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in honor of world AIDS day...

today's chewable vitamin

"we're serious, this is gigantic.
this stuff is the real reason to be in politics,
to go door to door, to organise and demonstrate and take bold action.
it's every bit as noble as your grandparents fighting the nazis.
this is not about 'doing our best.'
it's win or lose.
life or death.
literally so.
if i could ask you to think a hundred years ahead,
to imagine what we, and our times, will be remembered for,
i would venture three things: the internet, the war on terror,
and the fate of the continent of africa.

we are the first generation that can look extreme and stupid poverty in the eye,
look across the water to africa and elsewhere and say this and mean it:
we have the cash, we have the drugs, we have the science --
but do we have the will?
do we have the will to make poverty history?
some say we can't afford to. i say we can't afford not to."

~ bono

for more on world aids day:

:: the un's website
:: the 'official site'
:: the balm in gilead: the black church's response to the AIDS pandemic
:: get involved locally (in columbus)
:: get involved locally (wherever you are)
:: columbus' commeration