tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post3773263842873488969..comments2024-01-25T07:49:50.636-08:00Comments on News from Mary Castillo: Madonna In the SlumsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725758281856344830noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-80662124235445586152008-01-10T11:59:00.000-08:002008-01-10T11:59:00.000-08:00I have thought about it...which is why I'm alarmed...I have thought about it...which is why I'm alarmed so few of my peers seem to notice. Or if they do, seem to do nothing about it.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I agree with some of what you said. <BR/><BR/>Soon, though, no amount of sleight of hand is going to distract us from our woes.<BR/><BR/>And much as I celebrate any kind of humanitarian act, as more of us face those woes, it’s going to be Dana Diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971010538699830206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-86194349303420795072008-01-10T07:22:00.000-08:002008-01-10T07:22:00.000-08:00Oh Mary... that's a can of worms of such gigantic ...Oh Mary... that's a can of worms of such gigantic proportions, it's hard to wrap our head around!<BR/><BR/>There's a reason we don't hear much of the third world conditions that exist in the US (and increasingly in Canada). It's because it's very essential for the survival of capitalism and our way of life to believe in the illusion that everyone who tries hard enough can make it. So you're poor Nadinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03276662980308718870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-37251777652108136042008-01-09T22:39:00.000-08:002008-01-09T22:39:00.000-08:00Actually, I'm with Mary.I'm all for doing what cal...Actually, I'm with Mary.<BR/><BR/>I'm all for doing what calls to you and that we're all in the same boat...<BR/><BR/>However.<BR/><BR/>I liken US citizens magnanimously assisting third world countries to Moms I know who are always on the go. <BR/><BR/>They take their kids to every class imaginable intending to create some kind of wunderkind.<BR/><BR/>Then they are perplexed to find their homes Dana Diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971010538699830206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-30793987749535243412008-01-09T13:59:00.000-08:002008-01-09T13:59:00.000-08:00Points taken. I should just get my ass back to wor...Points taken. I should just get my ass back to work and do what I'm called to do!<BR/><BR/>MaryAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10725758281856344830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-92191193539385361942008-01-09T13:52:00.000-08:002008-01-09T13:52:00.000-08:00Having been to India just last year and seen child...Having been to India just last year and seen children starving, without any access to social programs, school, or even crummy housing... I agree with Erica.<BR/><BR/>People should do what they can where they can. And though I too have seen the poor, the ill and the hungry here, we at least have a social welfare system... maybe not a good one, but it exists. It doesn't exist there. <BR/><BR/>J.K. Mahalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16571812757463322242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-84515936924077252122008-01-09T11:00:00.000-08:002008-01-09T11:00:00.000-08:00I'm with Erica- we're all connected. . .I'm with Erica- we're all connected. . .Alyson Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13897651759587675373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17891930.post-19441836659945007222008-01-08T14:01:00.000-08:002008-01-08T14:01:00.000-08:00Hi Mary:Well . . . I spent years working with unwe...Hi Mary:<BR/>Well . . . <BR/><BR/>I spent years working with unwed teens mothers and their babies in one of the grimmest slums/housing projects you could ever visit. (I won a national Jefferson Award for my work . . ., my proudest achievement). I worked with mothers as young as 12 having baby #2! And I wasn't afraid to get involved in some very ugly situations. So I believe in BEING the change Erica Orloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16415925758466527671noreply@blogger.com