“It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.”
- Bono, rock star and anti-poverty activist. (Source: The American Prospect blog
September 25, 2008
Categories: God, Life and Culture, just random, politics, quotes . Tags: bono, children, diseases, G8, poverty, preventable, united states, wall street . Author: jeff greer . Comments: 3 Comments
My friend Eugene Cho just posted on his blog about the idea of a Christian president and whether its significant or not for our president to be a Christian. it is a good blog and i will link it here, for you to check out… as he also references another blog article which is a [...]
September 10, 2008
Categories: God, Life and Culture, just random, living, politics, random thoughts . Tags: Add new tag, agenda, candidate, christian, issues, party, political, politics, president, values . Author: jeff greer . Comments: 6 Comments
I wanted to post about another event coming up near the end of September. There will be a screening for the independent film “War Dance“, which is about the war torn children of Northern Uganda. You can check out the preview of the film at: http://www.wardancethemovie.com.
The screening will also be a fundraiser for Resolve Uganda , [...]
September 9, 2008
Categories: God, Life and Culture, Seattle, justice, living, movies, music, the arts . Tags: Acholi, Africa, children, fundraiser, invisible, Joseph Kony, LRA, music, Northern Uganda, Q cafe, resolve, Seattle, tribe, uganda, war dance . Author: jeff greer . Comments: Leave a Comment
check out this video of some people from an organization called ‘one voice to end slavery’. they started this thing called ‘the freeze project’, where a couple hundred people will simultaneously stand completely still in place for 5 minutes… all to raise awareness of the staggering numbers of humans trapped in the sex slave trade [...]
September 3, 2008
Categories: Seattle, fun stuff, justice, living, mission, outdoors, the arts . Tags: activism, awareness, freeze, human trafficking, one voice to end slavery, project, sex trafficking, slave, trade . Author: jeff greer . Comments: 2 Comments