EWB DAY! Celebrate the end of extreme poverty!
Students Against Global Apathy
From: EWB-ISF Canada <in...@ewb.ca>
Date: 01-Mar-2007 10:02
Subject: [ewb] EWB DAY! Celebrate the end of extreme poverty!
To: list...@ewb.ca
Today, March 1, is EWB Day 2007!
We need your help, as one of 25,000 people reading this e-mail, to let all of your colleagues, friends and family know: forward this e-mail, ask them to visit
http://www.playyourpart.ca ... it's an engaging and thought-provoking site, complete with entertaining, forward-friendly You-Tube videos!
If everyone who gets this e-mail sends it along to just 20 people, then we will reach 500,000 Canadians in just one day. Our goal is to have the most-watched You-Tube video of the day, around the world, and to test out the capacity of our server's internet connection!
The theme for the day is "Envisioning the end of Extreme Poverty", and 1,000 EWB volunteers and members across Canada are engaging 100,000 Canadians, in person in malls, transit stations and on street corners. In the words of Bono:
"We are the first generation that can look extreme and stupid poverty in the eye, look across the water to Africa and elsewhere, and say this and mean it: we have the cash, we have the drugs, we have the science -- but do we have the will?"
Today, we want to help Canadians realize that if we have the will to end extreme poverty, then it can be done; there are clear and attainable steps, there are 8 Millennium Development Goals that world leaders have agreed to, and there are past successes and precedent to build on: And Canada and Canadians can play a part in making this happen.
You can help right now:
1) Forward this e-mail along to 20 colleagues, friends and family. Tell them to visit
http://www.playyourpart.ca
2) Spend some time today reading news from Africa or about people working to end extreme poverty. EWB's Development Digest is a good place to start
http://my.ewb.ca/mailing/ListInfo/71 (P.S. - You can also sign up to this list to receive mail from it every week.)
3) Buy a cup of fair trade coffee today, vocally. Let others hear you ask about coffee for which farmers get a fair price! Many local coffee shops carry fair trade, and Starbucks and Timothy's both have a policy of brewing it if you ask for it -- so ask away.
Together, we can play our part to end extreme poverty!
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