[Ssf] earth quake..

[Dan]

Oh, and more!

If we wanna get angry, this year there's gonna be a lot of 'Make Poverty 
History' campaigning, and lots of things in Sheffield will be going on.  
I think we could, for instance, really start really ramming the 
following facts down people's throats:

"The United States has spent more than $126bn on the war in Iraq, which 
will ultimately cost every American family an estimated $3,415, 
according to a new report by two thinktanks."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1246876,00.html

$126 billion!  That was in June of this year.  And the stupid f**kers 
still voted them back in.  It beggars belief...

Just to compare what that money could do.  The World Bank estimates that 
the cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goals is between £40-60 
billion a year, just as a comparison.

We could try something like a week-long living on a dollar a day 
challenge... any other ideas?

Dan


:

> Er... no, the Democracy Cafe is the Democracy Cafe.  Ever heard of 
> consensus or asking, Mozaz?  If you wanna organise a meeting, go 
> ahead: don't hijack the democracy cafe!
>
> Expose the real reasons why this happened?  Er... I really don't know 
> what to say to this.  Hopeful as I am that Sheffield Social Forum 
> might do some good things this year, stopping Earthquakes ain't one of 
> em...
>
> ... oh, hang on, what did your last post say?  That the Quake was 
> Mother Earth crying out for help?
>
> So: Mother Earth in pain - we can save her by environmental and 
> political campaigning... no more natural disasters?  You do know that 
> tectonic plates are moving all the time, yes?  There's some discussion 
> to be had about the measly amount of aid we spend, the lack of 
> infrastructure, the fact that a three hour warning wasn't given 
> because it might affect the tourist trade if it turned out to be 
> false... but do we need to get into Mother Earth being in pain?
>
> Mozaz: I'm not trying to be insulting here, but really - I know you're 
> not a fan of religion at the best of times, so what the hell are you 
> talking about now?  It's the same kind of reasoning as the response 
> pasted below after 9/11 - entirely a religious one.
> [from http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0920-02.htm]
>
> "With the country united in mourning before the fallen towers, the 
> preacher spattered his words across the devastated landscape. In a 
> moment of crisis, the evangelist linked theological arms with the enemy.
>
> "Before a television congregation, Jerry Falwell offered up his credo: 
> ''I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the 
> feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to 
> make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American 
> Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the 
> finger in their face and say, `You helped this happen.'''
>
> "His henchman, Pat Robertson, seconded the motion, ''Well, I totally 
> concur.''
>
> "Their Rolodex of villains had made, they said, God Almighty remove 
> his curtain of protection. Remove it, presumably, from the thousands 
> of Americans drinking their morning coffee in the twin towers and 
> turning on their computers in the Pentagon.
>
> "What better spokesman for the Taliban? Our fundamentalists agree with 
> theirs. God is on their side. America's sins are to blame..."
>
>
> worldwarfree at riseup.net wrote:
>
>> people have been speaking and whatever the reasons lets not forget 
>> the political
>> in all of this.. some of us are planning some events.. first stage 
>> seems to be a
>> pre-meeting next tuseday from 6pm onwards (the democracey cafe) to 
>> get organised
>> a public meeting.. this will happen at the blue moon.. can i also ask 
>> to be
>> olaced on the agenda of the next sheffield social forum meeting on 
>> the 6th.. we
>> must use our RAGE at the deaths to a positive and expose the real 
>> reasons as to
>> why this happened..
>>
>> mozaz
>>
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