Stand Up, BE COUNTED, in your support to end extreme poverty
Be Counted and be a part of the Guinness World Record. Join millions of others in calling on world leaders to honor their commitments to end extreme poverty by 2015 and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. You can take the online action right here on Change.org anytime between 9pm GMT on Oct. 16th and 9pm GMT on Oct. 17th and be counted towards a Guinness World Record for the most people to Stand Up and Speak Out for a cause.
How to be Counted:
1. Read the short pledge and physically STAND UP wherever you are:
I am standing now with millions around the world to show my commitment to the fight against extreme poverty and inequality. I am standing because I refuse to accept more excuses in a world where 50,000 people die every day as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor is getting wider. I am standing to ask the world’s leaders to keep their promises to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Today, and every day, I will stand up and speak out against poverty.
2. Click 'Make this Committment,' enter your information, click 'Submit' and you will be counted for the Guinness World Record.
Click here to share this action with friends outside the Change community.
To learn more go to http://www.standagainstpoverty.org
This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.
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Martele Banks Columbia, SC @ 10:59PM PT Aug 04
Pledge fulfilled Aug 04!
I think Brian Dowling is right, we all have to come back Oct. 16th.
Brian Dowling Hacienda Heights, CA @ 07:59AM PT Aug 01
Could somebody explain to me how one fullfill this pledge before October 16 thru October 18. Guinness only counts it if it happens during that time period. The Stand Up Take Action site says for those planning real world events "Important, you have to come back on October 16-18 to be officially counted by Guiness World Records!" http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/node/8842 Everyone who has "completed the pledge" needs to come back on October 16. If I got this wrong let me know.
Brian Dowling Hacienda Heights, CA @ 07:51AM PT Aug 01
To anybody out there - the "Click here to share this action with friends outside the Change community" is a dead end. Somebody should fix that.
Casey Cox Three Rivers, MI @ 09:35PM PT Jun 30
Pledge fulfilled Jun 30!
Put this pledge on my Facebook. Grateful to be a part of this one!
Walt Vasco Portland, OR @ 12:16AM PT May 26
Pledge fulfilled May 26!
Thanks for the invite.
See the (About You) part of my profile
Aloha, Walt
Dana Dictus @ 08:55AM PT May 15
I feel it is important to come together and help our countrys' people in this hard times. We need to be united in our efforts to make sure our future generations have a chance to succeed.
LaWana Kelly @ 08:53AM PT May 07
Being counted is important. It lets the world know that as a world citizen, I care.
Nathan Banana Manchester, United Kingdom @ 06:39AM PT Apr 02
We need a more concerted effort on Zimbabwe as well the conditions in the prison environment is beyond human tolerance. http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/3882
Ali Canada Tulsa, OK @ 03:28PM PT Mar 24
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Lee Dorsey Chico, CA @ 10:26AM PT Feb 17
You all do know that these petition/internet things are effective.....Well, I guess you do...look who won the Presidency! As more evidence, MOVE ON did a petition drive to get questions for the BANK CEO's, those are what the Representatives used to grill them at the last hearing. (see the video of Rachel Maddow discussing that on her show.) Then having hundreds of thousands of citizen petitions, in hand, was the leverage Sen Dodd used to get Wall Street bonuses taken away inserted in an amendment to the Stimulus Bill, just on the last conference day last week. It' not just CEO's that must forego (even pay back) bonuses, all managerial levels cannot have bonuses, until the banks make profits...as it should be. .......So, keep signing all the real petitions you approve of. (By real I mean the ones on valid nonprofit sites... not on 'Petition' sites such as CARE2 which are only up to collect email addresses.) ... if you don't want mail back from the nonprofit sites, just be sure to uncheck their email boxes. That works fine, usually.