Don't Ask How to Feed People, Ask How to End Poverty

[daredtowork]

4. We can't have real community until

the poor are actually participating in the community. The city where I live had the lowest voter turnout since the 1970s, and the City Council here is like a 1% scab on big poverty wound. They totally don't recognize how horrific poverty is for people in this area - they just go right on with their gentry-pleasing agendas, carefully plotting to keep themselves in power. There is no integration of politics in everyday lives at all, and my guess is that it's because people are so exhausted by everyday BS that they can't even deal with another thing. Politics is going to have to come to them. And not through email spam and phone calls: through block parties and asking people what *they* need.