supported by Street Seen, urges the government and international decision makers to rise to the challenge of 2005. We are calling for urgent and meaningful policy change on three critical and inextricably linked areas: trade, debt and aid.
http://streetseennews.blogspot.com/2005/01/make-poverty-history.html

MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY is a unique UK alliance of charities, trade unions, campaigning groups and celebrities who are mobilising around key opportunities in 2005 to drive forward the struggle against poverty and injustice.

Strike back at Mugabe
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean people have been evicted from their homes by Mugabe’s police and then those houses bulldozed and some children inside crushed to death.

Not only that but other African governments shamefully refuse to condemn this outrage, (BBC: Africa rejects action on Zimbabwe) the latest in a series of attacks on the freedoms of the people of Zimbabwe.

Well if we are really going to make poverty history in Africa then we need to make rotten dictators like Mugabe history too.

It is time to defend the people by striking back at this dictator.

Mugabe did not heed the warning message of suspension from the Commonwealth. So be it.

There is only one language that fascist dictators like Mugabe understand - the language of military force.

Britain and America should give heart to the defenceless people of Zimbabwe and rally the opposition to Mugabe by leading limited military strikes against Mugabe.

This could take the form of missile strikes against Mugabe’s palaces, hopefully catching him at home. Let’s see if Mugabe is killed when his house is knocked down. If he survives that then we could follow up with more comprehensive air strikes if necessary.

Hopefully if we strike back at Mugabe then that will give heart to the African people to fight back against this ruthless dictator.

Well of course it would be nice to get prior Commonwealth and UN backing for such strikes. However, we have seen with ousting Saddam that it is necessary for leading nations to act anyway and pick up the legal pieces afterwards.

Oh and we should not be welcoming complicit African heads of state, like Thabo Mbeki, the South African “president”, to G8 in Scotland either.

Friends of Mugabe, like Mbeki, should not be welcomed by those who wish to make poverty history.

We should thank Kate Hoey MP for speaking out so bravely on the Zimbabwean crisis. BBC: Blair pressed on Zimbabwe stance

Of course, the UK royalist, fascist police state should stop the deportations of Zimbabwean asylum seekers. (BBC: UK Zimbabweans on hunger strike)

- Peter Dow
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Go Peter!
The disgusting plight of Africans from many nations pretty much consumes my life and motivates my work.
I have family (black & white) in a number of African nations and plan to go over to SA in 2006 to stay with my daughter's boyfriend - from his point of view - a black man who works with AIDS crisis, orphans and poverty and travels to raise funds and educate the rest of the world and push for the ignorant stance of those in power to stop sitting on their hands - it seems much of this, apart from apathy ("it's not us, so why bother; when they stop breeding," etc ,etc.....) is a combination of fear, futility and tiredness.
Just as with the homeless issue, when so many spend so much on so little, yet can overlook atrocities and pretend nothing is happening (I wonder where else in the world???....), this goes on. And as much as farmers are suffering, the unseen suffer even more - far from being a black against withe problem it is a greed and power against weakness problem - many more blacks are suffering quitely and in fear.
Add to this - not just in Zimbabwe but countless other African nations, the dumping of chemicals, drugs, along with lies and manipulation of health care (believe it or not), the illegal drug trades and the issue is unbelievably huge and unfair. Anyhoo, keep it up and God BLess ya for your work!
Lulu :)

In all honesty, I cannot see the US intervening because there is no real economic growth in these parts of Africa.

Wikipedia definition..

"The economy of Africa comprises more than 800 million people in 54 different states. Africa is by far the world's poorest inhabited continent, and it is, on average, poorer than it was 25 years ago".

What POWER could GWB possibly get if he were to intervene?? He can't oppose Africa as a whole because of the $ ties with the Arabic countries. He has just INVADED Iraq and Afghanistan..(as you probably know already)...because he gets oil and drugs = POWER!

It's so amazingly clear to me. The greed of the politician, takes lives from any people from any country they can bully.

But then again, this is just one opinion..

Love and Light, K