Can the world eliminate poverty?
Good words, little action, won't solve crisis, experts note

UNITED NATIONS (IPS)�The global campaign to eradicate poverty is being derailed by rising debt burdens, declining development aid, volatile commodity markets and proliferation of military conflicts.

A day for family and commitment to action

Between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, the scene Oct. 16 looked like a massive family reunion�blankets were spread out, folding chairs set-up, umbrellas unfolded and coolers open. However the predominantly Black, but ethnically diverse crowd, had come not for a single family reunion but as participants in the Million Family March.

Organize and Mobilize
by Minister Louis Farrakhan

I recognize that it�s dangerous for me to be a voice that unites the poor. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered on his way to Washington with a Poor Peoples March because the poor are the majority. And it is on the backs of the poor that the rich and the government build their army, navy and their economic power base. Anybody who can electrify the poor, as it was in the Roman Empire with Jesus, becomes a threat to the powers that be.

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