Monday, January 14, 2013

Mass Poverty: We Have the Power to Change the Rules

By JOE BREWER , MARTIN KIRK , ADRIANA VALDEZ YOUNG

“Sadly, more than 7 million children die every year before they reach their 5th birthday due to preventable and treatable causes” 
mass poverty is not a natural part of universal moral order...
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The rules have created a social and economic system that clearly does not work for the majority of the world’s people. The world’s 1,226 billionaires have more combined wealth than 3.5 billion peoplehalf the entire planet’s population
The richest 10 per cent of the world’s population takes 90 per cent of the world’s income.

The Rules (a new platform launched in Nov 2012): to help promote accurate narratives around poverty; to challenge and change the rules– the most basic drivers of inequality and poverty; to organise with people and grassroots movements;to communicate with one another and act collectively...

Human-made rules express and entrench much of the injustice in our world today. 

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