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vision to fight global poverty

I met Eugene Cho about 2 years ago at lunch at the Mustard Seed House. What struck me about Eugene was his open and honest approach to ministry and how that tend to affect family life. Recently Eugene and his wife Minhee, began a non-profit/non-religious grassroots humanitarian organization with the vision of joining others to fight extreme global poverty. 
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using facebook to fight global poverty « beauty and depravity

This comes from my friend Eugene Cho
using facebook to fight global poverty
After mocking social networking sites for awhile, I finally joined Facebook one year ago. And while there are still some things that I strongly dislike about Facebook [e.g. constant invitations to Applications], I am a big fan. It works. I’ve [...]

Dispatches From Latin America - Tuesday Book Review

Some of you have asked me to recommend you a starter about Autonomous/ Global Justice/ Global Citizens Movements in Latin America. Today is your day.
For this Tuesday Book Review, I’m excited to share with you what I consider an excellent primer to liberation and anti-neoliberalism movements in America Latina - Dispatches from Latin America: On [...]

Global poverty prayer week

Global poverty prayer week
Global poverty prayer week (12-18 Nov)
Tearfund’s Global poverty prayer week (12-18 November 2007) pulls together thousands of Christians hungry to hear God and keen to be part of a miracle.
We’ve created a special, free DVD for you to use with your church during the prayer week - click here to order, or [...]

Confronting the Empire

Abolition of poor countries external debt
Control of international financial capital and taxation for wealth redistribution and development financing
Moratorium on the WTO to reorient international trade
Public control (oversee) of transnational companies
Defense of labor rights
Development of a solidarity economic sector
Environmental reconstruction and sustainable development
Creation and extension of universal health care and education system
Food sovereignty
Democratization of mass communication [...]

Shock Doctrine

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Naomi Klein  - Shock Doctrine

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Make Affluence History

Make Affluence History
The high living standards read: mass consumption of industrialized nations is subsidized by the very low and lowering living standards of underdeveloped nations. We rarely connect our wealth and the poverty of others. To make poverty history, we need to Make Affluence History.
action ideas
skimp on consumption
Spend one day (or week, or month) [...]