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Live 8 – Make Poverty History

I am watching CFCF’s staggering coverage of the Live 8 concert. This is not a political Blog. This is personal.
I went to the Make Poverty History website and signed the letters. They’re not asking for money. They’re asking for your name.
This is the email I got back. Please take action now. Let’s end this now.
“Dear Friend,
Today, I became part of an unprecedented global call to action to end poverty: Make Poverty History
Right now, there is active campaigning in over 50 countries around the three core demands: More and Better Aid, Make Trade Fair, and Cancel the Debt. In Canada, we’re also campaigning to End Child Poverty in Canada.
You’ve just got to be a part of this campaign.
Go to http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca and sign on to the campaign yourself.
There is no time to lose. It doesn’t matter who or where you are, your voice is critical to the success of this campaign. This is a rare chance to join me and thousands of others across the planet to once and for all make poverty history.
What are you waiting for? Join me and click in!
What you can do right now:
Sign on to the campaign
– Tell Paul Martin to commit to a timeline for 0.7%
– Click others into action – forward this message to your networks
‘If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. Politicians will have to listen.’ – Archbishop Desmond Tutu.”
They’re making it very easy to do something WOW and remarkable with one simple action.
Make Poverty History today.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.