STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY

Last year, 23.5 million people stood up against poverty and set a new Guinness World Record. They stood up to remind their governments to keep their promises. The promises they made seven years ago with the Millennium Development Goals.

The promise to end poverty inequality and hunger. The promise to stop children dying from preventable diseases. The promise to ensure basic education for all children, particularly girls. The promise to stop women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. The promise to provide water and sanitation and to protect the environment. The promise to provide more and better aid, fair trade and debt cancellation. The promise to achieve these goals by 2015. The promises that some of them have not kept.

Stand Up and Speak Out is the growing movement of people no longer prepared to stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and inequality. On October 16th and 17th, Stand Up and Speak Out for the Millennium Development Goals. Help us break the world record. So we can break the record of broken promises.

http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/

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[onlym314]

wow now we stand up and were not broke no more yay.... not, its going to take more than standing up people lol its called wake up... people that are rich came up with this bs slogan so you think your doing something, to tell the truth i do more for a cup of water i stand up and walk. their slogan should say fight we do it anyway.....

[nessquik95]

5 people from my year 10 get to go to the city in Sydney and stand still in a pose for 3 mins... there were 8 that volunteered so i hope he chooses me to go with my friend :)

[zenshinify]

This rally is a stupid idea. It's like saying that if enough people get together and declare poverty illegal it will simply go away.  Unfortunately, people are their own worst enemies, and if you distributed all the wealth in the world evenly, most people would quickly fall behind again. It's just how the world is built: few hard workers, lots of complainers, few sharks, lots of fish, etc. Killing the sharks would kill civilization. Anyone can grow food, but only leaders can build empires.

[TheVioletFever]

portugal

[jheiphany]

wow... heheh. Filipino?

[TheVioletFever]

I participated on this at my school today...it was cool...seeing almost all school standing up against something that actually mattered

[techieatwork]

Unfortunately another BIG problem is OVER population, where only fittest rule. Families should have MAX 2 kids, gradually the number of people within 800 year period should go back to a sustainable approx half a billion in this planet Earth. For now, any campaigns are good intentioned but non productive. We ALL need to take conscience. We ALL have to sacrifice our own personal so called "freedom" and stop the stupidity proclaimed by most religions with their insane "go forth and multiply".

[littleangelbenice1]

this is a sad vid hopefully this will end now.

[SeventhSun]

Standing up against corruption is more meaningful actually compared to poverty, though both causes are equally humorous from the start to the finish.

[SeventhSun]

Okay, let me stand up (next to my monitor as I type this) and post a shoutout:

"I WANT TO BE RICH!!"

"I DON'T WANT TO BE POOR!!!"

"POVERTY SUCKS!!!"

"BEING POOR AIN'T COOL!!!!!"

"I WANT TO BE A RICH MAN'S SON FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!!"

There, I, your God, has spoken.