The Importance of Tomorrow (World AIDS Day)
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow is one of the MOST IMPORTANT days of the year in the fight against extreme poverty - World AIDS Day.
This is the 17th annual observance of this day - a day which we should all reflect on the state of the world for its poorest and most vunerable residents and examine what our role should be in the elimination of extreme poverty from our planet.
Many people here know of my lifelong commitment to be one of those who actively struggle for a better world for EVERYONE. I have been an active African activist for nearly twenty-five years and will never stop.
Through Bono's involvement in this struggle for Africa's Future, many people here have come to know more about the obscene inequities in our world and many of you have found a way, especially through the ONE Campaign to start your own long walk to freedom and fairness for the world's poorest people.
For that, I want to personally thank you - the People of Africa need all the friends in our world that they can get in order to improve their standard of living.
So I ask you to DO SOMETHING TOMORROW on World AIDS Day - attend a meeting, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, tell your friends about the AIDS pandemic and what we CAN DO TO STOP IT.
Definitely WEAR YOUR WHITE BAND. (http://www.whiteband.org)
And if you're home tomorrow night, PLEASE tune into either MTV or VH1 as they are to have some programming on the AIDS pandemic. (although I can't find the info on their sites, they have been advertising these specials all week on the air.)
In closing let me leave you with links to websites about this crisis that should know of (some of which you probably do).
Thank you for reading this post - I try to only post when I feel I have something important and positive to contribute.
And I can't honestly think of a subject that I feel more PASSIONATELY AND PERSONALLY about than the way that AIDS is decimating the lives and futures of millions of African people EVERY YEAR and leaving almost totally helpless and vunerable over 15 MILLION AIDS orphaned children!
We have to do better than this - and many of us are daily trying.
We want you to get involved too.
To quote our favorite Irishman and world ambassador of Soul - where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
To that, I can only say - AMEN, BONO.
Take good care of yourselves as we try to take good care of each other.
Blessings always.
FOREVER ONE, debbie
http://www.worldaidsday.org
http://www.one.org
http://www.maketradefair.org
There's no them, there's ONLY US!
Everything IS Possible!
I AM, because WE ARE!
Help end poverty. Email the key leaders and tell them to stand up for trade justice against the rich countries at the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in December 2005. Act now at:
http://whiteband.org/Actions/wto/sth.en/takeaction?o=typ&v=cpss
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow is one of the MOST IMPORTANT days of the year in the fight against extreme poverty - World AIDS Day.
This is the 17th annual observance of this day - a day which we should all reflect on the state of the world for its poorest and most vunerable residents and examine what our role should be in the elimination of extreme poverty from our planet.
Many people here know of my lifelong commitment to be one of those who actively struggle for a better world for EVERYONE. I have been an active African activist for nearly twenty-five years and will never stop.
Through Bono's involvement in this struggle for Africa's Future, many people here have come to know more about the obscene inequities in our world and many of you have found a way, especially through the ONE Campaign to start your own long walk to freedom and fairness for the world's poorest people.
For that, I want to personally thank you - the People of Africa need all the friends in our world that they can get in order to improve their standard of living.
So I ask you to DO SOMETHING TOMORROW on World AIDS Day - attend a meeting, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, tell your friends about the AIDS pandemic and what we CAN DO TO STOP IT.
Definitely WEAR YOUR WHITE BAND. (http://www.whiteband.org)
And if you're home tomorrow night, PLEASE tune into either MTV or VH1 as they are to have some programming on the AIDS pandemic. (although I can't find the info on their sites, they have been advertising these specials all week on the air.)
In closing let me leave you with links to websites about this crisis that should know of (some of which you probably do).
Thank you for reading this post - I try to only post when I feel I have something important and positive to contribute.
And I can't honestly think of a subject that I feel more PASSIONATELY AND PERSONALLY about than the way that AIDS is decimating the lives and futures of millions of African people EVERY YEAR and leaving almost totally helpless and vunerable over 15 MILLION AIDS orphaned children!
We have to do better than this - and many of us are daily trying.
We want you to get involved too.
To quote our favorite Irishman and world ambassador of Soul - where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
To that, I can only say - AMEN, BONO.
Take good care of yourselves as we try to take good care of each other.
Blessings always.
FOREVER ONE, debbie
http://www.worldaidsday.org
http://www.one.org
http://www.maketradefair.org
There's no them, there's ONLY US!
Everything IS Possible!
I AM, because WE ARE!
Help end poverty. Email the key leaders and tell them to stand up for trade justice against the rich countries at the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in December 2005. Act now at:
http://whiteband.org/Actions/wto/sth.en/takeaction?o=typ&v=cpss
