November 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
Greetings all Barack Obama Supporters,
Regardless of religious faith or beliefs; both young and old; black, white, Hispanic, Asian, etc., whether Democrat, Republican, or Independent; Poor, Working Class, Middle Class, Upper Class, or Filthy Rich; including both the Blue States and Red States, and everybody else in between, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 is the day.
The day we decide if Barack Obama will become our next president. While the polls may suggest that victory is near, we can’t give up and think it’ll be easy. As we know, anything is possible and anything can happen at the last minute.
Therefore, let’s dedicate a World Wide Day of Prayer on the morning of November 4, 2008 for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, our country, and the American people. God knows Obama will need it on Tuesday and will definitely need it moving forward with bringing about change to our country.
Regardless of your faith or non-faith, pray or meditate that Barack Obama gets elected our President. Pray once or pray throughout the day. The power of prayer and unity is bigger than any negativity that any opponent could bring. Most importantly, let’s pray for Barack Obama’s safety as we know that there are people who don’t particularly like him, and in fact, hate him. Let’s pray that God’s power of protection is always on him.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you haven’t done so already please GO OUT & VOTE. Regardless of how long the lines are and how discouraging it may be, VOTE and make sure your VOTE gets counted. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t vote and certainly don’t believe any of the bogus lies that are out there to keep us from voting. Let’s also be accountable not only for ourselves but for our friends, families, and colleagues by making sure they have all voted.
Here are some things that we could pray for, but also add your own special prayer requests:
1. Pray for change in the U.S. and that Barack Obama and Joe Biden is the catalyst of change that we so desperately need.
2. Pray for a change of hearts and minds for those that oppose Obama’s presidency and that we can all come together for change.
3. Pray that God leads the country and our economy in a new direction.
4. Pray that we have a new administration that cares about the well being of our country and the world and that greed, deception, and lies no longer have a place in the White House and in the new administration.
5. My own little prayer request: pray that George Bush asks for forgiveness of the sorrow and damage his policies and administration as caused our wonderful country.
Keep this powerful message of change going and forward it on to all of your friends and listserve.
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Tags: Barack-Obama, Barack-Obama-for-President, Day-of-Prayer-for-Obama, Election-2008
October 10th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
In an effort to address the issues of deforestation in Haiti, which also contributes to climate change, global warming, and the destruction caused by the recent hurricanes, Lambi Fund of Haiti and the Green Belt Movement is partnering to plant 1 million trees over three years.
MIAMI, FL, October 10, 2008 – Haiti’s pressing issue of reforestation has only been magnified by the recent hurricanes and the destruction it has caused on the island nation. With less than one percent of its forests remaining, the environmentally degraded island particularly experiences extreme devastation during storms as a consequent of soil erosion and deforestation. Since trees serve as natural barriers and help mitigate floods, the country’s bare land makes it highly susceptible to severe flooding as evidenced by the recent hurricanes. As part of its “After the Storms” emergency fund, Lambi Fund of Haiti will reinforce tree planting projects and escalate reforestation in Haiti through its partnership with the Green Belt Movement founded by Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai.
The reforestation project between Lambi Fund of Haiti and the Green Belt Movement is dedicated to planting over one million trees in Haiti over the next three years. Although The Lambi Fund always includes a reforestation component with every sustainable agriculture and development project it supports, the non-profit will intensify its reforestation projects in two levels. Small reforestation projects will plant 10,000 to 60,000 trees in rural communities and are part of a sub-set of a larger sustainable development project. Alternatively, larger environmental projects will plant 100,000 trees or more in larger communities. Since 71 percent of the energy used in Haiti comes from charcoal and the residents are left to chop down 10 to 20 million trees each year just to make and sell charcoal for food and other uses, the reforestation effort will also incorporate an educational component that teaches sustainable agriculture and techniques to reduce soil erosion.
While natural disasters cannot be avoided, the severe devastation caused by it can surely be mitigated. Reforestation is an important element in damage prevention and also has positive implications for Haiti’s agricultural sector and its role in addressing the country’s food security. Haiti needs emergency financial support as much as it needs support for its rebuilding efforts so that the farms, grain mills, and other peasant led projects are operating again expeditiously. Lambi Fund of Haiti is dedicated to re-building community sustainability and is seeking donations and funding for its projects. To support the sustainable development efforts of Lambi Fund of Haiti, please visit LambiFund.org and make an online donation or mail a check to Lambi Fund of Haiti, PO Box 18955, Washington, DC 20036.
About Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund of Haiti supports and invests in grassroots efforts focusing on sustainable development, environmental integrity, and social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people. Their programs include community micro-credit, animal husbandry, reforestation efforts, and organizational and leadership training.
Contact:
Fabiola Fleuranvil of Blueprint Creative Group
for Lambi Fund of Haiti
(404) 437-0078
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
Posted in: Lambi Fund of Haiti
Tags: Haiti-disaster, Haiti-Food-Crisis, Haiti-food-security, Haiti-hurricane-relief, Haiti-hurricanes, Haiti-poverty, Hurricane-Ike, Lambi Fund of Haiti
October 8th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
Lambi Fund’s “After the Storms” emergency fund will invest in and support rebuilding efforts that addresses food security, sustainable agriculture, reforestation, and community investments.
MIAMI, FL, October 8, 2008 – Haiti’s recent hurricanes killed over 500 people, destroyed thousands of homes, and displaced a reported one million Haitians. Perhaps, more crippling to the local Haitian economy, the recent hurricanes also destroyed hundreds of peasant led projects supported by the Lambi Fund of Haiti, which provided food and income to thousands of families. Meanwhile, many of the Lambi Fund’s partner organizations also lost crops and livestock, including goats, pigs, sheep, chickens, and cows- all of which were a part of the non-profit organization’s sustainable agriculture, animal husbandry, and sustainable development programs that focused on self-sufficiency and economic empowerment of the Haitian people. The island nation also suffered contamination of its water supply and experienced significant tree damage. Consequently, in an effort to fund and support the rebuilding of peasant-led sustainable development projects destroyed by the hurricanes, the Lambi Fund of Haiti has launched the “After the Storms” emergency fund and will focus on helping the people of Haiti become self-sustaining as soon as possible.
In keeping with the Lambi Fund’s bottom up approach to development, the disaster relief and reconstruction model adheres to basic principles that rely on relief and reconstruction operations conducted within the context of sustainable development and self-sufficiency of the Haitian people. Through the “After the Storms” emergency fund, Lambi Fund of Haiti will aggressively support programs based on these basic principles. The non-profit’s community microcredit program will help members of peasant organizations buy food and other necessary items (not as a loan) vital to their rebuilding. Lambi Fund will recapitalize microenterprise funds run by peasant organizations so that its members can secure microenterprise loans to replenish and continue their small businesses. The non-profit will also purchase seeds and tools for the farming organizations whose crops were destroyed as well as purchase pigs, goats, and chickens for quick recapitalization of the livestock that was washed away from the storms. Furthermore, Lambi Fund will continue its reforestation project in partnership with the Green Belt Movement founded by Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, and continue planting trees as part of its one million trees goal. Ultimately, by rebuilding the local agricultural economy and addressing the root causes that leads to significant devastation by storms, Lambi Fund of Haiti looks forward to supporting Haiti’s efforts towards food security and helping its partner organizations, families, and Haitian communities become self-sustainable.
Lambi Fund of Haiti is seeking donations and funding from organizations that provide emergency and disaster relief funding to assist rural partners as they rebuild their lives and re-engage in activities that will sustain their families and their communities. To support the sustainable development efforts of Lambi Fund of Haiti, please visit LambiFund.org and make an online donation or mail a check to Lambi Fund of Haiti, PO Box 18955, Washington, DC 20036.
About Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund of Haiti supports and invests in grassroots efforts focusing on sustainable development, environmental integrity, and social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people. Their programs include community micro-credit, animal husbandry, reforestation efforts, and organizational and leadership training.
Contact:
Fabiola Fleuranvil of Blueprint Creative Group
for Lambi Fund of Haiti
(404) 437-0078
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
Posted in: Lambi Fund of Haiti
Tags: Haiti-disaster, Haiti-Food-Crisis, Haiti-food-security, Haiti-hurricane-relief, Haiti-hurricanes, Haiti-poverty, Hurricane-Ike, Lambi Fund of Haiti, Sustainable-Development
October 6th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
TALLAHASSEE, FL, October 6, 2008– Selected by the Tom Joyner Foundation School of the Month for January 2008, Florida A&M University (FAMU) embarked upon an aggressive $1.5 million fundraising campaign targeted at enhancing the university’s fundraising initiatives, recruitment and enrollment efforts, alumni involvement, and ultimately, to sustain and preserve the university’s legacy. As a collective body, FAMU president Dr. Ammons appealed to and challenged the alumni community, corporations, individuals, and all other interested parties to take part in its monumental fundraising campaign by making a monetary contribution. Likewise, the Florida A&M University National Alumni Association (FAMUNAA) also challenged its local and regional alumni chapters and the entire alumni community of more than 60,000 to also participate and donate monetarily to the fundraising campaign. FAMU’s alumni and constituents answered the call and contributed to the fundraising campaign. However, although setting a fundraising record for the Tom Joyner Foundation School of the Month campaign, the university fell short of its $1.5 million goal.
As the year draws to an end, FAMUNAA president, Dr. Alvin Bryant, calls upon its alumni community to donate to the FAMUNAA and the university to help reach and exceed the $1.5 million fundraising goal. Thus far, the Northeast region of the FAMUNAA has exceeded its chapter’s goal of contributing $100,000 towards the university’s $1.5 million fundraising goal. Likewise, a generous contribution of $15,000 by Broward County, FL resident and FAMU alumni, Lt. Pearl Ferguson, has pushed the Florida region further along the path towards pursuing its regional goal of $300,000 but is still in need of alumni contributions to help meet and exceed the $300,000 mark. The Southern Region also continues to pursue contributions towards its regional goal of $100,000, while both the Midwest and Farwest regions calls upon its alumni members to contribute towards its $50,000 goal, respectively.
With state and federal budget cuts and a weakened economy, the university desperately relies upon donations from the alumni community just as much as it does from corporate partners and other interested parties. Every contribution counts and will require the participation of every single FAMU alumni. Consequently, FAMUNAA President, Dr. Alvin Bryant, and the entire FAMUNAA Executive Board and chapter officers makes an appeal to the entire alumni community to help it reach and exceed its $600,000 fundraising goal.
To make a contribution towards the FAMUNAA $600,000 fundraising goal and/or the university’s overall goal of $1.5 million, please contact your local chapter president or Dr. Willie Bryant, Vice-President of the FAMUNAA Northeast Region, at goldwillie@aol.com. Contact information for chapter officers can be found online by visiting the FAMUNAA website at www.FAMUNAA.com.
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Seabon Dixon, Florida Regional VP
SD40733@aol.com
Rita Braswell, Southern Regional
VPaka21ba87@yahoo.com
Dr. Willie L. Bryant, Northeast Regional VP
goldwillie@aol.com
Yao Dinizulu, Midwest Regional VP
dinizulu@hmdattorneys.com
Gerald Merriweather, Farwest Regional VP
geraldmerriweather@hotmail.com
Contact:
Fabiola Fleuranvil
National Director of Public Relations,
Florida A&M University National Alumni Association
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
Posted in: FAMU National Alumni Association
Tags: FAMU, FAMU National Alumni Association, FAMU-Rattlers, Florida-A&M-University-National-Alumni-Association, HBCU
October 6th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
Back-to-back storms destroy Haiti’s crops, intensify its food crisis, and reveal a greater need for long-term investments in Haiti’s agricultural sector as a solution towards food security.
MIAMI, FL, October 6, 2008 – Back-to-back storms ravaged through Haiti, destroyed its agricultural sector, and set the country ten steps backwards in its effort towards achieving food security. A country slowly overcoming April’s food riots is now left to battle famine, extreme malnutrition, and homelessness. For over ten years, the Lambi Fund of Haiti has worked tirelessly to support and invest in grassroots efforts focusing on sustainable development, environmental integrity, and economic empowerment of the Haitian people only to have some of these efforts washed away in the past month’s tumultuous storms. Irrigation canals have been destroyed and crops swept away, but Lambi Fund of Haiti vows to help Haiti rebuild.
In the aftermath of the hurricanes, the people of Haiti have received a tremendous amount of relief support and food aid from their American neighbors and international community. The waters have since receded and as the people of Haiti have found temporary solace, they must nonetheless face the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With crops and herds of farm animals washed away, the cost of staple foods is sure to rise even higher than before, and farmers who earned a living by selling their crops are faced with bare fields and lost crops.
While temporary food aid will be needed, the only viable solution to Haiti’s food crisis remains grounded in its long-term investments in its agricultural sector and the promotion of local food production. Lambi Fund of Haiti’s Center of Plantain Propagation is helping in rapid reproduction of healthy plantain trees to replace rice and banana crops destroyed in the wake of the storms. Cisterns and irrigation canals rebuilt after the devastation from 2004’s Tropical Storm Jeanne and destroyed for a second time by Haiti’s recent storms will have to be rebuilt once again by Lambi Fund of Haiti. Partner organizations and their communities who have lost pigs, goats, cows, and other farm animals will now require support from Lambi Fund of Haiti to fund their animal breeding projects and become self-sustainable again. Consequently, the non-profit will intensify its grassroots efforts in Haiti and continue working towards sustainable development.
As a non-profit organization Lambi Fund of Haiti relies on generous donations to help make its programs available, and now more than ever Lambi Fund is in dire need of funding. To support the sustainable development efforts of Lambi Fund of Haiti, please visit LambiFund.org and make an online donation or mail a check to Lambi Fund of Haiti, PO Box 18955, Washington, DC 20036.
About Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund of Haiti provides financial resources, training, and technical assistance to peasant-led community organizations that promote the social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people. Their programs focus on sustainable development, community micro-credit, animal husbandry, restoring environmental integrity, and organizational and leadership training.
Contact:
Fabiola Fleuranvil of Blueprint Creative Group
for Lambi Fund of Haiti
(404) 437-0078
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
Posted in: Lambi Fund of Haiti
Tags: Haiti-disaster, Haiti-Food-Crisis, Haiti-food-security, Haiti-hurricane-relief, Haiti-hurricanes, Haiti-poverty, Hurricane-Ike, Lambi Fund of Haiti
September 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
Maxine Waters asks her colleagues for emergency disaster assistance for Haiti
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is circulating a letter among Members of Congress in support of emergency disaster assistance for Haiti. The letter asks the Speaker of the House of Representatives to provide at least $300 million in appropriations for disaster assistance for Haiti following the devastating hurricanes that swept through that impoverished country.
The following Members of Congress have already agreed to sign the letter: Maxine Waters, Bill Delahunt, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Barbara Lee, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Kendrick Meek, Raul Grijalva, Louise Slaughter, Elijah Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Corrine Brown, Diane E. Watson, Neil Abercrombie, William Jefferson, Jim Langevin, Bennie Thompson, James E. Clyburn, Carolyn B. Maloney, Dennis Kucinich, Edolphus Towns, Sanford Bishop, Bobby Rush, Al Green, Danny K. Davis, G. K. Butterfield, Chaka Fattah, C. A. Ruppersberger, Howard Berman, Henry Waxman, Sheila Jackson-Lee, James L. Oberstar, Peter A. DeFazio, Emanuel Cleaver, Donald Payne, Donna Christensen, Gwen Moore, Yvette D. Clarke, Donna F. Edwards.
The text of the letter is below.
September 11, 2008
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
H-232 Capitol Building
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
We are writing to request that you include at least $300 million in appropriations for disaster assistance for Haiti following the devastating hurricanes that swept through that impoverished country.
Over the past month, Haiti has been devastated by four deadly storms in rapid succession, Tropical Storm Fay, Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike. On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that 15,134 houses have been damaged or destroyed, and 154 people have been killed. As the flood waters began to recede, additional bodies have been found and buried. Tragically, the death toll may never be known.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), up to 800,000 people in Haiti are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. As of September 6th, more than 100,000 people had taken refuge in temporary shelters - and this was before the onslaught of Hurricane Ike. Many roads and bridges have been damaged or destroyed, and crops have been lost. There is a desperate need for food, water, and health services.
Haiti is already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It does not have the capacity to respond to the widespread death and destruction caused by storms of this magnitude. Immediate assistance from the United States is critical to meet the emergency needs of the Haitian people and begin to rebuild damaged homes and infrastructure.
We urge you to provide an appropriation of at least $300 million in disaster assistance for Haiti in the supplemental appropriations bill or another legislative vehicle that will be passed before Congress adjourns, and we look forward to working with you to help the people of Haiti rebuild their homes and their lives after these unprecedented storms.
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Tags: Congress-relief-for-Haiti, Emergency-disaster-assistance-for-Haiti, Maxine-Waters-helps-haiti
September 9th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, TRENTON DANIEL AND EVAN S. BENN
[Miami Herald] With Haiti’s major bridges crumbled, roadways flooded and an estimated one million people homeless, humanitarian and government groups struggled Monday to push relief supplies into the country and throughout the storm-ravaged Caribbean.
Four storms in rapid succession have demolished patches of the Caribbean from Cuba to Hispaniola to Jamaica to the Turks and Caicos Islands to the Bahamas, killing more than 350 people, sinking entire towns and hampering aid efforts.
”We need a flood of helicopters because there is a lot of food coming into Port-au-Prince and it cannot reach the provinces,” Haitian President René Préval said in an interview with The Miami Herald.
In Haiti, rescue groups have no access to many interior villages across the southern region and to hard-hit Gonaives, north of the capital, which was cut off when a bridge collapsed. A Red Cross truck trying to reach Les Cayes on the southern coast had to turn back because of impassable roads.
”The flooding is more extensive than people realize, and it’s awful how little relief has been able to get into Gonaives and other areas,” said Dr. Arthur Fournier, a University of Miami physician who co-founded Project Medishare, a charity that transports medical aid to Haiti.
Thousands of Haitians have been living in hospitals as temporary shelters, Fournier said.
”They are going to be stuck there for a long time,” he said. “They don’t have homes to go back to.”
Local, national and international groups worry that a secondary disaster could arise from water-borne diseases. Fournier’s group is trying to send LifeStraws to Haiti — hand-held devices that purify water. Humanitarian workers said the most crucial supplies they need is water, sanitation items and food.
The U.S. military helped deliver food and medical help Monday, and the U.S. Agency for International Development donated $10 million. Money also trickled in from around the world: The European Union gave $2.85 million for relief efforts, and the Dominican Republic — also struck by some of this year’s storms — donated water, food and mattresses. Trinidad and Tobago sent Haiti about $1.5 million.
Two U.S. Navy MH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters flew tens of thousands of pounds of food to Jeremie, an isolated Haitian city that Hurricane Gustav pounded. And the USS Kearsarge, a Navy hospital ship equipped with four operating rooms and 53 beds, arrived in Port-au-Prince after being rerouted from a mission to Colombia.
”It gives us a purpose,” said Sugat Patel, 34, an infectious-disease physician aboard the Kearsarge. He had five days off ahead of him until the ship was sent to Haiti. “I believe every soldier here would rather be doing something like this. They are doing their job.”
In South Florida, meanwhile, politicians, charities and Caribbean-American coalitions called on people to send cash and supplies to the region.
”Despite our economic downturn in Florida, we must make a generous sacrifice,” Miami Archbishop John C. Favalora said.
Favalora assured that the money would be delivered directly to churches in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica and other affected countries.
He then waded into the contentious political debate surrounding U.S. policy toward Cuba and Haiti, calling for an immediate granting of temporary protected status for Haitians. That status would stop deportations of Haitians, which Favalora said would be unspeakably cruel given the current conditions on the island.
Favalora also said the United States should lift the embargo on Cuba for humanitarian reasons. Lifting the embargo would allow the church to more easily send ”far more donations” to storm victims, he said.
South Florida congressional representatives also urged President Bush to halt the deportation of illegal Haitian immigrants until the island recovers from Ike’s devastation. And a coalition of Cuban-American groups asked the Bush administration to temporarily lift the sanctions on family aid and remittances, as did Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
”The best thing is for people to get help from friends and family,” said Mayra Sanchez of North Miami, whose mother and daughter live in Las Tunas, Cuba, where storms have damaged many homes. “But Cubans can’t do that because of the embargo.”
Relief is also needed in the southernmost Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, which Ike slammed into as a mighty Category 4 hurricane that peeled off roofs and knocked down buildings.
”It looks like Beirut,” Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick said at a Grand Turk airport with a collapsed hangar.
Some people cried and hugged Misick. At one home, women called out: “No food! No food!”
On the Bahamas’ Great Inagua Island, a man snacked on coconuts in the streets of Matthew Town. He said Ike had rendered him homeless but joked about the fallen trees all over the island.
”It’s easy to eat coconuts,” said Vincent Cartwright, 66, as he snacked on fruit he plucked from a downed tree.
Then, Cartwright said: “We got it bad here — we’re all mashed up.”
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Great Inagua station sustained minor damage, and crews there said they would assist with relief efforts soon.
Government workers and Red Cross volunteers flew into the island to survey damage and begin to distribute relief supplies like food, water and hygiene kits Monday afternoon.
The government’s presence provoked irritation from some in Matthew Town.
”This is a total disaster,” Leopold Mullings, 47, yelled from his bicycle toward the government entourage. “We don’t need assessments — we need money!”
Miami Herald staff writers Oscar Corral and Casey Woods contributed to this report, which was supplemented with material from The Associated Press.
© 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.http://www.miamiherald.com
Posted in: Lambi Fund of Haiti, Political Beat
Tags: Haiti-Destroyed-by-hurricanes, Haiti-flood, Haiti-Relief-Aid
September 6th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
It’s obvious that McCain’s choice for Sarah Palin has struck a bad nerve among all of us, especially with the cheap jab the decision obviously made at Obama and Clinton’s female supporters. With all of the controversy surrounding her and her family, it’s obvious that she’s not adequately fit to be VP. Besides that, Michelle Obama is known as “baby mama” to the New York Times but Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is apparently not a problem? Come on now. It’s obvious what’s going on.
But with all of this said and done and so much of it going on within the last week, Enough Already on Sarah Palin! As a marketing & public relations professional, it’s clearly obvious to me what McCain and his advisors are doing. They want to saturate all of the media with all things Sarah Palin and take away all of Obama’s shine from the media. They want us to talk and blog and report so much on Palin that we forget to talk and blog and report much more on Obama. They wanted to steal Obama’s glory with his record shattering viewership for his DNC speech and create so much drama around Palin that we’re all dying with curiosity and eventually turn to watch her speech. They want us to focus on her pregnant 17 year old and forget about the allegations of her unethical decision-making. Come on now- a soccer mom taking practice rounds with an assault rifle? That’s such an oxymoron.
Notice how the RNC was all about personal attacks and cheap shots at Obama and what he stands for that they didn’t even touch upon what their platform is about. I would think that McCain would’ve needed to distinguish himself from Bush and show America why it’s not another four years. Atleast, that would’ve been smart marketing. But instead they chose dirty politics, and it’s not because they want to win the race fair. It’s because they want to take America by the headlock and practically beat the vote out of us. It’s clear what the Republicans are trying to do. Remember that bad publicity is also good publicity!
We all know that as the race draws near and the big date approaches, the Republicans will pull every little dirty trick out of their sleeves for a cheap attempt at “stealing” the race. Be careful! This is bait and if you fall for it we’ll also hurt our chances of electing Obama. We need change! We need a solution to this war! We need to turn back around this embarrassing economy! We can’t do it with McCain and Palin in the White House. We need Obama and Biden in the White House.
So my suggestion is to stop talking about Palin and start talking more about Obama. Let’s talk about his platform and what America will be with him and Biden in office. (I just love Biden’s smile! His entire face just lights up when he smiles.) We need to monitor the media and how they’re siding with McCain and personally send opinion editorial letters to the media. We need to blog about Obama and encourage other bloggers to do the same. Palin has done a good job of taking over the Internet with all of this controversy. Let’s put Obama back at the top of the Internet listings.
Just my 2cents for what it’s worth!
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Tags: Obama-Biden, Obama-for-President
September 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
Over 100 Haitians are dead, rice and banana crops destroyed, and the food crisis worsens as Tropical Storm Fay, Hannah, and Ike and Hurricane Gustav ravages Haiti.
FL, September 4, 2008 – First, Tropical Storm Fay drenches the island of Haiti, reportedly kills more than 30 people, and floods and destroys rice fields and plantain crops in a country already suffering from a food crisis. Less than two weeks later Hurricane Gustav follows and slams Haiti resulting in flash flooding, massive mudslides sweeping anything in its path, and more than 70 Haitians dead. Many victims have been left homeless and have had to seek refuge on their rooftops while the city of Gonaives is now under 6 and a half feet of water. Gonaive’s hospitals are flooded and are asking for help in moving and securing their patients. With no break in sight, Tropical Storm Hannah immediately follows, killing ten Haitians and threatening with more devastation as Tropical Storm Ike follows closely behind. The recent storms are a grim reminder of Tropical Storm Jeanne that killed more than 3,000 Haitians in 2004. In a country devastated by a crippling food crisis, severe poverty, and devastation from natural disasters Haiti needs more than just temporary relief aid- it desperately needs investments in sustainable development.
Haiti experiences such devastation when natural disasters strike primarily due to its issues of deforestation. Described by one recent U.N. report as “one of the most environmentally degraded countries in the world” with less than one percent of its forests remaining, the degraded land leaves no topsoil to hold rains easily causing flash flooding when severe weather strikes. Although reforestation efforts from various non-profits including the Lambi Fund of Haiti and The Greenbelt Movement are planting millions of trees on the island, the country’s lack of sound energy policies has left its people to chop down trees to make charcoal for cooking. Ultimately, Haiti desperately requires investments in sustainable agricultural development in an effort to restore environmental integrity and reduce poverty.
Lambi Fund of Haiti is one such non-profit organization implementing programs dedicated towards improving the conditions in Haiti’s rural communities. Their core programs focuses on sustainable development, community micro-credit, animal husbandry, restoring environmental integrity, organizational and leadership training, and sustainable reforestation. The non-profit partners with peasant-led organizations and finances agricultural and environmental projects that foster national food production and long-term food security. Lambi Fund also participates in community micro-credit funding, animal breeding projects, irrigation pumps for quality water supply, and a reforestation movement that incorporates tree planting, tree nurseries, and agro forestry practices. During 2004’s Tropical Storm Jeanne, the non-profit worked with the community of Gonaives to rebuild irrigation canals and grain mills and provided emergency fund in rebuilding projects. In an effort to address some of the crop damages left by recent storms, Lambi Fund of Haiti’s Center of Plantain Propagation is also helping in rapid reproduction of healthy plantain trees.
A close neighbor to the U.S., Haiti desperately needs support in rebuilding the communities ravaged by the recent storms, but also needs support in becoming self-sufficient. Natural disasters cannot be avoided, but the severe devastation caused by it can surely be mitigated. To support the sustainable development efforts of Lambi Fund of Haiti, please visit LambiFund.org to make an online donation or mail a check to Lambi Fund of Haiti, PO Box 18955, Washington, DC 20036.
Media Contact:
Fabiola Fleuranvil of Blueprint Creative Group
for Lambi Fund of Haiti
(404) 437-0078
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
www.LambiFund.org
www.BlueprintCreativeGroup.com
Posted in: Lambi Fund of Haiti, Political Beat
Tags: Food-crisis, Haiti-poverty, Haiti-reforestation, Hurricane-Gustav, Lambi Fund of Haiti
August 29th, 2008 / No Comments » / by admin
MIAMI, FL, August 29, 2008 – The men of Alpha Phi Alpha provided a wonderful back to school jam for some of the boys in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami (BBBS) mentoring program. The boys had lunch and received new backpacks filled with school supplies along with other giveaways. They also received tutoring in Florida Memorial University’s computer courtyard and a tour of the campus.
Visit www.WeMentor.org
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