This is a collection of the Blog Action Day 2008 posts from around the b5media network. If I’ve missed you, please drop me a comment or a note with your link!
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty (BuzzNetworker)
Thousands of blogs all around the world are using today to blog about poverty and work with BlogActionDay to help change the conversation. Social media, and it’s ease of use, from anyone with a state-of-the-art laptop to a cell phone to a desktop from the early IBM days can create a blog, twitter, use Facebook or MySpace.
Social media, no matter how you access it or how you use it, is about the conversation and more so, it’s about the connection and the relationship you form with others. Social media doesn’t recognize financial boundaries or constraints.
Cocktails for a Cause (Drinks after Dark)
While alcoholism affects many who live in poverty, there are equally as many of us who can not only have a drink or two and stop, but who can also afford it. And if you can afford it, it’s time to start giving back.
A Wordless Wednesday look at global poverty - no place is immune, no person is safe. (Leadership Turn)
Good News: The American Dream Ain’t Dead. Better News: Poverty Can Be Beaten. (Franchise Pick)
This blog has been out of whack for a while, listing way to far to the franchise-as-scam department. I’m not intending to stop posting investment
warnings and hosting debates, but I’ve been eager to add more of the positives of business start-ups and franchise success.
Whose Sorry Now? (Filipina Soul)
What was the first thing in your mind when you saw this image?
Poverty? Yes, obviously. It’s a family in the middle of what could only be a squatter site backdropped with high-rise buildings. Trash all around, and maybe it’s a dumpsite too. There’s a really tiny house/store and an bathroom made of corrugated metal to the side. Teenagers loitering around means they’re not in school, or maybe out of it, either by choice or out of luck.
Chronic pain + poverty = sad quality of life (Help My Hurt)
How does poverty affect people who live with pain?
People who live with chronic pain and who live in poverty are hit with a double whammy. It can be hard enough to manage chronic pain if you have the appropriate resources - it’s much more difficult if you’re fighting to survive at the same time. And, it frequently happens that chronic pain causes poverty. Thus starts the vicious cycle that becomes almost too difficult to break.
Fathers and their Post Partum Depression (Womb Within)
What makes it sound odd is that PPD is caused by many things, including the hormones that affect women after delivery. But, according to SadDaddy.com, “Every day, over 1,000 new dads in the United States become depressed. And according to some studies, that number is as high as 2,700. That’s 1 in 10 to as many as 1 in 4 new dads who have postpartum depression.”
Poverty and Breast Cancer (Pink Ribbon Review)
“Poor persons, regardless of their race, are likely to have undesirable cancer outcomes,” said Cathy J. Bradley, associate professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Medicine and lead author of a 2002 study that found that poverty was key to late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and poor survival.
It’s Blog Action Day (Golden Pencil)
I work to make the goal of a world that works for everyone (the vision of The United Church of Religious Science). Part of what I’ve learned is that I haven’t got a clue about how to end poverty or create a world that works for everyone. Instead, I now ask “how can I help?” and then try to listen closely.
Five Damaging Mthys about BreastFeeding and Poverty (BreastFeeding123)
Welcome Blog Action Day and Carnival of Breastfeeding readers! As thousands of bloggers around the world reflect on the topic of poverty, Breastfeeding 1-2-3 and other breastfeeding carnival participants (see links at the end of this post) are discussing poverty as it relates to the topic of breastfeeding.
Poverty & Mental Health (Mental Health Notes)
It’s Blog Action Day 2008 here in the Interwebs.
Topic: Poverty. All day long.
Me: Clueless. Until last night.
It’s not like I couldn’t think of any way to blog about the various connections between mental health and poverty. My problem was, I couldn’t think of any new way to approach the subjects.
Poverty and the Global Financial Crisis (Gamerlite)
I just started with my new work last Monday and admittedly it was a big huge culture shock for me. The company where I’m at now is uber conservative and formal as compared to the wild and crazy atmosphere where I came from.
“War/Dance” Review (Flim Gecko)
In honor of Blog Action Day, which is focusing on poverty this year, I’m reviewing “War/Dance,” a thoughtful, heartbreaking, and inspiring film. It made the film festival circuit last year, had a limited theatrical release on Nov. 9, 2007, and hit DVD shelves on April 15, 2008.
Field of Food - helping to raise 1,00,000 pounds of food (Southernbyways)
Did you know that 1 in 6 residents in Broward County will go hungry tonight? They may be your friends, your neighbors and now is your chance to help. Next Saturday, October 18th, Volunteer Broward has teamed up with Broward County Schools and The Million Meals Committee to present the first annual Field of Food. Their goal is to collect 1,ooo,ooo pounds of food as part of the largest one-day food drive that has ever taken place in Broward County, Florida.
Take a stand against poverty (Keeping the Castle)
This year’s topic is poverty. As keepers of our homes, what can we do to alleviate someone else’s suffering for lack of material resources?
Here are just some of the 88 suggestions from the Blog Action Day site:
