ONE.org: Looking Back on a Decade Full of 'Mind-Boggling' Progress Jamie Drummond - ONE.org
go to original May 24, 2014

This week, ONE celebrated 10 years of campaigning with members and partner organizations around the world. We’ve come a long way together

At ONE we believe injustice in the world is a preventable, treatable condition, one that can be cured by dealing with an underlying malaise – something called apathy. ONE is an experiment in anti-apathy on a global scale.

Ten years ago today we launched this experimental campaigning organization at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. We did this to underscore how ONE would be built on the shoulders of giant ideals, inspired as we are by the Jubilee passage from Leviticus inscribed on the Bell: that slaves must be freed, land redistributed and debts cancelled in a radical, once-every-generation gesture of divine justice.

ONE also is entirely the product of those who inspire us, fired by the same ideals: Desmond Tutu, South African activist Zackie Achmat and Ugandan educator Noerine Kaleeba on AIDS; Bill and Melinda Gates on vaccines and child mortality; George Soros, Mo Ibrahim, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and John Githongo on open government and anti-corruption; and above all, Nelson Mandela and more recently Pope Francis on the fundamental fight against the injustice of extreme poverty.

All these people will say the same thing – they in turn are inspired by the 1 billion human beings struggling to live in dignity, struggling to determine their own destiny, who are living on less than $1.25 a day.

So how are we doing, applying these demanding ideas of justice to grubby reality? Well, we’ve helped pass some historic pieces of legislation, played a part in huge global movements, and through these, helped ONE members express themselves in practical solidarity with the oppressed fellow members of our one human family.

In the past decade, with our partners, we’ve helped achieve the following pieces of pretty mind-boggling progress - check it out here.

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