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Blog Action Day - Poverty

16 October 2008

Yesterday was Blog Action Day, an annual event aimed at raising awareness through blogging on global issues. This year’s topic of discussion was poverty, and over 12,000 bloggers worldwide took part.  Among them were many UK Green bloggers, including Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay.

Read some of the best Green blogs from Blog Action Day 2008:

  • Caroline Lucas: A Living Wage for Britain
    “A real ‘living wage’ must provide a secure margin so that the family involved does not fall into poverty and debt when it faces the kind of day-to-day challenges those of us who are better off can take in our stride: a broken kettle, the need to buy shoes for a growing child, the cost of a train journey to visit a sick relative.”
  • Adrian Ramsay: Tackling Poverty at Home
    “Given that it is the poorest who are suffering the most from rising basic living costs, the right to be part of a trade union and press for decent wages is surely as important at the moment as ever.”
  • The Daily (Maybe): Poverty, Aid and the Collapse of Capitalism
    “There may well be many bankers and financial gurus crying into their hand stitched, Saville Row hankies right at the moment but one of the over looked aspects of the current financial meltdown is the effect it will have on Western governments commitment to international development.”
  • Ruscombe Green: Call for a Green New Deal
    “We now have the opportunity to develop a fairer system of international economic governance and to redistribute the spoils of globalisation. The Green New Deal launched recently by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas offers us the ways forward we need to take.”
  • Greenman’s Occasional Organ: Poverty Blogging
    “Some of the great songs popular in the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s in the USA not only poked fun at the religious organisations that sought to exploit misery to gain recruits alongside their charity, they showed a confidence in the power of poor, working and unemployed people to take control of their situation and make a better world.” 
  • The Thursday Briefing: So shines a good deed
    "No, fair-trade will not end all poverty, but it is a valuable measure to take while the argument for a fairer global trading system is put, and hopefully won."
  • Ecomonkey: Poverty and Human Rights
    “We can insist that our governments act now to limit the negative effects of climate change. We can insist on equal rights for all regardless of differences. We can stop consuming more than we need and we can make valid efforts to support systems such as fair trade. Let's do it - today!”