Since 2000, October 17 has been the United Nation's International Day for Eradication of Poverty.
to read the UN Declaration on the International Day for Eradication of Poverty by Ban Kim-Moon, click on
link to
http://social.un.org/index/Poverty/InternationalDayfortheEradicationofPoverty.aspx
to hear the UN Secretary General from 2000, click on
http://www.un.org/events/poverty2000/messages.htm
to read Chris Hedges' "A Movement Too Big to Fail" published on www,.truth-out.org, Oct 17, 2011, click on
http://www.truth-out.org/movement-too-big-fail/1318858329
to read Jay Walljasper's "The Struggle for the Commons" published in The Nation, October 17, 2011 click on
http://www.thenation.com/article/163670/struggle-commons
www.onthecommons.org
http://kickitover.org
www.adbusters.org
www.submedia.tv
www.dylanradio.com
www.wearemany.org
www.socialistproject.ca
www.worklessparty.org
Original: International Day for Eradication of Poverty and Chris Hedges