Sunday morning thoughts: I am constantly informed and impressed with the level of intelligent information, both original source and identified and shared, from friends all over the world here on FB. Some solid editorial choices that I appreciate. However, it seems the vast majority of the atrocity related subject matter is addressed from distance and safety. Pandemics, refugee marches, droughts, ethnic cleansing, torture, etc., etc. I believe we are so accustomed here in the states to this darkness at a safe distance frame to world events that we have become blind to our own realities. Right now, if held in the same frame we observe international atrocities, Detroit needs international humanitarian intervention. Massive water shut-offs are leaving people by the thousands without safe drinking water. (The United Nations just completed a site visit on this issue) Small backyard livestock being raised for food/survival are being seized and destroyed. Now,150,000 properties are slated for foreclosure, above and beyond the cleansing that has occurred in the residential property sector since the collapse of 2008, forcing residents into refugee status. Water is shut off. Food sources are being seized. Shelter is being foreclosed upon. The slow delivery of story after story covering these realities renders it difficult to see them for what they truly are in totality, but see it we must. A major U.S. city is, right now, desperately in need of the establishment of a humanitarian corridor, just like the ones established in war zones across the globe in times of crisis. by Nancy Kotting Well said.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:29:55 +0000
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