REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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Fascinating-- you have to travel across the Atlantic to read the truth about what's going on in America today. Fortunately, on the internet, you can travel across the ocean with a click of the mouse.
Today's Observer carries two front-page stories which graphically reveal the reality of today's America: apartheid and concentration camps. "US in denial as poverty rises" talks about the symbolism involved in New Haven's tent city, set up when the homeless shelter was closed recently, being right next to Yale, a bastion of power and privilege. It gives a lot of facts and statistics about poverty in the midst of plenty, most notably this one: one in six children in the U.S. are poor. Capitalist child abuse!
Another story, "Distant voices tell of life for Britons caged in Camp Delta," tells of hunger strikes and suicides at "the most secretive and infamous prison in the world" at Guantanamo Bay. The inhuman brutality and barbarism of "Camp X-Ray" will live in infamy forever.
www.observer.co.uk
Today's Observer carries two front-page stories which graphically reveal the reality of today's America: apartheid and concentration camps. "US in denial as poverty rises" talks about the symbolism involved in New Haven's tent city, set up when the homeless shelter was closed recently, being right next to Yale, a bastion of power and privilege. It gives a lot of facts and statistics about poverty in the midst of plenty, most notably this one: one in six children in the U.S. are poor. Capitalist child abuse!
Another story, "Distant voices tell of life for Britons caged in Camp Delta," tells of hunger strikes and suicides at "the most secretive and infamous prison in the world" at Guantanamo Bay. The inhuman brutality and barbarism of "Camp X-Ray" will live in infamy forever.
www.observer.co.uk
