White Band Day

Here's a heads-up for you, from the Make Poverty History folks:

01-July     
White Band Day 1     

International White Band Day 1, when across the globe, in the South and in the North, millions of people will wear a white band as an act of solidarity against poverty and call for world leaders to do more to eradicate poverty.

That's plenty of warning for you. If you don't already have a band, get one. In fact, get 5, and give some away.

(I bought mine online from the folks at Oxfam UK, and also from World Vision Canada. I've heard a few people say they've had trouble getting them from the Canadian MPH site.)

Comments

[robert]

I have bands for anyone that wants one. Send me an email with your address and I will throw one in the mail for you tomorrow. Will ship anywhere, including Va.

[RickinVa]

Someone explain to me how buying this band helps a person in poverty.

And why a white band? Isn't that less than PC?

[Mike]

Rick - see Changing The Wind. Also, Live 8 (It's that activism thing... letting our political leaders know we want change... that the wind has changed!)

[RickinVa]

Mike,

Jeff Doolittle makes some salient points:

I'd like to see organizations like Make Poverty History take a harder line against autocratic, despotic governments that are a major culprit in keeping much of the world under the thumb of extreme poverty. Ending poverty is the noblest of humanitarian causes and we should take whatever measures are within our power to reach this goal. My hope is for organizations such as this one to see the missing link in their logic chain. The discussion must include calls for personal freedom and free markets within developing nations.

So get involved in the fight to eradicate poverty, but let's have a complete picture of what the process will involve. Poverty cannot be permanently eradicated unless people are protected by the rule of law and the provisions of a free society.

Makes sense doesn't it?

And doesn't it also speak to your metaphor about finding out who's throwing people into the river upstream?

[Mike]

Sounds thoughts, Rick. And it does speak to the metaphor. I just figure it's easiest to start with where we're the one's throwing them in. We can and must move on from there... but we must start there.

[RickinVa]

Mike,

I've not thrown anyone in the river... whether metaphorically, figuratively or otherwise...

Have you?

I'd bet not...

So explain...