CLICK ON THIS LINK!! Gratitude to the Sower "Photizo". http://photizo.zaadz.com/blog/2006/12/make_poverty_history_video THANKYOU FOR HAVING A LOOK! DIANA NICHOLSON, ORGANIZER "MALIBU END POVERTY MEETUP GROUP"

ANYTHING! Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development DIANA NICHOLSON, ORGANIZER "END POVERTY MALIBU MEETUP GROUP" WORLD HUNGER CAN BE DEFEATED! PROPOSAL: 1. Objective: to help realize the "Millennium Declaration Goals" and raise awareness of the issues and remedies as suggested in Jeffrey Sachs book "End Of Poverty." 2. Suggestion: Instead of attempting a perhaps overwhelming task of signing up over 50% of the entire country: Think global act local: suggestion; Create a referendum in Malibu that can be an example and can be duplicated throughout the state and the country. 3. Example: Gather enough signatures to have a ballot initiative for a vote in Malibu (independent of any organization). Suggestion: To ask homeowners to check a box yes or no to allocate 4% of the states property tax to go towards upholding the Millennium Declaration Goals. 4. Goal: On October 16 world hunger day. Have the City of Malibu issue a proclamation to the effect that "We the people of Malibu", endorse the Millennium Promise Goals and believe .7% of our country's GNP should be dedicated to ending world hunger. Furthermore, we urge California, as the world's 17th largest economy IN THE WORLD, to do the same and we urge and endorse a state and national ballot initiative (or referendum) for the November ballot". 5. Research: How to get an initiative on the ballot for Malibu and the State of California. 6. Task: Consult with existent non-profits working on this to have them endorse this as well. 7. Idea: To create a national groundswell through grassroots movement much like the California tax revolt (for better or worse, started by one guy), etc. 8. Ancillary ideas: feasibility of having Malibu walk the walk and how it might find a formula to  dedicate .7% of its own GNP. 9. Set future realizable goals associated with this. The idea is everyone is for good things (end world hunger, peace, etc). This is a specific endorsement of a specific way to get there....a roadmap. 10. It is about a clear cut issue that is realizable and not about people, egos, groups, etc. You either endorse your town proclaiming this or not. Moreover, this is a political vehicle already in place as opposed to trying to "re-invent the wheel" and create a new political organization. 11. The meet-up group will be our round table to discuss, and propose other ideas with the focus, hopefully on clear cut realizable goals as well as ways to heighten awareness of the issues, to navigate people to sign our petition. 12. In short: nothing succeeds like success. We are creating something that can succeed by a certain date. Edited by diana nicholson on Jan 14, 2007 at 7:14 PM

THE COVER! http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050314/ MARCH 14, 2005, EXCERPTS FROM SACH'S BOOK "END OF POVERTY"

Capitalism Is the Cure for Africa's Problems By: Andrew Bernstein It is capitalism that enabled the West to rise to great prosperity. A specter is haunting Africa--the specter of starvation. At least 2.5 million Zambians currently face famine, as do millions more across southern Africa--in Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The United Nations estimates that more than 14 million Africans face possible starvation by March 2003. According to the comprehensive 2001 Index of Economic Freedom, sub-Sahara Africa "remains...by far the poorest...area in the world." In Ethiopia, per capita GNP is estimated at $108. In Sierra Leone the figure is $146; in Mozambique $178; in Tanzania $180. By contrast, the per capita GNP in the United States exceeds $30,000. Most people forget that pre-industrial Europe was vastly POORER than contemporary Africa and had a much *lower* life expectancy. Even a relatively well-off country like France is estimated to have suffered seven general famines in the 15th century, thirteen in the 16th, eleven in the 17th and sixteen in the 18th. And disease was rampant. Given an utter lack of sanitation, the bubonic plague, typhus and other diseases recurred incessantly into the 18th century, killing tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands at a time. The effect on life expectancy was predictable. In parts of France, in the middle of the 17th century, only 58 percent reached their 15th birthday, and life expectancy was 20. In IRELAND, life expectancy in 1800 was a mere 19 years. In early 18th century London, more than 74 percent of the children died before reaching age five. Then a dramatic change occurred throughout Europe. The population of England doubled between 1750 and 1820, with childhood mortality dropping to 31.8 percent by 1830. Something happened that enabled people to stay alive. What did that early period lack that the later period had? CAPITALISM. What does Africa lack that the West has? CAPITALISM. It is capitalism that enabled the West to rise to great prosperity. *** The LACK of capitalism is responsible for Africa's crushing poverty. *** What is capitalism? It is an economic system in which all property is privately owned, a system without government regulation and government handouts. It is a free economy, a system in which individuals are free to produce, to trade, and to make--and keep--a profit. Capitalism is a social system based on *individual rights*, the right of every individual to his life, his liberty and the pursuit of his own happiness. The thinkers of the Enlightenment, including John Locke and the Founding Fathers, brought these ideas to the forefront in Europe and America. The result was an economic revolution, which--in a relatively brief time--transformed the West from a poverty-stricken region to one of great productive wealth. This system of freedom liberated the most creative minds of Western society, resulting in a torrent of innovations--from James Watt's steam engine to Louis Pasteur's germ theory to Henry Ford's automobile to the Wright Brothers' airplane and much more. This new freedom, and the Industrial Revolution it spawned, resulted in vast increases in agricultural and industrial production. Creative minds--from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs--flourish ONLY under freedom. The result is new products, new jobs, new wealth, in short: the furtherance of life on earth, in length, quantity and quality. *** Under the kings, theocracies, military dictatorships and socialist regimes that dominate Africa, such minds are stifled. The result is stagnation, poverty and death. *** Africa has the identical natural resource fundamentally responsible for the West's rise: the HUMAN MIND. But it has neither the freedom nor the Enlightenment *philosophy of reason*, individualism and political liberty *necessary for creating wealth and health*. Africa is mired in tribal cultures that stress subordination to the group rather than personal independence and achievement. All over the continent brutal dictators murder and rob innocent citizens in order to aggrandize themselves and members of their tribes. What Africa desperately needs is to remove the political and economic shackles and replace them with political and economic freedom. It needs to depose the military dictators and socialist regimes and *establish capitalism*, with its political/economic freedom, its rule of law and respect for [and protection of] individual rights. And to accomplish that, it first needs to remove the ***philosophic shackles and replace tribal collectivism with a philosophy of reason and freedom.*** The truly humanitarian system is not the Marxism espoused by Western intellectuals but the only system that CAN establish, as it *historically has*, the furtherance of life on earth: capitalism. January 6, 2003 Andrew Bernstein, Ph.D. in philosophy, is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

!. Every week, AIDS claims as many lives as American fatalities in the Vietnam War. Since it was discovered, AIDS has killed nearly 30 million people equal to the combined population of Arizona and Texas, and nearly 10 times the number of earthquake fatalities in the last century.

2. 6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS every day. If all of these children held hands they would stretch five and half times across the United States. By 2011, this virtual chain will reach around the world.

3. What Makes AIDS so different from killer epidemics of the past?

Unlike the black Plague of flu epidemics that largely spared the healthy, working-age population, AIDS is decimating the ranks of teachers, parents, doctors, and farmers the very people a society relies upon to provide for basic needs. As a result, children and the elderly are left to fend for themselves.

4. Food shortages are a big problem. By 2020, AIDS will have claimed the lives of at least one-fifth of southern Africa's agricultural workers. Food production is just one area in which AIDS threatens to reverse decades of development work in poor communities.

5. a. Sex with a virgin cures aids?
b. If you feel healthy you cannot be Hiv positive?
c. Aids is caused by evil spirits?

All of these are popular myths in developing countries. Limited formal education, lack of access to reliable information, and inadequate health care all promote harmful myths about AIDS.

6. Of the approximately 3.4 billion adults living in the developing world, how many are illiterate?

The answer is 870 million or 25% are illiterate. For women in the
illiterate?developing world, the illiteracy rate is even higher 33%

7. How many of the world's 6 billion people live on less than $1 a day?

1.2 Billion
According to the latest available statistics, 1.2 billion people or 20% of the world's population live on less than $1 a day. In sub-Saharan Africa there are 302 million people living on less than a dollar a day. The figure in Latin America is
60.7 million.

8. What percentage of the United States gross domestic product (GDP) did the U.S. government dedicate to foreign aid in 2001

.11%
In 2001, the United States government allocated 0.11% of the total U.S. gross domestic product to foreign aid. In comparison, Denmark allocated 1.01% of its GDP. Relative to the size of its economy, this is 10 times what the United States gives.

9. The richest 20% of the world's population holds 86% of the world's wealth (measured in gross domestic product or GDP). What share of the
Less than 1%

Twenty percent of the world's population 1.2 billion people controls less than 1% of the world's wealth.


10. The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, with a gross national product (GNP) per capita of $29,000. What is the GNP per capita in the poorest country, Sierra Leone?

$140
According to the latest estimates, Sierra Leone's GNP per capita is $140. In two countries where ACCION works Bolivia and Honduras GNP per capita is $740 and $1,010, respectively.

11. Janurary 17, 2007
The emergence of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) — a form of TB that can be incurable — has set off alarms throughout the global health community. Called “Ebola on steroids” by some, XDR-TB is a particularly deadly threat to people with HIV/AIDS and is swelling to emergency proportions in Southern Africa. Unless steps are taken now to strengthen TB control efforts in Africa and throughout the world, these deadly strains will continue to spread and multiply — undermining much of the recent progress in AIDS treatment scale-up and TB control, and posing a risk to the U.S. and members of our armed forces serving overseas.

12. “Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum.” muhammad yunas nobel peace prize 2006 

HAVE A LOOK AT THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY LYNNE FRIEDMAN, FOR THE MALIBU TIMES JANUARY 25TH, 2007 ISSUE. http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2007/01/24/life_and_arts/art1.txt

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The Stephen Lewis Foundation recieved a 1 million dollar donation from Alberta business women Jackie Flanagan. She is an angel and a saving grace! Much Gratitude, Love and Light to you Jackie Flanagan! http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/news_item.cfm?news=1730

5 Facts about Racial Discrimination   Fact 1 In 2005 there were 26,740 charges of race discrimination Fact 2 The concept of race has no biological basis. It is a socio-political construction . Fact 3 A 2002 special report revealed that black students in Seattle schools — regardless of family income — are more than twice as likely to be suspended or expelled than other students. Fact 4 American schools are becoming increasingly segregated, despite the nation's growing diversity. Fact 5 It wasn’t until 2000 that U.S. Census respondents were given the option of selecting one or more race categories to indicate their racial identities even though about 6.8 million Americans identify with two or more races. SOURCES • (Race; The Power of Illusion, 2003, PBS) http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:EacZR-IA2_oJ:www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm+the+concept+of+race+has+no+biological+basis&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7 Investigative Journalism-Historical info on campaign to end urban poverty In late nineteenth century New York City, Jacob A. Riis, a Danish immigrant and police reporter in New York, launched a personal campaign to expose the misery of the underprivileged who resided in New York City's dangerous tenements of the lower East Side. In doing so, his writings and his photography provided a spark for future generations of investigative journalists. Excerpt from Riis's book "How the other half lives" 1890; http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/chap3.html#para5 More from this book; http://www.bartleby.com/208/ From his book "Battle with the Slum"; http://www.bartleby.com/175/ What does it mean to be American? Jacob Riis's work, is a reminder of what this country is made of; IMMIGRANTS, from every part of the world. A quote from Debbie Allen, who recently said on a television show "I am a citizen of the WORLD!" Ultimately we are all from one place, Planet Earth! What we do affects them and what they do affects us, and what we all do affects our Mother Earth. Let's celebrate the differences, and acknowledge the sameness! Come together as one. Riis's idea inspired Jack London to write a similar exposé on London's East End, most notably Whitechapel, called People of the Abyss.