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Agreeing to Aid

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Stories about organizations or people agreeing on a plan to help others out

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review by Laur32. July 27, 2010

posted in Search for Common Ground Community

Giving Back to the Roots

I read an article today about a Harlem Church working with an Ethiopian coffee growers. According to the NY Times, "the Abyssinian Fund, the only nongovernmental organization in Ethiopia formed by an African-American church, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. The Fund plans to pay for specialized training and equipment to help the co-op’s farmers produce a higher-quality product so they can be more competitive on the international coffee market. Once their income has increased, … more

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review by Laur32. July 27, 2010

posted in Search for Common Ground Community

African Union Pledges to Reinforce Somalia Force

BBC Article: At a summit in Uganda, they approved a request to send 2,000 more troops to the Somali capital Mogadishu. Rules of engagement are to be changed to allow the troops to fire first if they are facing imminent attack. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had wanted a tougher mandate to "eliminate" the al-Qaeda linked group that allowed forces to go on the offensive. He told the BBC that AU peacekeepers were "confused" by the current mandate. "They … more

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review by Laur32. July 27, 2010

posted in Search for Common Ground Community

NIKE "rights" its' ways, however small..

TIME Article: It's no secret that the global economy hasn't exactly been a boon to the labor movement. But globalization can be cruelest to the Third World employees it was supposed to raise out of poverty. As developing countries compete for investment from large foreign corporations, they all too often push workers' wages, benefits and rights so low that many of them ought to be called sweatshop nations today instead of banana republics. Case in point: In January … more

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