Tomorrow could be their independence day

[airieslady]

Dear ONE Member:

 

 

One year ago, I stood on the stage of Live 8 in Philadelphia, the biggest concert event in history, talking about something that was only an idea at the time. It was the idea that, with the stroke of a pen, eight of the world's leaders could change the future of millions of the poorest people.

 

Five days later, they did.

 

That moment resulted in unprecedented commitments to the world's poorest people for debt relief, fair trade, and better development assistance. Join me in asking our leaders to keep the promises America made one year ago that, if kept, will save 4 million lives by 2010.

 

July 4th is our Independence Day. It represents the day our nation started down a path of our own making. Many people don't realize that development assistance is not about handouts, it's about providing the means for a country to provide for itself. It's about giving that country the opportunity to celebrate its own Independence Day.

 

Every three seconds someone dies of poverty-related disease, but sometimes it's hard to remember that we are talking about people, not numbers. An actual person — somebody's daughter, sister, or mother — dies every three seconds just because she was born on the other side of an invisible line. Together, we can make statistics like that history.

 

Join me in sending a message to our leaders asking them to keep the promises America made one year ago.

http://action.one.org/dia/track.jsp?key=63818111&url_num=2&url=http://action.one.org/dia/organizationsONE/one/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=103&t=OneColumn.dwt

Thank you,

 

Will Smith, ONE Campaign

 

One.org

[victaniac]

Thanks Airies :nice:

[airieslady]

You are welcome! :)