Re: Campaign to Make Poverty History in This Generation!

<know_buddee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> We are all interconnected.  Ignoring  those who starve to death while
> tons of food rots, while we stuff our faces and get obese is inhumane
> and insane.

You may well be right that it is inhumane and insane.

And it is precisely for these reasons that it is im****tant to win round
our
politicians to take appropriate action. But you will not do so by talking
of
inhumanity and insanity. You need a pragamatic strategy. You have to make
politicians see that change is in fact in the interests of Western states.

But how can we show this?

The reality is that it is in the political and economic interests of
Western
states to keep the under-developed peoples poor. You yourself recognise
that
refusing to pay their foreign debts would hurt Western states? But then if
these peoples did refuse to pay, no Western state would ever lend them
money
again. So that strategy doesn't work.

What would you do?

regards
Don