" My name is Andrea Walker. Every year, the annual death toll for starvation is more than the South Asia tsunami and Hurricanne Katrina combined. Every 3 seconds a child dies from hunger. That means that everytime you take a breath, a child suffering from starvation takes their last. Fortunately, there are things we can do to help end this
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you know why africa is fucked up? mothafuckin' colonialism and apartheid, baby. so while westerners sit back and ignore/complain about/make fun of the problems they have on their continent (no, it's not a country) they are failing to realize that it's actually their fucked up politics and skewed sense of morality that got those people into the mess they're in right now.
you think they aren't still feeling the effects of british imperialism over there? it's not called colonialism anymore, but rather "importation," which is why today people starve in india and africa while former grainaries export tulips and dog food to europe and people in south america starve while former subsistence farms export coffee to the u.s. to fill americans' caffeine addiction.
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I've given up talking to my classes. I thought that it was a good idea because if they all gave a dollar we good feed some one for 30 days. But they just mock me. It's painful because I care so much about this and I've been taking this personally. I'm never uncomfortable when speaking in front of a group, but they managed to make me feel like an idiot. I feel like I've failed.
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