Tuesday, March 2, 2010

30 Second Justice

While the polices and social impacts of aid food make it both a lifesaver and a blight on the local economy, there are other, potentially more just, ways that you can use your internet time to propagate small acts of justice.

Sites like this one use your clicks to support the literacy programs that can literally change lives both in the US and around the world.

Literacy opens doors to knowledge, and knowledge gives the power that people need to change their own lives, which then provides opportunity to perpetuate the cycle of justice.

Even on the relatively slow internet connection that we have here, this literally takes thirty seconds out of my day. Besides, who’s going to argue against reading, right?

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