Quote: Mintball "Lovely idea.
In the meantime, what do you suggest those same children actually eat while we're all 'making the rich pay' (by methods that you don't seem to have detailed). Your words?
The Red Cross is giving out food parcels in the UK and Save the Children is spending money here for the first time. Will you also be telling people, globally, not to donate to these?
Would the deaths of a few starved infants help, do you think? And if so, how many?
Mind, if you want emotional blackmail, I suggest that rl'cause marketing' is far worserl
We already have starved children, half starved children children living in poverty on a day to dat basis and it is getting worse.
Where are all the documentary's highlighting what is going on, Where are the film makers,
Where is the new Cathy Come home,
Where are the political commentators pointing out the hypocrisy of rich people asking poorer people for money to give to the really poor.
In victorian times which is what we are going back to
Where are the enlightened campaigners who campaign for social reform,
where are the unions who campaign for workers rights and point out all of these things.
Where is the political leadership which seems to concentrate on the squeezed middle and ignore the huge inequality we are experiencing.
At this stage it is the battle of ideas that needs to be won and most people seem to have given up, political consciousness seems to be at an all time low as everyone decides it ise asier to follow in the mainstream.
Maybe boycotting children in Need and explaining why is part of that process.