“Positive Foundations”, a Brandeis University student group, worked all year to set up the “Millennium Development Goals Week,” which included lectures from experts on development, history and economics, a concert fundraiser, and culminated in a community dinner focused on economic inequality and effective development techniques.

The highlights of the week were a live video conference with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, and a “Call to Action” with the ONE Campaign, where students called their senators to make sure poverty eradication is a legislative priority.

At the Call to Action, leaders of the Brandeis Democrats, Brandeis Republicans and Democracy for America, and over fifty students and faculty members, came together to call their senators and urge them to support the bipartisan Feinstein-Hegel Dear Colleagues Letter, to allocate $39.8 billion for the 2008 international affairs budget. At the end, all of the attendees held up their cell phones to acknowledge the power of their own voices. Positive Foundations was proud to host Millennium Development Goals Week and to help make poverty eradication a legislative and electoral priority.

Now keep the calls coming! Call 1-800-786-2663 and ask your senators to support the Feinstein-Hagel Dear Colleague letter to allocate full funding to the 2008 international affairs budget.