one campaign

so a couple of years ago, a couple of people with lot's of money and a little time, and a big dream started a campaign called the jubilee campaign. this was based on an old testament decree, that actually never was celebrated. every 50 years all debts were forgiven and all debt driven slaves where released free from their debt and able to return to their familys'. the jubilee campaign never really took off here in the u.s.; however the people behind the idea didn't give up.

the ideas for the jubilee campaign was transformed into the drop the debt campaign here in the states (you may have heard of it in this form). this was fairly successful, both clinton and dub (g. w. bush) were captured by this campaign and actually took some great steps towards forgiving the debt of most of the african nations that owe money to the world bank and the u.s.

again this idea morphed into the d.a.t.a. organization (debt aids trade africa) which still carries all the same ideals basically as the previous campaigns (all still exist, you can visit their web-sites here-www.jubileeusa.org or www.data.org)

now, before us we have a campaign with the same dream, a little different, tweaked in some ways to get the message across. it's called the one campaign. check it out, www.one.org or travel over to this site www.sun.com/one/video-60-mov-hi.html it's more than worth the one minute you spent reading this.

ok, i'm done... for now