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Join over 245,000 others who have signed on to Make Poverty History.

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Endorse the Make Poverty History campaign goals.

We're calling for MORE and BETTER AID, TRADE JUSTICE, DEPT CANCELLATION, and an END TO CHILD POVERTY IN CANADA.

HAMILTON STANDS UP AGAINST POVERTY ON OCT 17, 2007 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY.

www.standagainstpoverty.org

This Year 38.7 million people worldwide including 75,000 Canadians stood up against poverty and set a NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD! They stood up to remind their governments to KEEP THEIR PROMISES.

The PROMISES they MADE SEVEN YEARS AGO with the Millennium Development Goals. ...STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY AND INEQUALITY!

Thank you to Everyone who signed our Hamilton Banner Here is an update you've all been waiting for! We should all be very proud of our contribution from Hamilton.
Hello Linda,

Thanks for sending along the information on the banner events you held. To be quite honest, your banner was my favourite of the 70+ banners that came in – it very visually appealing and the photos show how much work you put into it! We used it at the events on parliament hill and the Feeding change event with politicians – d id you see the blog about the banner at http://blog.makepovertyhistory.ca/node/31 and the flickr account for all the banners at http://www.flickr.com/photos/21936483@N03/show/ ?

Update - World's Longest Banner Against Poverty
Submitted by SarahMohan on December 19, 2007 - 15:39.
More than 70 banners, created across Canada, are now on their way to join the world's largest Banner!

Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/21936483@N03/show/ to see a slideshow of the banners (and be sure to enable showing of picture titles).

From Saint John to Victoria, communities created beautiful works of art, with thousands of signatures on them, to express their solidarity with the global movement to make poverty history. After using them in their communities for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the banners were sent in to the Make Poverty History Campaign office in Ottawa.

In Ottawa, they made their premiere at an event called Feeding Poverty, organized by a coalition of Canadian anti-poverty organizations in Ottawa on 26 November, where low-income citizens sat down to dinner with politicians to discuss their experiences with poverty and what they want politicians to do.

They were then used at a Rally on Development Aid on November 27th on Parliament Hill. This rally helped to get Canadian Senators to move Bill C-293, aka "the Better Aid Bill", moved to the next stage of consideration. To sign the petition in support of this Bill, which proposes to target all Canadian aid spending to poverty