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NEW
COUSMA Communiqué #0.005
NOTICE: WBF will be turned into Common Good Global Party.
The World Without Borders is our raison d'être.
The planet and the world's left behind, need your help.
Thanks on behalf of the world's left behind and of the future's inhabitants.
***INVITATION***
The planet, your children, and grand children will thank you.
 
 
 
 

THE FACE OF POVERTY

"1.2 billion people on this planet live in extreme poverty. That is 1.2 billion faces with smiles, tears, hopes, aspirations."

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems. Kailash Satyarthi

"Poverty shouldn't be a life sentence."

"Chilhood after all is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child." Anthony Horowitz

"We must talk about POVERTY because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it." Dorothy Day

"WEALTH ATTRACTS FRIENDS, POVERTY SELECTS THEM."

"Poverty is not a fate, it is a condition; it is not a misfortune, it is an injustice." Father Gustavo Gutierrez

"Poverty is the worst form of violence." Mahatma Gandhi

"Poverty is not being without money but being without hope."

"If the poor start reasoning everything is lost." Voltaire (1694-1778)

"As long as poverty, injustice, and gross inequality exist in the world, none of us can truly rest." Nelson Mandela

"The most serious handicap in a human being is indiference at poverty."

"When the Lord blesses a person with wealth, he makes that person administrator of those riches for common good and for the good of all, not for his own good." Pope Fancis

"Women are more likely to be living below the poverty line than men across all racial and ethnic groups."

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." Nelson Mandela

"The only war I support is the war on poverty."

"Every three seconds a child dies from extreme poverty."

"Human rights are violated not only by terrorism, repression, murder... but also by the existence of extreme poverty conditions and unjust economical structures that give birth to great inequalities." Pope Francis

"Sometimes I want to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world when he could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question."

"The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."

"It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty."

Rising from poverty is harder than winning the lottery; and poverty is hereditary.

"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." Nelson Mandela

"Peace is not only the absence of war; as long as there is poverty, racism, discrimination and exclusion we will hardly be able to reach a world of peace." Rigoberta Menchú

"It's a terrible thing, isn't it? The way we throw people away?." Kate Morton

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." James Baldwin

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society ─how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation, and despair.

"While poverty persists there is no true freedom." Nelson Mandela

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."

"Our projects are aiming to finding worlwide solutions to poverty. Please help us if you want future generations to live in a poverty free world."

"if poverty is against God's will, fighting against poverty is a way to say YES to God's kingdom." Father Gustavo Gutiérrez

"We have to be bold in our... ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade... Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"Today, continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously." Lester B. Pearson

"We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table..." Sen. Bernie Sanders

"...in this new century millions of people...remain imprisoned, enslaved, and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free." <Nelson Mandela

God did not mean the world with such detestable inequalty. It was us, men, who messed it up.

"Poverty is not created by poor people. It is a product of the system that we have created, thus we have to change the models and rigid concepts of our society." Muhammad Yunus

"Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humnanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up." Nelson Mandela

Raise your hand if you agree with this:

Barefoot mom with 5 barefoot children, sitting on side walk Three very young children working as brick makers Old man picking food from garbage Old woman sitting in front of her shanty made of pieces of cloth Father with 3 chldren eating food on the street in a very impoverished setting Old man hugging his dog and a sign that reads: ‘Wealth attracts friends, poverty selects them’ A boy and a dog sleeping on the street A boy and a dog sleeping on the street while people are passing by Young girl hugging her baby, while begging on the street Chart of poverty in different European nations and a sign that reads: ‘A quarter of British children are in poverty’ 4 people sleeping on the street Child bathing with a bucket of water, another child watching, and mom watching while preparing food 2 very young girls and an adult picking stuff from garbage Mom sitting on the street while her 2 daughters sleep, one on her lap, the other by their side 2 people sleeping on street 3 kids in rubbish dump eating something they apparently found in the garbage Mother with her 9 children in a very poor room Muslim lady, 2 kids and a man searching for stuff in garbage Flying pigeon carrying pink rose and the sun at the background 5 kids around bowl containing food that they are eating Chart of different countries’ names with figures in dollars and a sign that reads: ‘Health spending per person per year’ Young girl washing dishes outside shanty and smoke coming from fire that has pot on top Girl sitting on street begging while holding sign that reads: ‘Homeless & hungry God bless you’ Young boy walking by a slum full of garbage, carrying a clay pot Couple and baby sitting on rubbish dump while eating food 8 kids collecting water from very dirty pond Very weak and thin boy touching the ground with his forefront while a vulture is by his side waiting Young man one leg missing, begging on street with a sign by his side that reads: ‘Lost my leg for my country. Please help, you will be blessed’ Man sleeping on street while pigeons are around him 16 birds flying in V formation People standing at their shanties' doors in a slum People waiting in line to receive hot food 3 young girls standing by their shanty Young mother with her 2 children holding 2 signs: ‘Homeless. God bless you’ , ‘Homeless please help' 3 kids holding sign ‘Please help’ 3 kids eating rice with their hands, all from the same plate 2 kids searching in garbage dump, smiling while looking at the camera Family made up of 7 people standing in front of their shanty Young lady holding sign: ‘No one should have to live in poverty! surely it can be addressed’

AMIGOS DEL UNIVERSO

(Arturo Benavides)

FRIENDS FROM THE UNIVERSE

(Arturo Benavides)

Give with your love hope to the Sun,
tell it men are going to unite.
Give with your love hope to the Sun,
tell the Universe “I am your friend.”

In a far away planet from a bizarre solar system
lives a strange creature that calls himself …
homo-Sapiens.

He is born, he yells, cries, sleeps, plays, tries… and learns.
When he grows they call him…
man.
The man gets angry, unangry, he behaves, repents,
some others betray, bribe, corrupt, prostitute, sell;
and the most powerful ones play war,
where man dies.
To those that don’t think like that, to the friends of the Universe
they call them madmen, fanatics, alienated, liars;
and they persecute them, torture them, crucify them, burn them, shoot them.

Give with your love hope to the Sun,
tell the Universe “I am your friend.”

You may think this is the product of my imagination …
It is not so.
Man is an extraordinary being:
he wanted to walk… and he learned to run
he wanted to fly… and he comes jumping from planet to planet,
in pursue of his ambition.
What can we do?
Chain him? Enslave him? Paralize him?
Brainwash him? Or kill him?

No, that’s what is being done since ever,
hence he has become small, hence his bad luck.
To change man, there’s a way so simple
that seems complicated:
we have to admire him,
in spite of all contradictions,
we have to admire him,
in spite of all the efforts that he may do for not deserving it,
friends from the Universe,
we have to admire him.

Give with your love hope to the Sun,
tell the Universe “I am your friend.”
Give with your love hope to the Sun,
tell it men are going to unite.
Give with your love hope to the Sun…

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