Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Help stop the vulture funds!
Commercial companies called 'vulture funds' are making rich pickings from desperately poor countries by buying up bad debt. One of them has been suing Zambia for a staggering $55 million off the back of $3.3 million of ‘bad’ debt! Take Oxfam's online action to stop vulture funds preying on poor countries. stop'>http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/campaign/he/actions/vulture_donegal.htm">stop
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Transform society in God's name
Christians allowed Marx to steal from them the flag of justice. Well. we're stealing it back.
Trees: “In the wet season trees and roots act as a huge sponge, slowing the release of water into rivers and lagoons. When trees are removed, less rainfall is absorbed into the land and the rapid runoff of water down hillsides has swept houses away further downstream and intensified tha impact of tropical storms. This erodes the topsoil and without the veil of forest, the sun’s rays bake the soil during the dry season. Desert is just a few fatal steps away.” Also: an entire way of life is being lost: berries for washing clothes, leaves for healing cuts, grasses and plants for relieving snake bite, fevers and AIDS symptoms. Also: trees store carbon and breathe out oxygen; “burning them adds greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere, while the methane released by grazing cattle is another big contributor to climate change.” So why is it done: “to create pasture for cattle destined for the vast girth of the US fast-food market.” The cost of a hamburger. (Quotes taken from Jon Stanhope, tear times, Spring 2007) http://www.tearfund.org/
Pitt to Wilberforce: “Are you going to use your great voice to worship God in private or to transform society in God’s name?”
Trees: “In the wet season trees and roots act as a huge sponge, slowing the release of water into rivers and lagoons. When trees are removed, less rainfall is absorbed into the land and the rapid runoff of water down hillsides has swept houses away further downstream and intensified tha impact of tropical storms. This erodes the topsoil and without the veil of forest, the sun’s rays bake the soil during the dry season. Desert is just a few fatal steps away.” Also: an entire way of life is being lost: berries for washing clothes, leaves for healing cuts, grasses and plants for relieving snake bite, fevers and AIDS symptoms. Also: trees store carbon and breathe out oxygen; “burning them adds greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere, while the methane released by grazing cattle is another big contributor to climate change.” So why is it done: “to create pasture for cattle destined for the vast girth of the US fast-food market.” The cost of a hamburger. (Quotes taken from Jon Stanhope, tear times, Spring 2007) http://www.tearfund.org/
Pitt to Wilberforce: “Are you going to use your great voice to worship God in private or to transform society in God’s name?”
How can I transform society in God's name?
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