Monday, December 20, 2004

Crumbs from Our Table

Direct Action for Third World Misery

“Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”
-U2, “Crumbs From Your Table” (from “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb")

Charles Bukowski once said: “As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.”

To that list, we can add how we tend to forget how privileged we are. As we walk around consumed with our typically self-imposed problems, how often do we consider those born without a hint of hope?

Yesterday, my wife and I went to see “Born Into Brothels
(http://bornintobrothels.com) at the amazing Film Forum theater in New York’s West Village (http://www.filmforum.com/films/born.htm). The children are unforgettable...but this is not a feel-good Pollyanna fable of rich and poor. I’m not sure when and if it will be playing nationwide, but “Born Into Brothels” is a must-see documentary...a film that will leave you trying (in vain) to make sense of your life of relative privilege.

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http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz12192004/

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