Post by Matkin22 on Feb 13, 2008 7:01:03 GMT 12
I'm sure that I'm not the only member on Advanceshipping Inc. who feels strongly about the ONE Campaign. For those of you who don't know what the ONE Campaign is, it's a movement that aims to increase funding for international aid programs, and their effectiveness. It is a grassroots organization and focuses on ending extreme poverty and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Some of you may recall them as the organizors of Live 8 in 2005. The Campaign was launched in mid-2004, and by mid-2005 it already had more members than the NRA.
Like many who are members of the ONE campaign, today I received an email from Josh Peck, one of the more prominant members of ONE. The text below is as follows:
I'm posting this here for one simple reason. I would like everyone here who reads this to go to www.one.org/visitafrica/ and sign up on the petition. You do not have to be a resident of the United States to do this (I'm not). All it takes is one click of the mouse button. You can also send a personalized message with your signing, if you like. My message to the Presidential Candidates is below:
The target is 50 000 signatures. In the time that it has taken my type this message, it has gone from 7% of the target signatures to 15% of the target signatures (7600 people).
Let's work to end extreme senseless poverty. Is it right that hundreds of young children die every day because they couldn't afford a 40-cent immunization that would have saved their lives? Is it right that children are born every day with HIV because their mother couldn't afford a cheap medication that would have prevented her from passing the disease on?
If you sign the petition and/or leave a personalized message for the Presidential Canidates, please reply to this topic with a copy of your message.
Thank you,
www.one.org/visitafrica/
Like many who are members of the ONE campaign, today I received an email from Josh Peck, one of the more prominant members of ONE. The text below is as follows:
President Bush is flying to Africa on Friday. This is his second trip to Africa, making him only the second U.S. president—along with President Clinton—to visit Africa while in office. It's critical that the next president strengthen the relationship between America and Africa and keep this tradition alive.
In December, you put presidential candidates on the record. Now, let's put them on the continent.
Sign the petition and ask all of the presidential candidates to pledge to visit Africa during their first term here.
When the candidates commit to going to Africa, we'll be that much closer to guaranteeing that the next president will join 2.4 million ONE members in being a partner in building a better future for millions of Africans and people living in extreme poverty around the world.
On his trip to Africa, President Bush will cast a spotlight on the kind of smart, bipartisan initiatives that are saving lives. In six days, he will visit Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia and witness the very real progress in fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and extreme poverty that has been made since 2003 when he last visited the continent.
Presidential trips are important. It's one thing to receive briefings in Washington from bureaucrats and ambassadors. But it is another to witness first-hand the fight against extreme poverty and global disease.
By the time President Bush returns from Africa, we want to have sent 50,000 messages to the remaining presidential candidates urging them to pledge to visit Africa during their first term.
Add your voice to this call.
Since President Bush's last trip to Africa, ONE members have helped to secure historic advances in the fight to end needless suffering in that continent's poorest countries. The evidence is clear—from providing life-saving antiretroviral drugs through PEPFAR to increasing economic prospects through the African Growth and Opportunity Act—our voice for bipartisan leadership in the fight to make poverty history is being heard and lives are being saved.
But the future is less than certain. If we remain silent, there is no guarantee that the next president will work to strengthen our relationship with the many vibrant nations of Africa.
Seeing extreme poverty up close is a transformative experience. Imagine the impact a trip to Africa has on the president. And imagine the power he or she has to shape policy and save lives. That is why it is so vital you ask the presidential candidates to pledge to visit Africa during their first term.
Thank you for your voice,
Josh Peck, ONE.org
In December, you put presidential candidates on the record. Now, let's put them on the continent.
Sign the petition and ask all of the presidential candidates to pledge to visit Africa during their first term here.
When the candidates commit to going to Africa, we'll be that much closer to guaranteeing that the next president will join 2.4 million ONE members in being a partner in building a better future for millions of Africans and people living in extreme poverty around the world.
On his trip to Africa, President Bush will cast a spotlight on the kind of smart, bipartisan initiatives that are saving lives. In six days, he will visit Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia and witness the very real progress in fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and extreme poverty that has been made since 2003 when he last visited the continent.
Presidential trips are important. It's one thing to receive briefings in Washington from bureaucrats and ambassadors. But it is another to witness first-hand the fight against extreme poverty and global disease.
By the time President Bush returns from Africa, we want to have sent 50,000 messages to the remaining presidential candidates urging them to pledge to visit Africa during their first term.
Add your voice to this call.
Since President Bush's last trip to Africa, ONE members have helped to secure historic advances in the fight to end needless suffering in that continent's poorest countries. The evidence is clear—from providing life-saving antiretroviral drugs through PEPFAR to increasing economic prospects through the African Growth and Opportunity Act—our voice for bipartisan leadership in the fight to make poverty history is being heard and lives are being saved.
But the future is less than certain. If we remain silent, there is no guarantee that the next president will work to strengthen our relationship with the many vibrant nations of Africa.
Seeing extreme poverty up close is a transformative experience. Imagine the impact a trip to Africa has on the president. And imagine the power he or she has to shape policy and save lives. That is why it is so vital you ask the presidential candidates to pledge to visit Africa during their first term.
Thank you for your voice,
Josh Peck, ONE.org
I'm posting this here for one simple reason. I would like everyone here who reads this to go to www.one.org/visitafrica/ and sign up on the petition. You do not have to be a resident of the United States to do this (I'm not). All it takes is one click of the mouse button. You can also send a personalized message with your signing, if you like. My message to the Presidential Candidates is below:
It is vital that help is provided for these people. In America, when one person dies where they could have lived had help been provided, it is called negligence, a criminal offence. What is it called when an African dies because their sister or brother in the west chose not to help when they could?
One death is a tragedy; thousands of deaths is a statistic. Imagine if these numbers applied to illiteracy, or unemployment rates in America. Wouldn't you want to do something to help then? Lets work to eradicate these high statistics and give the people of Africa the only thing that they ask for.
Life.
One death is a tragedy; thousands of deaths is a statistic. Imagine if these numbers applied to illiteracy, or unemployment rates in America. Wouldn't you want to do something to help then? Lets work to eradicate these high statistics and give the people of Africa the only thing that they ask for.
Life.
The target is 50 000 signatures. In the time that it has taken my type this message, it has gone from 7% of the target signatures to 15% of the target signatures (7600 people).
Let's work to end extreme senseless poverty. Is it right that hundreds of young children die every day because they couldn't afford a 40-cent immunization that would have saved their lives? Is it right that children are born every day with HIV because their mother couldn't afford a cheap medication that would have prevented her from passing the disease on?
If you sign the petition and/or leave a personalized message for the Presidential Canidates, please reply to this topic with a copy of your message.
Thank you,
www.one.org/visitafrica/
