The G8 ministers are attending next month’s summit are invited to bag the lavish banquet they’ll be served one night at Gleneagles, Scotland and have a single bowl of rice on Devonshire Green with some nice people from MakePovertyHistory.org. More information: G8: You’re Invited! Please RSVP

This is the first post in a new category, MakePovertyHistory. I’m pledging to post links to stories, at least once a week, that illustrate the need for an organization whose purpose is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of suffering from disease, world debt, and corruption in Africa and the world over. Rather than harangue all 2 of my readers, I’ll just post the links and a short quote and let you decide for yourselves if you are moved to respond in some way of your own. Sometimes the stories will be outrageous or horrific, and sometimes they’ll be…