Comments on: Defending the Franklin School Shelter http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/defending-the-franklin-school-shelter/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hilary Nalven http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/defending-the-franklin-school-shelter/#comment-29313 Hilary Nalven Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:30:26 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3565#comment-29313 Thanks for this well-researched, informative article that importantly brings attention to those who have consistently been, and, unfortunately with this newly passed bail-out, still will continue to be left behind. Despite an "economic crisis", it's amazing how much money exists for the USG to appropriate. Yet funding allocations will remain concentrated in the few hands of the extremely rich and focused on ineffective "wars on terror and drugs", rather than taking care of people in this nation, especially our children. Foreign assistance to improve the livelihoods of our impoverished global citizens is also disgustingly and disproportionately pathetic- less than .2% of US GDP. When will the political will- amongst governments and the general public- be shifted sufficiently to change the flow of capital so that it actually reaches the people that need it most? Who knows, if it ever happens. But I do have hope that through others' political actions (e.g. Andrew's above article), we can all become more aware of current injustices and each figure out some way to do something about them. Thanks for this well-researched, informative article that importantly brings attention to those who have consistently been, and, unfortunately with this newly passed bail-out, still will continue to be left behind. Despite an “economic crisis”, it’s amazing how much money exists for the USG to appropriate. Yet funding allocations will remain concentrated in the few hands of the extremely rich and focused on ineffective “wars on terror and drugs”, rather than taking care of people in this nation, especially our children. Foreign assistance to improve the livelihoods of our impoverished global citizens is also disgustingly and disproportionately pathetic- less than .2% of US GDP.

When will the political will- amongst governments and the general public- be shifted sufficiently to change the flow of capital so that it actually reaches the people that need it most? Who knows, if it ever happens. But I do have hope that through others’ political actions (e.g. Andrew’s above article), we can all become more aware of current injustices and each figure out some way to do something about them.

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