This is a site worth having a look at: ActionAid UK: End poverty. Together.
ActionAid doesnt just tackle the effects of poverty.We also change what keeps people poor. ActionAid improves people’s lives every day. But we know that’s not enough. So we work relentlessly to change whatever is keeping them trapped in poverty. This means we have a better chance of ending poverty for good.
A petition sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) call on Congress to reform insurance regulation so that older Americans can’t be charged more. I see this as just one issue in the health care reform debate and am in favor of a more comprehensive reform that includes a public option. But this is important.
It’s time for Congress to put a stop to health insurance companies discriminating based on age! Americans aged 50 to 64 are currently charged five times or more for health insurance than a younger person — just because of their age.It’s a practice called “age rating,” which insurance companies use to deliberately make health care more expensive for older Americans, driving up the ranks of the uninsured among them. And it must change.
via End Discriminatory Health Insurance Practices – The Petition Site.
The propoganda war continues, with alarming virulence. FactCheck.org continues to put it in perspective. Here are two strories.
The Republican National Committee this week posted a “Health Care Bill of Rights for Seniors,” which RNC Chairman Michael Steele and others have taken to the airwaves to publicize. It contains a number of claims we’ve seen and criticized before, but also contains one new one that has some truth to it, and another fresh one that has very little.
For the full analysis, read the story, RNC’s “Bill of Rights” | FactCheck.org.
Another posting concerns a chain email circulating at the moment. Our inbox has been overrun with messages asking us to weigh in on a mammoth list of claims about the House health care bill. The chain e-mail purports to give “a few highlights” from the first half of the bill, but the list of 48 assertions is filled with falsehoods, exaggerations and misinterpretations. We examined each of the e-mail’s claims, finding 26 of them to be false and 18 to be misleading, only partly true or half true. Only four are accurate. A few of our “highlights”:
The e-mail claims that page 30 of the bill says that “a government committee will decide what treatments … you get,” but that page refers to a “private-public advisory committee” that would “recommend” what minimum benefits would be included in basic, enhanced and premium insurance plans…
And it doesn’t stop there. Read on!
via Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200
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Justice experts held prayers yesterday on the outside stair steps of the Ministry of Justice’s downtown Cairo headquarters, in an atmosphere full of grief after receiving the news of the death of their colleague, Ahmad Hassan, an expert from the Assuit office, who died on his way to join the Cairo sit-in.
A delegation of the strikers headed yesterday to Assuit to take part in Hassan’s funeral, while other experts prayed on the ministry’s stair steps in Cairo..
“The ministry’s officials are betting we won’t be able to continue (striking) in Ramadan, but we’re ready to continue until al-Fitr Feast,” said the experts, assuring their will to remain on strike until their demands are fulfilled.
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This is worth knowing about: Climate Counts – Scorecard Overview
Climate Counts is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change.
We score the world’s largest companies on their climate impact to spur corporate climate responsibility and conscious consumption. Our goal is to motivate deeper awareness among consumers — that the issue of climate change demands their attention, and that they have the power to support companies that take climate change seriously and avoid those that don’t.
As soccer/football fans know, this year’s FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association or International Federation of Association Football) World Cup is being held in South Africa. Seizing the opportunity provided by the publicity this phenomenally popular event brings, (imagine Super Bowl x2), FIFA is using the opportunity to promote universal access to education.
This World Cup, we’re asking fans to sign up to give 75 million children a fair chance in life. Education beats Poverty – and gives people the tools to help themselves.
Global football stars, the football world and its governing body, FIFA, are behind 1GOAL. This World Cup is a moment for us to shine – let’s leave a legacy of education. We don’t want your money – we just want you on our team. Write Your Name for those who can’t. Join1GOAL.org
1 GOAL is an ambitious and important campaign that will change the lives of children living in poverty by helping to give them an education. We’re campaigning in over 200 countries from now until the FIFA World Cup final in South Africa in 2010.
1 GOAL is quite simply a global team that will voice our wishes to world leaders to keep their promise of giving everyone an education by 2015.
This week (August 17-23) is World Water Week. During this time, experts, practitioners, decision makers and leaders from around the globe will come to Stockholm, Sweden, to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions for the most urgent water-related issues. While the experts are meeting in Stockholm, we want to use this opportunity to bring the issues they are discussing into homes across America. World Water Week presents a great opportunity to raise awareness and galvanize support for water and sanitation measures.
A few weeks ago, Global Water Challenge launched Water Warriors, a program to help ignite a worldwide movement that will make universal access to clean water and safe sanitation a reality. As grassroots leaders, they’ll be active in their local communities and online, raising awareness and funds in creative ways; encouraging Congress to increase funding for the issue; and helping turn other people into Water Warriors to build to a crescendo of support.
via World Water Week | ONE.
To find out how you can participate, continue reading on the ONE site.
So many of us think of water as plentiful, abundant and free flowing. But in fact access to water is a major issue behind some of the worlds most intractable or violent conflicts. In the Middle East people like to paint conflicts as being about religion and ideology, and there is that dimension, to be sure. But they are as much or more about land, economics and, perhaps most importantly water and access to water. Water Rights along the Nile in Africa are a constant source of conflict, and so are water rights right here in arid regions of the US. Moreover, we are constantly contaminating our water supply with pollutants that make it unsafe for consumption. Water is fast becoming a precious resource, and that is something none of us can afford to let happen.
Here is yet another funny post from the Indecision Forever blog. But it’s laughter to keep from crying. Because the statistic below isn’t part of the joke. It’s real.
39% of voters think government should stay out of Medicare, compared to 46% who disagree. Among Republicans, 62% say the government should stay out of Medicare, compared to only 24% of Democrats and 31% of independents who agree.
Yes, 39% of voters do actually believe government should stay out of a federally funded, federally administered program. And lest we liberals get smug, it may be more than six out of ten Republicans who believe this, but it’s almost one in four Democrats, too. That’s no great shakes, either.
If there is one thing these numbers should clearly demonstrate it is that logic left this debate LONG ago. But before you get to depressed, check out the blog. At least you’ll get a laugh out of it.
New Poll Shows That People Like Expressing Opinions in Polls | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central.
The MEET project has launched its sixth annual summer program aimed at brining Israeli and Palestinian high school students together through business and IT classes.
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