Make Extreme Wealth History

“Make Extreme Wealth History” at BeyondTV Festival

Peter Gerard — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:29:53 +0000

The Make Extreme Wealth History video has been invited to screen at the BeyondTV Festival in Swansea, Wales on Saturday 22 November. Check out the festival’s trailer, which features my video three times!

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Peter Gerard — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:39:50 +0000

This Thursday, the members of the UN will be gathering in New York to discuss the Millennium Development Goals. The UN ambitiously hopes to end poverty by 2015. This week’s summit marks the halfway point and an opportunity to evaluate their progress. In the last few years, celebrities have joined the campaign to raise awareness about [...]

Care’s “Living on the Edge” campaign proposes poverty prevention rather than emergency response

Peter Gerard — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:02:15 +0000

Care International is campaigning for significant changes to the way the international aid community tries to tackle poverty. The world’s poorest are paying a high price for the international aid system’s failure to address factors keeping them in chronic poverty. With food price rises adding to the problem many people just don’t have enough to eat. Most [...]

Help two Nigerians pay their legal fees

Peter Gerard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:43:32 +0000

On August 31st, Andrew Berends was arrested in Port Harcourt, Nigeria with his translator Samuel George, while shooting his documentary film Delta Boys. Later, the Nigerian police arrested Andrew’s friend, Joe Bussio, for no other reason than Joe had given Andrew a place to stay. Andrew has since been sent back to the States by the [...]

Listen to the Women: The UN Weighs Its Millennium Development Goals

Peter Gerard — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:13:33 +0000

Barbara Crossette writes in The Nation: As the UN meets to assess its ambitious plan to heal a suffering world, the voices of billions of women who still lack fundamental rights must be heard. Read on

Vogue India makes a mockery of the widening gap between rich and poor

Peter Gerard — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:11:20 +0000

The Indian edition of Vogue Magazine recently published a series of photos using impoverished villagers as models for expensive luxury goods. Almost 500 million people in India live on less than $1.25 per day. Still, India’s fast-growing economy is becoming a huge marketplace for luxury goods. Vogue’s campaign highlights the unsettling wealth gap in an [...]