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Aug. 15th, 2010 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thoreauwonders what good in the world we'd do if we stopped spending American dollars bombing parts of the world for years upon years - and instead - spent the same amount of resources saving people.
Flood-affected people wade through water for higher ground in Muzaffargarh near Multan on Aug. 13. (K.M. Chaudary / AP)
The flooding in Pakistan is JUST ONE topic. I listened this week to stories about the growing chasm between the rural parts and metropolitan parts of India - and how in one of the largest countries in the world the poor have no rights - and women are still chattle/property. I listened to this week about the crisis of "corrective rape" against lesbian women in South Africa. How gangs of men are charging into lesbian parties and hidden clubs, and raping them to show them the "pleasure" of natural sex.
listening - and knowing these things - literally has me feeling helpless when I think about it. and also very aware of how ever single problem in my life is inconsequential in comparison. Listening to NPR and listening to the suffering going relatively unabated in other parts of the world simply breaks my heart.
Flood-affected people wade through water for higher ground in Muzaffargarh near Multan on Aug. 13. (K.M. Chaudary / AP)
The flooding in Pakistan is JUST ONE topic. I listened this week to stories about the growing chasm between the rural parts and metropolitan parts of India - and how in one of the largest countries in the world the poor have no rights - and women are still chattle/property. I listened to this week about the crisis of "corrective rape" against lesbian women in South Africa. How gangs of men are charging into lesbian parties and hidden clubs, and raping them to show them the "pleasure" of natural sex.
listening - and knowing these things - literally has me feeling helpless when I think about it. and also very aware of how ever single problem in my life is inconsequential in comparison. Listening to NPR and listening to the suffering going relatively unabated in other parts of the world simply breaks my heart.
