Just a phrase

First of all, I am a Barak Obama supporter but I haven't named this blog The Fierce Urgency of Now for that reason. Nor did I name it that because of Martin Luther King Jr's origination of the phrase during the hight of the Civil Rights movement. I used it because it still rings true. There is a fierce urgency of now. The urgency of bringing 1.1 billion people out of extreme poverty. The urgency of ending the war in Iraq and restoring that country to a stable, self-sufficient political entity. The urgency of ending the half a century old war between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The urgency of bringing stability and growth to sub-Saharan Africa.

I don't have the answers right now. I don't even know if there are answers. And there are many more problems that need to be solved then the few I've mentioned before. But I wanted a place to share my thoughts and more importantly to hear the thoughts of you and anyone out there who wanted to share them.

Dialogues, conversations and communications are the way to find solutions. Not necessarily solutions to bringing peace to the world, but solutions to making life better for those in areas of poverty or conflict. What do people around the world think of the problems I've listed above or the problems of their area? I watch the news here in the US. I listen to the BBC. I read al Jazeera's website. But all news is run through political filters. I assume comments here will be as well but I urge you to be open about them.

I hope you have comments. I'll add thoughts to this as I have them.

Thanks, Benjamin