in the wind | tweets from the week ending 06.15.13

Think music can change the world? The ONE Campaign presents agit8: iconic #protestsongs by top global artists

"...close enough to touch" | Medgar Evers + the price of freedom jimhancock.blogspot.com

day by day, the American body count mounts while Congress looks the other way jimhancock.blogspot.com

Bono @TED | Extreme Poverty is in Retreat | Let's Not Give Scarcity a Fighting Chance.

Extreme poverty declined from 43% in 1990 to 33% in 2000 to 21% by 2010 — that's a 50% reduction of extreme poverty in two decades. 

If the present trend line continues, we can reach zero before 2030. @Bono talks @TED about not screwing that up.