RESULTS Blog  Follow us via RSS and Twitter!Keep up with RESULTS’ poverty fighting actions around the world! Subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. Learn more. If you are using the Goole Chrome web browser make sure you follow our RSS with Google Reader! At any given moment, RESULTS staff and activists around the world are busy working with their elected officials, local media, or working within their communities to realize a world without poverty. Hear their stories here!August 2011 RESULTS Domestic National Conference Call: Use the August Recess to Meet with CongressBy Meredith Dodson, Director of U.S. Poverty Campaigns The RESULTS August 2011 RESULTS Domestic national conference call with some reflections on the budget deal from RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter. Guest speaker Melissa Boteach of Half in Ten: The Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years then gave an overview of the debt ceiling deal and reviewed the great resources they've compiled, including their Road to Shared Prosperity storymap. We also heard from South Central Pennsylvania RESULTS volunteer Bruce Kessler about his recent opinion piece on how Head Start and other early childhood programs break the cycle of poverty in the Chambersburg Public Opinion, reviewed key parts of the RESULTS website, and briefly discussed how to broaden your advocacy through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Read More. Keywords: Budget, Head Start, Child Care, Half in Ten, Howard Zinn0 Comments Where Children SleepBy Crickett Nicovich, Outreach and Advocacy Associate The diversity is great and the disparities are vast in the photographer James Mollison's book "Where Children Sleep". Mollison has put together a touching portrayal of life in different cultures and circumstances in stunning photos of children and their bedrooms. Take a look! Read More. Keywords: Where Children Sleep, Photographs, Disparity, 0 Comments Five Thoughts on the Famine in the Horn of AfricaBy John Fawcett, Global Legislative Director The mission of RESULTS is to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. The images we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks from the famine in the Horn of Africa are a sobering reminder of what the “worst aspects” can look like. Here are a few things we’re thinking about this crisis, how it intersects with our advocacy efforts, and how you can help. Read More. Keywords: 3 Comments Chehera: The Human Face of TBBy Ashton Wingate It would be simpler to deal with tuberculosis if it just attacked the lungs and bodies of its victims, but TB takes an even heavier toll on the heart and mind of those who contract it. In India, the stigma and isolation are symptoms just as painful as the coughing and emaciation. The emotional toll of the disease is rarely conveyed to those who don’t experience it personally. Last year, on World TB Day, ACTION Partner Global Health Advocates India worked with the Art for Change Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industries to bring 22 artists into firsthand experience with the human toll of TB and paint what they saw. The resulting ‘Chehera: The Human Face of TB’ Exhibition takes viewers on a emotional whirlwind through the horrors and hopes of life with TB. Read More. Keywords: Tuberculosis, Art, India, World TB Day0 Comments |