August 17, 2010
30,000 kids died unnecessarily today and it didn’t even make the front page of your newspaper. Another 30,000 kids will die unnecessarily tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that UNLESS something changes. This shocking information – which should stop anyone with a heart and soul in their tracks – comes not from […]
July 17, 2010
One and half billion people – more than 1 out of every 5 people in the world – have no electricity and the powers-that-be could care less. In fact, the powers-that-be don’t even care enough about one-fifth of the world lacking electricity to even make a phony promise that they’ll ever get electricity to those who need it. […]
July 15, 2010
What a shitty way to die! 41 percent of humanity, yes you read that right, 41 percent, still shit in the streets because they don’t have proper sanitation, not to mention that “[t]oilet paper is an unimaginable luxury”. (4). This lack of sanitation leads to the 2nd biggest killer of children -diarrhea. Really. First, what do I mean […]
June 17, 2010
*17 percent of humanity without access to clean water, that’s more than 1.1 BILLION people, and this has nothing to do with water scarcity. There is plenty to go around. WHAT DOES IT MEAN “NOT HAVING ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER”? “Not having access” to water and sanitation is a polite euphemism for a form […]
May 10, 2010
In 2007, 854 million people do not get enough food each day to sustain a normal life even though there’s plenty of food for everyone! Hunger and malnutrition are actually “the underlying CAUSE OF MORE THAN HALF OF ALL CHILD DEATHS”. Hunger is also INCREASING in the world instead of decreasing. Read this story for details and weep (and then […]
March 17, 2010
Copied below is an article that actually did appear on the front page of a newspaper, entitled “Drugs Banned, World’s Poor Suffer in Pain”, on 9/10/07 in the New York Times. Did you happen to see it? I missed it myself, but someone told me about it. Since it concerns the needless suffering of millions of people, you […]
