It is painfully ironic that the the world "leaders" at the G8 summit lack the leadership to grapple with the challenges of our time. From AID, to trade to climate change, the best they can do is try not to piss each other off… how pitiful is that!

In a recent interview in the New York Times Magazine Al Gore says, “The monolith of apathy and opposition has begun to break up; and because social change, like climate change is nonlinear, the shift in public opinion may come about very suddenly.”
The tipping point may in fact already be at hand even in [...]

In a CBC interview aired May 17th, world-renowned author, philosopher and recent winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, Charles Taylor says that in our post-911 adversarial world the absence of meaning in the lives of young men is fertile ground for suicide bombers. “We need to look into what makes this kind of meaning vacuum,” [...]

Today in Berlin Bono and Bob Geldof held a press conference to call upon G8 nations to meet their commitments to double aid to Africa by 2010. So far the G8 countries, including Canada are falling far short. Today, 41% of Africans are living on less than one dollar a day.
A report released [...]

One of the many results of globalization has been the emergence of global social movements to well … address the other results of globalization … such as unfair trade practices, increase militarization and massive human displacement, loss of food sovereignty and the lack of local accountability with decision-making powers shifting upward and in many cases [...]

Make Poverty History engages over 230,000 Canadians. October 17, 2007 will be the next Global White Band Day of Action and that the theme will be “STAND UP and SPEAK OUT”. MPH Canada is active has over 50 local groups in communities across Canada and will be “standing up and speaking out” this October [...]

So it has been a few weeks now since June Callwood died. A most remarkable of Canadian lives she lived and lived to its fullest. Many words have been said about her passing.
I remember when working with a NGO how I would craft the public service announcements each year that she [...]

The whiteband… we are seeing it more and more. Here at the Global Call to Action Against Poverty international meeting in Uruguay over 150 people are wearing a version of the whiteband. I was given a white beaded version from India and a band of seeds made by women in Brazil and the Russian [...]

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty helps to legitimize the work of eradicating poverty say many campaigners gathered in Uruguay. Here today, front line campaigners are planning their next global actions to make political leaders accountable. Seven years ago now the world leaders made promises of aid dollars. by 2015 poverty [...]

There are white bands everywhere. People from across the globe are here in Montevideo in solidarity to end poverty and inequality around the world. The white band as many of you know is the universal symbol of this movement. Supporting this massive dynamic social movement, Catapult Media is here.
There is a [...]