social issues
Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary Sparks Patriotism
Today is one of those days when I am extra happy and proud to be Canadian. Of course, I’m happy and proud to be Canadian on normal days, but today is not a normal day. It is the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, where on this day in 1989 around 800-1000 students, workers, [...]
Money Where Your Mouth Is
As an author, I think a lot about poverty. Poverty of thought, of insight; poverty of understanding. But today I’m looking at poverty as a literal, raw financial reality.
The vast majority of the world lives in poverty. If I had lived in the historical times in which I set many of my novels, my own [...]
Poverty and Crime
It is a fact of history that poverty breeds crime. Of course, this does not mean that a majority of people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds become criminals, or that all criminals are the product of poor backgrounds. Nor is poverty the only factor that goes into the making of a criminal. But it is [...]
Understand how HIV/AIDS-affected orphans can survive
My name is John Miller, and I’m a Canadian novelist. Like most Canadian novelists, I have a second career. On this Blog Action Day 2008 against poverty, I wanted to share my thoughts on the work I do related to children affected by HIV and AIDS.
Much media attention has been given to the terrible crisis [...]
Interact with Dundurn Authors
In anticipation of the many blog posts that our authors will be posting to contribute to Blog Action Day, I’d like to invite our readers to interact with these authors – or even any author not blogging.
Feel free to post comments on any of our poverty posts.
Or contribute to the dialogue by telling us your [...]
Dundurn Authors to Speak Out On Poverty
On October 15th, 4,477 blog sites will write about issues surrounding POVERTY as part of this year’s Blog Action Day.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger [...]
