It's tomorrow: Election Day! The ONE Campaign has provided a handy chart comparing McCain's and Obama's positions on various issues related to international development and foreign aid. (Both candidates have some good things to say, but I think it's important that we know what they're saying.) The page also provides links to videos of both candidates speaking about global poverty, and more comprehensive information. Click here to check it out. (Sorry there's no info here about third-party candidates.) Have fun with your ballot box!
By the way...you guys are killing me with the lack of comments. Come on! Say something!
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"My trip to the former Yugoslavia had opened the world for me, and my hunger for the world. In doing so, it undid the contained, safe borders of my existence. Suddenly a woman weeping over her lost son in an image on the front page of The New York Times was no longer a theoretical entity. She was real, a woman I might have met, might have known. I was connected to her. I could no longer divorce myself from her pain, her suffering. Initially this was overwhelming. I had nightmares. I felt restless and wrong in my comforting life in America. Everything seemed absurd and pointless. I came to understand why we block out the pain and atrocities of others. That pain, if we allow it to enter us, makes our lives impossible. It forces us to examine our own values and reality. It insists that we be responsible for others. It thrusts us into the messy world where there are no easy solutions or reasons, only struggles and questions. It creates great fissures in the landscape of our insulated, so-called safe reality. Fissures that, once split open, can never close again. It compels us to act."
(Eve Ensler)
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
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"But in the end, there will still be a morning like this one, full of new light, and a distant voice will be heard, like a memory of before we became people. And the tones of a song will well up, the gentle lull of the first mother. This song, yes indeed, will be ours, the memory of a deep root that they were unable to wrench out of us. This voice will give us the strength for a new beginning, and upon hearing it, the corpses will find peace in their graves and the survivors will embrace life with the simple joy of young lovers. All this will happen if we are able to rid ourselves of this time that has made animals out of us. Let us strive to die like the people we no longer are."
(Mia Couto)
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"If they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away."
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VOTE! BE GRATEFUL THAT YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE SUCH A MAGNIFICENT PRIVILEGE IS BESTOWED UPON YOU!
A comment. In all caps, no less. :)
that's more like it!
thanks liz :)
I voted a couple weeks ago, early ballot! Yay! I'm just getting into this political stuff, so I had to sit at the computer and look up a lot of things to make an informed decision. Here's a pathetic confession: This is my first time voting in a presidential election! So I'm proud to say I voted, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to vote!
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