Also of interest for the project proposed by Lawrence - on BBC Breakfast
today a Christian Aid rep from Afghanistan was saying that as they have
withdrawn from the country the likelihood is that in the next few weeks that
hundreds of thousands will starve.
Also a bizarre image from New York of Jeremy Bowen holding up a tee shirt
with a Bin Laden wanted dead or alive poster on it. The impartial BBC?
Also what has happened to the ethical foreign policy of New Labour?
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Popke, Jeffrey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 September 2001 18:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: the Hunger site
Greetings,
Personally, I find The Hunger Site itself to be rather objectionable. It
basically represents the commercialization of the guilt of wealthy,
technologically endowed residents of the North. It is a for-profit
enterprise, the sole purpose of which is to create a web address where
corporate sponsors can be guaranteed thousands of 'hits' by folks who
supposedly have a social conscience. The more you buy, the more you
'donate'. The new owners of the site have deleted the information about the
dollar amount they give per click - all they will say is that they donate 'a
cup of rice'. This is a few pennies. I added it up sometime last year and
figured that if you click every day for a year, you will have 'forced' the
sponsors to donate less that $5, small price to pay for launching cookies to
track the surfing habits of the lefty elite. And we of course get to
passively and vicariously assuage our consciences without ever leaving the
warm glow of our computer screen.
Cheers,
Jeff Popke
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E. Jeffrey Popke, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
Phone: (252) 328-6087
Fax: (252) 328-6054
-----Original Message-----
From: Halfacree K.H. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: [theSwanNetwork] Message to the Hunger site (please pass
on)
<perhaps this makes Tim's 'keywords' perspective even more necessary...>
-----Original Message-----
Please paste this message into a new email and send to all who you feel
might be disgusted at the Hunger sites action.
ask people to write to [log in to unmask]
demanding that they give the money raised the the worlds starving and do not
divert it to America
Pro forma message below
J
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Hi,
I have been told that you are currently giving proceeds from the Hunger
site to the Victims of NY and Washington DC
Please tell me this is not so!
While thousands starve to death around the world will you really divert the
money you raise to the worlds richest country?
While I fully understand the grief in the US, It is a nation with the
wealth and resources to help it's self. Please make sure that your good work
is not diverted and is sent to those who will actually die without it.
Yours,
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