It is hard to believe there are millions of people going hungry daily.
Yes this is world food day!
There are many people who do not have the privilege to sit in a nice restaurant with water to drink and food to eat.
I come home from church feeling a little sorry for myself because we had lunch at church which was sandwiches and good goodies and I have my same old veggies and fruit which I should be thankful for, and I am, but it just does not fill me up. There is so much injustice and greed that causes a lot of these problems with others having no food while we have so much.
Also before church we heard Pres. Obama speak at the memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. and it was a great speech. I can only hope he means what he is saying and wants to carry on the work by supporting the poor and making the rich pay their share. Of course the rich and powerful do not want change but there can be no peace without justice.
Change will not come without struggle and conflict but if we truly listen to the cries of the hungry and unemployed we will come to understand we must change or all will be lost.
In Canada the question is our are rights to bargain being taken from us. The postal union and the airlines would say they are.
2 comments:
About 5 or 6 years ago, before he was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff gave a good speech to a party conference of some sort or other about youth poverty in Canada, and about how something needed to be done about it.
If I had been one of his advisors in the last year or two before the election, I would have suggested that he dust that speech off and take a look at it. The issue, although largely within provincial jurisdiction (as is health care, but that didn't prevent the federal Canada Health Act from being passed into law), is simple and easily understood. Everybody accepts, at some level, that a country as rich as ours should not have any children in poverty. If he had campaigned doing something about that, then he might have still lost, but at least it would have been a defeat for some purpose. All good ideas must go down to defeat at least once before they get adopted.
Love,
Rick
I dont know a lot about politics Rick - but i strongly agree with your last statement - or should i say closing argument. - theresa
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