MAKEpovertyHISTORY

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Originally uploaded by Pip Wilson.

..... I remember sitting on the carpet with the kids as we watched TV as Nelson Mandela walk out after 27 years in prison ....... and weeping deeply

....... I remember going as a family to watch 'Cry Freedom' the movie ....... and sobbing in that west end cinema as Steve Bilko was battered to death because he stood for justice ..........

I remember playing The Specials 'Free Nelson Mandela' video - year after year - at Greenbelt in the VERY STINKING LATE SHOW that Martin Wroe and I used to 'front' ..........

I remember sitting with late teens/early twenties young people and telling them about Nelson Mandela because they did not know who he was ......... this week ...... that was this week!

I will remember today for a long time; MAKING POVERTY HISTORY...... the kick off ...... and telling everyone about it EVEN when I could not go myself - STINK.

On the 15th of January I slipped on a white wristband at a Greenbelt Trustees meeting and will not remove till it - or I - disintegrate!

(I heard on the radio that Wayne Rooney - who plays that 'round ball game' ....... I heard he had a similar one on this week when he did a goal or two for the reds. Apology about referencing football - it is not my game!)

So the year ahead needs us to do more than wearing a wristband ... now? ..... how can I make poverty history in my lifetime hmmmm ...... have you read my few words called;
ME-WE ?
http://pipwilson.com/Pages/Me%20We.html

Maybe it is a 'we' thing and we can do it together ....... it is a SHALOM thing.


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