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The G8: Protesting the Protest
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Tuesday December 13, 2005 17:16 by Billy O'Flaherty - Organise! organiseireland at yahoo dot ie
One of the problems that charities have experienced in the last twenty years or so has been what is referred to as ‘compassion fatigue’. Images of the pot-bellied, malnourished kids of sub-Saharan Africa, it was found, did not play well in communities where male unemployment often ran at 80%, single mothers fed their wains a diet of fish fingers and cornflakes, and pensioners froze to death in the winter trying to shave a few extra pounds off their heating bills. Diseases such as TB and even rickets reappeared and hospitals began to admit people from working class communities diagnosed as suffering from malnutrition. As the working class traditionally contributed more to ‘famine relief’ at the behest of wealthy charities and wealthier pop stars than the middle and upper classes put together, the charities sat up and took notice. They began to harp on about tackling poverty ‘at home’ as well as abroad, and people were urged to give generously to provide after-care facilities for the kids of single parents in inner city Salford or rehab centres in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Basically, working class communities were asked yet again to self-medicate without the fuckin’ price of the medicine and put their hand into their own pockets to come up with the cash. And those asking them to do so are the self-same people, celebrities and nonebrities alike who asked us all to the G8 summit in Scotland. Thankfully, and unsurprisingly, many people have told them to go fuck themselves. |
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