Fri 10 Aug 2007
Corvallis: City of ONE
Posted by Chester Bateman under ONE Campaign
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Great news! My home town of Corvallis Oregon has declared itself a “City of ONE” in the ONE Campaign, ONE.org. ONE Campaign is an effort by Americans to rally Americans – one by one – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.
Check out YouTube and watch the official proclamation process at Corvallis’ city council meeting. Thanks to many of you in helping Oregon be a part of an important campaign. It’s great to see our blog posting at ONE.org!
Let’s keep up the great work!
Levi and me with Corvallis’ Mayor Tomlinson after signature of City of ONE proclamation
“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
