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culture shocker: Your chocolate may have been made by child slaves
photo courtesy of change.org I love chocolate. However, after reading this article today on Change.org I am going to try and make a conscious effort to buy only Fair Trade Certified cocoa products....
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our daily chirp: @womenadvocates-Children selling bodies for food
photo courtesy of IRIN africa Read this devastating post by our friend Women Advocates: http://bit.ly/CuNLh Children as young as 10 are selling their bodies and having babies in Côte d’Ivoire’s...
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b-days: Happy Birthday Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female...
Photo courtesy www.wikipedia.org Born: October 29, 1938 Claim to fame: A member of the Council of Women World Leaders, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is a symbol of empowerment and strength for women...
View Articleb-activists: Martin Sheen tells us that poverty is not an accident- Watch The...
Along with being a renowned actor in film and television (I’m sure there are some West Wing buffs reading this), Martin Sheen has become known for his activism, be it anti-war efforts, his support of...
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b-activists: How to teach kids about HIV/AIDS? Say “u+me=we”
photo courtesy of www.ac-af.com Did you know that approximately half of all new global HIV infections in the world today are occurring in people between the ages of 15 and 25? This is why the folks at...
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b-activists: Go to Africa with Alicia Keys to keep a child alive
photo courtesy of selphkontaindsounds.digitalbrovas.com We think World AIDS Day should not simply be one single day, but should be on our minds every single day. Like many other causes we try to...
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b-the change: Sing into your webcam and Starbucks will donate to fight AIDS...
photo courtesy of starbucksloveproject.com On December 7th, people from across the world U.S., Sweden, Cypros, Lesotho, and more taped “All You Need is Love,” together to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in...
View Articlebecause we found it: Director of HBO’s “The Lazarus Effect” on resurrections...
Original post on Causecast Guest Post by Lance Bangs, director of The Lazarus Effect, premiering tonight on HBO. In July 2007, I’d seen a Vanity Fair article about HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa, and was...
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b-activists: Subversive artist JR uplifts stories of despair by putting them...
An elusive French artist known to the world as “JR” has come to be synonymous with larger than life street art that makes bold statements about freedom and identity in cities around the world. His...
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KONY 2012: Why it’s time to put the “rescue” story to bed
From Breakthrough president and CEO Mallika Dutt: Photo credit: Youtube Jason Russell and Invisible Children know that a powerful story can change the world. But by characterizing essentially all...
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