The loss of an icon... and 20,000 not-so-average joes

     This past week we've lost the king of pop, Michael Jackson.  We've also lost Ed Mcmahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays.  All of these celebrities made an impact, small or large on our culture in some way.  Whether is was the sexy, wavy blonde hair that boosted farrah into sex symbol stardom or a larger than life Billy Mays sporting a denim button up shirt yelling at me to buy some sort of cleaning product, they all will be remembered as making a difference. 
 And while these deaths are indeed sad and they will all be missed in their own ways, what about the millions of people living in poverty right now, who will die tomorrow, living in pain today?  Why are their deaths not being reported? 
according to stopthehunger, well over 20,000 people have died already today from hunger and over 5,000,000 have died from hunger this year already!! Those deaths warrent reporting just as much as Jack-o's death does.  While the world is mourning these deaths (500 million people logged on to Jackson' memorial ticket vendor in the 1st hour perez hilton) a mother mourns the loss of her skin and bones malnurished son. 
  So what can we do about it? We can get informed about the hunger rates, support organizations who aid needy people.  So here are some websites:
http://www.stopthehunger.com/
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/features-reviews/reject-apathy
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm
http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dotorg_homepage
http://www.worldvision.org/home.nsf/pages/home.htm
http://www.tomsshoes.com/
http://www.usaid.gov/

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