We can help in many ways!
I'd like to meet:
STATS {source:library.thinkquest.org}*15 MILLION children die of hunger each year*Instead of buying that missile to bomb civilians intentionally, the U.S. government could use our tax dollars to feed a school full of children for 5 YEARS*1.3 billion live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people {report from UNICEF)*More than 1 billion children suffer from one or more extreme forms of deprivation in adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, decent sanitation facilities, health-care services, shelter, education and information* 1 out of 8 children in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night*According to the US Department of Agriculture, up to 1/5 of America's food is wasted each year. The annual value of this lost food is about $31 billion, but the real story is that roughly 49 million people could have been fed by those lost resources"As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 'I tell you the truth,' he said, 'this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out her poverty put in all she had to live on'" (Luke 21:1-4).
Music:
I made this music player at MyFlashFetish .com.
"WE" are major participants in world hunger!!!Half of the water consumed in the U.S. is used to feed livestock; 70 Percent of the grains we grow are used to feed these animals.CONCLUSION: We Could Decrease Our Meat Consumption And Use The Resources To Help End World Hunger.
Movies:
"Bush Family Fortunes", "The Panama Deception",
"Outfoxed", "The Future of Food", "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You", and "The Perfect Stranger".
Television:
Read Vandana Shiva "Earth Democracy: Justice Sustainability and Peace"Millions of indigenous farmers are forced to work in sweatshops for pennies a day because they cannot compete with agribusiness. Corporations prevent farmers from saving seeds; thus, they must buy new, GM seeds every year. The farmers become in debt.In 2004, 16,000 farmers in India committed suicide! BUT this is not suicide! The UN states Genocide as deliberately inflicting conditions on a group of peoples (national/racial/religious) to bring about its physical destruction in part or whole! The WTO's Agreement on Agriculture promotes "producer retirement"! Hence, corporate farming and other forms of economic globalization are GENOCIDE!
Books:
My favorite book is The Bible, but I also enjoy reading about war propaganda, the Global Justice Movement, holistic medicine, and anything which reveals the truth such as "Fog Facts", "Global Revolt", "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" (there's a movie, too), "World-Systems Analysis", "A Century of Media, A Century of War", and "No Logo". Need more suggestions?!?!
Heroes:
We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jesus Christ!I admire every individual who has mental and physical disabilities, all the beautiful orphans, people who fight the World-System, and those who know TRUE LOVE!
