Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama [HD] AND MORE…follow the link by Dalai Lama (videos) Time magazine’s interview of His Holiness in New York City for its “Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama” originally published in June 2010. Transcript is available in the Notes sections and many more videos also available Share this:

VIA JOHN DUNN Have Your Say « Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare www.sustainingchildwelfare.ca The Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare has a three-year mandate to develop and implement solutions to promote the sustainability of child welfare in Ontario. Add your say today! Share this:

Queen`s Park, Toronto, Civil Liberties Rally July 10th  following the G20-2010 THE ROOT.ca Police Brutality or Civilian Stupidity? BY JEFF WINBUSH The video of the Seattle cop punching a woman over a jaywalking incident has gone viral, but he did what he had to do. READ VIDEO: Cop Punches 17-Year-Old Girl in the Face Slave [...]

The Unheard Voices by Paul Fitzgerald member of the People`s Blueprint panel for Social Assistance Review in Ontario Sometimes I feel am so invisible that no one sees me or even hears my voice when I speak. Or perhaps they do hear me, and they don’t realize where my voice is coming from. I am [...]

Toronto Mayor David Miller says he received the shortest briefing he’s ever had about a federal budget since he’s been mayor. Mayor Miller spoke to reporters Thursday afternoon shortly after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveiled the latest budget in Ottawa. Flaherty said a combination of government spending restraint and economic growth would erase the deficit [...]

Comment in Toronto Star on Miller’s reaction to the budget. Follow the link to read the full story and other “ignorant” (lacking knowledge) comments. “You really need to take some higher education beyond grade 10. Then maybe, you can get a real job and stop feeling sorry for yourself living in poverty, clinging to the [...]

25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction March 3: Special Diet Program in Peril: Take Action Now! Quote of the Week: “In breaking the cycle of poverty, you have to treat people with dignity.” Who said it? New Brunswick’s Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock, on announcing the implementation of changes to that province’s social assistance [...]

Support your cause! Be counted: I Read This The Four Host First Nations hope a new video will inspire a whole generation of youth The images that flood the mass media typically depict Canada’s native population as being the victims of housing or health-care crises and show them struggling with poverty or hidden behind masks [...]

PeacockPoverty has shared a video with you on YouTube: click on  picture to view Tracy Chapman – Mountains O’ Things [1988] Tracy Chapman performs “Mountains O’ Things at the Bridge Benefit Concert, Oakland, December 04, 1988 Share this:

Poverty From Those Who Know Carol Goar 2007 They’d battled drug addiction, cancer, racism, sexual abuse and mental illness, but they all agreed one foe was harder to beat than any of them: poverty. Once a person loses everything – home, job, income, possessions and dignity – the will to fight wanes. Obstacles become insurmountable. [...]