Email 4

 

From PE

I have e-mailed you before, but once again: thank God, Allah, Fate, the Cosmos, lady luck, or more appropriatly your hard work, that this web-site exists. There are other progressive sites, but yours, is the most accessible, has the best and most inspiring quotes, and most importantly, offers information about most of the peices to this Orwellian puzzle we live in.

I am curious how this web site evolved to it's present state. Did you start out intending to give information to would be travelers only? Perhaps a little dose of reality before their journey? Whether coincidental or not, I love the fact that an unwitting citizen who is looking for travel information might stumble onto this site and potentially be transformed into an independent thinker. I also fantasize that the FBI and CIA waste untold numbers of man hours and dollars of our tax revenues monitoring this site (and others) and worrying. I hope they lose lots of sleep. Hi you jerks!

Don't you ever die Steve, I don't know if I could retain my sanity without the occasional transfusion of it I get from visiting your site.

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Steve's reply

Thank you for your kind words.

I started the TWT website to provide travel info, but as I read, and became more aware of the disastrous impact of US foreign policy in the Third World, the corporate control of American media and the propaganda we are fed as "news", and the deterioration of American democracy, the content of the TWT website changed. Travel info is now a very small part. Few visitors now come for travel; the vast majority arrive while searching for one of the many subjects/issues included on the site. Some visitors, like you, come back again and again. Most probably come only once and do not stay long, but they nevertheless are exposed, however briefly, to a non-mainstream-media point of view.

I plan to continue adding material to the site; it has become something of an obsession. The limits are my reading speed and my time. There is certainly no paucity of material.

I am sure the website is on a few significant email lists. Maybe some who come to the site will learn things that get them to realize how immoral and rotten U.S. foreign policy really is. That is my hope.

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From SR

i have some comments, but this email has a happy ending... this is an excerpt of a letter from your "email third world traveler has received..."

"Most Americans would get sick if they knew what their government is doing is
their name and how these policies are impacting Americans here at home and
others around the world. And they would be outraged if they began to understand that most of the news is propaganda, designed not to provide the truth but to distract people and to control their ideas. It is the responsibility of those who are knowledgeable to demand a free and open press, to work to reform our system, and to fight for true democracy and social and economic justice in the world. We don't see Chomsky, Parenti, Herman and Zinn, or hear them, or read them because those in power don't want us to. Therefore we must inform ourselves, we must inform others, and then we must demand change"

i only briefly logged on to this site, and i think it is very socially conscious... however, i am struck by one immediate, pesky problem: have you ever read michele foucalult? a french philosopher was he, wiht many interesting theories on power. he pointed out that the typical belief is just what was written above.... that the rich have power over the poor and ignorant, that there is a center of power in the rich. more realistically, he explains a system where there are many centers of power, where both the rich and the poor are part of a large system.... the previous idea assumes that if the poor/ignorant somehow overhthrew/figured out what the big bad rich guys were up to, they could shift power by somehow replacing the rich. [it's as if we think that the powerful people sit on a throne and if only we could get them off that throne, we'd be okay].

sorry, this is so simplified. the only thing is that i don't think it's only the government that helps keep people ignorant, it is the people themselves... the entire system is built for gridlock, ask any political science major... and people often times come home from a hard day's work and allow themselves to be fooled...

most people DO have a vague idea about the really fucked up things our government does.... most people know that there is a central intelligence
organization, they simply think it has no relevance to them. same thing with our cooperation with the nazis... it isn't some mind blowing secret that we assisted the nazis during world war two... but it's "in the past" as some people say. the only famous people to speak out again how fast technology is growing and taking over have been the luddites and the unabomber. not good press. and most people that hear information about how the governemnt controls us immediately think "conspiracy theory" and marginalize these concepts as fringe alarmist, crazy, wacko, subversive.

i'm sorry to ramble, because i do have a point. i went back to your site and found a more relavant quote to begin with:

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault."

Jonathan Kozol is right on with his notion that we sit back and pretend that none of this business concerns us. i'm a big phillip slater fan.. have you read "the pursuit of loneliness?" he has a lot of the same ideas, and the first big problem is making the average American, not just the activists, realize that all of this stuff IS RELEVANT to their lives. otherwise they are just going to change the channel or log off this site when the info gets too harsh.

with that in mind, let me tell you what i am up to.

in a few weeks i will tell you more, but i am embarking on a project that will hopefully open some eyes. i feel that the type of social consciesness so plentiful on your site is wonderful, but it is not packaged in a way that is going to bring in the people who really need to get the information. your site has probably been frequented by many scholars and college grads... this kind of info needs to be seen by all. you can't force people into this... but you can redirect them subtly. this does not involve getting sponsors or selling out. but i wouldn't want to direct people to your site without your permission, so let me know if you want people directed to your site. i'll be able to give you more details in a few weeks, i hope.

who knows. we'll see. i hope i can help.
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Steve's reply

Thank you for your comments.

I agree with Jonothan Kozol. Those of us who are informed, are part of the problem, unless we try to change things. And, the uninformed have to be informed by us, as best we can

I agree that most people know something is rotten, but do nothing. It's the "good" German syndrome. As long as people are doing OK and the "sludge is not coming over our doorstep", we look the other way. It is human nature I guess.

But, I disagree that most people know what the government is doing in their name. Up until 10 years ago I didn't. Now I do, but no thanks to the sources from which I used to get most of my news. I sympathize with Americans who have problems getting the truth from the mainstream media. I tried. Then I gave up and sought other sources of information. It was not easy. I had read Newsweek and Time, watched CNN and Network news, and even read the Christian Science Monitor newspaper. But, it was not until I began to read the independent progressive press, and read books by Chomsky, Zinn, Parenti, etc., that I realized how little I really knew about what my country was up to in the world. Now, I read all of the time, and I contlinue to learn "everything I didn't really want to know".

Most Americans come home from work, watch sitcoms and CNN or NBC and then go to bed. They never have a chance to learn the real nature of the corporate agenda and America's role in keeping the poor poor for the sake of business profits. They will never "have-a- clue".

Those in power thrive on the system as it is. They know the system's rules and they don't want them changed. And, they will do whatever they have to to keep those who want to change the rules form doing so. So much for justice, morality, ethics and human rights.

So, those that want to make progressive changes in the system are marginalized, made to feel like wierdos. It is effective.

But, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. "

This website is my protest.

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From NR

How interesting. Let me give you a little background to why I write this letter. My career goal has always been to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. I have focused very hard on my studies to work towards this goal. I was looking online for information about the CIA, when I stumbled into your site. It brought a question to me. Where are your priorities?

First off, what you want to do, what you want to post, what propaganda you want to spread, that is none of my business. Your rights and mine are protected by the Constitution, and I shall not infringe on that.

But I do have a right to question. You are making your site out to make this world a better all-knowing place. Now, I'm guessing CIA's record most likely isn't completely clean, but what are you going to gain by making these things public, most of them myths passed on to anyone who takes these things as Gospel? You are an American.

Without this country, you could not sit there and bring down one of the organizations that guarantees you that freedom. What do you want from your country? We live in a Democratic society that is FAR SUPERIOR to any other nation in the world. If you have problems with how things are, move to Moscow. Then we can see your opinions of this country. Would you rather the government forced its issues and its practices down your throat?

That exact system was employed by Stalin and Hitler, and we both know how successful they turned out to be.

I just am curious why anyone who has the right to bash the American government, would. To me it's simple hypocrisy. But what do I know? I'm only a free American, and it is my goal in life to keep this free, so you can bash me for my future line of work.
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Steve's reply

Thank you for your comments. Let me give you a little background. I am a retired professional, raised by a single mother - my father died when I was 2 years old. I have taught in graduate school and I was in private practice for 26 years. I do not have a chip on my shoulder. America has been good to me.

I was raised to believe that America was the greatest place on earth, that it valued truth and democracy, and that it stood up for the oppressed and unfree around the world.

The Vietnam War opened my eyes to another America, one that oppressed and exploited, and lied about it. I took part in a demonstration against the War in 1971, at age 31, the first time I ever did so.

I began to question what I had been taught, and started to read books and articles that offered a different view of America, one that dissented from the mainstream conventional wisdom, one that criticized and disagreed with many U.S. government policies. I came to realize that I had been lied to all of my life. That although America is big, and strong, and wealthy, it has used its power and its wealth to do some very nasty things to poor and defenseless people, in order to protect and enhance U.S. business interests around the world - behind American policies are always American business interests.

I came to understand that my government's vows to support democracy in the world were phony. That, in my name, the U.S. government supported the meanest dictators and tyrants, taught torture and psychological warfare to soldiers to use on their own people, undermined and helped overthrow democratically elected governments, set up death squads, assassinated leaders, and consistently tried to prevent any and all social reform movements in the Third World from succeeding. Our government's fear, backed by U.S. business, has always been that if one reform movement did succeed in improving the lives of the majority of its people, others in the Third World might try a different, non-U.S. model, to better the lives of the majority of their people.

I have come to the conclusion that most Americans are good, decent people, and that they would not support most of the horrid things the U.S. does in the world. I realize that most of those who work in the U.S. government or for government agencies, do their jobs and carry out the directives of their superiors with the best of intentions, because they feel that in doing so they are strengthening democracy, helping people, and making their country and the world a better place. I have come to the conclusion that they are often wrong.

I have been exposed to patriotic pomp and rhetoric all of my life - the speeches, the flag-waving, the national anthem, the parades. I accepted it and believed it as most Americans do. But, now, I feel betrayed. I realize that the values that the American people are taught and the policies of the American government are not the same. That while we are saluting the flag, our government is teaching torture techniques to death squads in Guatemala and El Salvador to use on their own people. While we are singing about the land of the free and the home of the brave, U.S. soldiers are supporting dictators who rob and immiserate their countries, transferring billions of U.S. aid dollars and their countrymen's' hard earned money to personal bank accounts in New York and Zurich. While American families watch Fourth of July parades, women and children in Angola or Indonesia are being killed by U.S.-trained soldiers using U.S.-supplied weapons. While we care for our children, sheltering and protecting them, the U.S.- backed "structural adjustment' programs of the IMF and World Bank, demand that poor children in Africa and Latin America go without health care, without food, without educations so that loans made years ago to U.S.-supported dictators, are repaid to wealthy New York banks.

I don't fault you for believing in America, for joining the CIA, for working for your country overseas. At one time I believed as you do. But, don't fault me for disagreeing with your vision of this country. You like America the way it is. I don't. I think it could be better.

I don't have to be a "commie" to disagree and dissent. If no one tried to eliminate injustice in this country we would still have slavery and child labor.

My website is a small attempt to inform people about another side of this country's policies, and to help them act, not to destroy America, but to make its policies more humane, more just , more democratic.

Look at my website, think about the many voices included there who offer another view of American policies and American history. These are not my ideas, but the ideas of many people most of whom you will never hear about or see in the mainstream media, because the people at the top are afraid their ideas might confuse people and make them think "out-of-the-box".

The American Revolution was started by American's who disagreed with the policies of their government, thought those policies were unjust and wanted to change them. American history is filled with events, actions and ideas that led to changes that made America a better place. That's the American way. In a very small way that's what I am trylng to do.

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NR's reply

I thank you for opening me up to a new side of this issue. You come off as someone with an intelligent approach to this issue, compared to some of the lunatics out there. I'm sorry if I came off as rude, but I know I speak for both of us when I say that I hope your information is false.

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From Angela G.

I was overwhelmed with your site! This is one of the best I have seen for uncovering some truths re: human rights, government actions, transnational corporations, etc. I am really impressed!

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From Ian S.

Just been looking at you site on the internet.... I'ts fantastic..... Printed off over 100 pages....

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From Mark W

Truely one of the best sites on the Web. So much truth. So big of an indicment of the whole current economic, political system. Keep up the excellent work. I wish I could be more involved in some way.

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From LL

Just wanted to express my appreciation for your Third World Traveler web-site. It's one of the best sites of it's kind that I've seen. I especially appreciate the Howard Zinn page.

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From Chris

I'd just like to say that I am thoroughly impressed with your website as a newcomer to it. I don't think I've ever found such an in-depth website about exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. I used to spend a lot of time looking for information on this or that, and now, most of it is readily available to me. I want to thank you for the invaluable service that this site serves and wish to extend good luck to you in the future.

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From RH

Like all states, the United States has a multitude of sins, but you and your kind backed the tyranny of the Soviet Union for seventy years, and hate Reagan for having led the United States to victory in the Cold War. The US Army Air Corps burnt hundreds of thousands of 'innocent' civilians to death during the Second World War - and we rightly do not apologize for that either. This time around, Athens won and I am glad it did. Your kind would have betrayed Greece to the Persians.

As to the Serbs. the have the right of every sovereign state to supress treason and rebellion. The Nazis were indicted for what they did to their neighbors, not to their own Germans. Read what Sheridan did to the Shenandoah valley in 1864 during our own Civil War, and you will get a perspective on putting down an ethnic uprising. Nasty, yes, but "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it". - William Tecumsah Sherman.

P.S. Ain't it ironic your president Clinton nominated Hookbrooke, one of Marcos' strongest supporters? Pat Derian isn't even a footnote now. How come no one's mentioning this?

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Steve's reply

First, I never backed the tyranny of the Soviet Union. The USSR was a totalitarian nightmare put in place by Stalin to force the USSR into the 20th century as an industrialized power, in response to the threat by the European countries and the US. Stalin succeeded, but the price the Russian people have had to pay is monumental.

Second, Reagan didn't lead the US to a great victory in the Cold War. He helped bankrupt a Third World country that had nuclear weapons and lots of poor, miserable people. The USSR was already a sick country in 1989, and in a last dying gasp, it commited economic suicide trying to keep up militarily with an American economy 10 + times the size of its own. And the Russian people are the ones who are suffering as a result. The life expectancy in Russia has dropped 15 to 20 years since its economy collapsed. The economy is one-quarter its previous size.The country is a gangster state - the Russian mafia has more money than the State. The army is not being paid. Nuclear weapons are not being maintained. The environmental damage is unmeasurable.

The Cold War days may look good to us in a few years as China moves along the same path to industrialization, and world pollution. Or if China and Russia perceive the U.S. as a threat to their countries and to their "manhood", we may be faced with a confrontation between us and the two-of-them.

If you think the world is better off today, now that the Cold War is over, look around. More people are poor, more people are exploited, more people are dying, more people are going hungry. Of course, now that the "evil empire" is dead, we are being alerted about the future "yellow peril" (China).

If Americans ever wake up, they will realize that they have been taken for a very expensive ride to nowhere. As middle-class wages stagnate, as workers are down-sized, as kids kill kids, as cities fall-apart and jails fill-up, the weapons-manufacturers are making a hell-of-a-lot of money building missles and bombers, then sellling them to our Third-World-dictator-pals who make war on their own people. Then, the Lockheeds and Rockwells come back to their patrons in Congress and the White House (and the U.S. taxpayers) and say, "Gosh, "Pakistan" has these great new weapons that we sold them and made a ton of money on; now we need to build bigger and better weapons to protect the American people from the weapons we sold to "Pakistan"." It is the greatest scam in the history of the world.

Finally, the Nuremberg Trials. Hitler came to power as the Chancellor of Germany in democratic elections, during the terrible economic times after Germany's defeat in WWI. While he committed his atrocities, the German people looked the other way - they didn't want to know what was going on. Neither do Americans. As long as we are doing OK, we don't want to know what our government is doing to others around the world.

As for those "bad" Nazis, ITT, Ford, and other US-corporations worked with Hitler to build military vehicles and improve the telephone system in Nazi Germany with the knowledge of the US government.

If there were another Nuremberg, US presidents, secretaries of State and Defense, Pentagon generals, National Security Agency and CIA officers, and many other knowledgeable government officials would certainly be tried and convicted for "crimes against humanity -- in 1965, 500,000 Indonesians were killed in a bloody U.S.-supported coup by General Suharto; in 1975, while Ford and Kissinger winked, Indonesian President Suharto invaded East Timor, killing 200,000 people, one-third of the population; in Guatemala, over 30 years, the US-trained and supplied military made war on its people, killing 150,00 to 200,000 Guatemalans; in Chile, in 1973, Kissinger and Nixon arranged the overthrow of its democratically-elected president Salavador Allende by US-supported Augusto Pinochet. Allende ended up dead; in southeast Asia, the US fought an illegal war (war was never declared) and bombed Cambodian and Laotian peasants into the Stone Age; and in Iraq, our favorite "rogue state", since 1991, more than 1,000,000 Iraqis have died from US-led sanctions on food, medicine and sanitation equipment, including over 500,000 chiildren . Twice as many Iraqi children die each year than prior to the sanctions. What was once the best health care system in the Middle East is now in shambles. And, Saddam, "our Hitler", is still in power. If we want to get rid of Saddam, how come the only ones doing the suffering are innocent civilians, especially children. All of these glorious 'victories" silently supported by "good" Americans - in the the same way "good" Germans supported Hitler's atrocities.

I could go on (I have already). I am neither a communist nor a socialist. I don' t want to destroy this country or our system. Americans need to wake up to the reality of what their government does in their name, and begin to say to their elected officials, "If you act like Nazis, people around the world will see you as Nazis. If we support your policies, out of ignorance or out of selfishness, we will be no better than the "good" Germans who ignored the Holocaust."

Steve

PS Clinton is no hero of mine; neither is Holbrooke.

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From Pupship

Your agenda is unclear to me. You say you want a government that serves "the majority"; does this mean that a person in a minority should NOT be served? In what way would policies be determined and executed? Would the people vote on every issue? That sounds impractical, but if that isn't the case, then who would decide what policies would be enacted and how? And how would they be financed?

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What kind of ethics do you subscribe to? Most of what you talk about is humanitarian and although I differ somewhat with some of the particulars, it's safe to say we both despise dictatorship and lies.You're probably busy, but if you don't mind, what is your stand on:

Technological progress?
Free market?
Bureaucracy?
Socialism?
Capitalism?
Individual rights vs. collective benefits at their expense?
And: how do you personally define and understand theword "happiness"?

Also, concerning environmentalism, all I've really heard has been claims and polemics from all sides of the issue with no accompanying evidence, and I am suspicious of the EPA as I am of any other government agency with an indeterminate agenda. Being conscientiously skeptical about any claim anyone makes about anything with no evidence, I have chosen to suspend judgement until I can find some hard facts about it. Know where to go concerning that?

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Steve's reply

I'm not too busy to discuss the future of democracy in America and world survival. If I had answers to all of the important questions, I would probably be even busier than I now am. But I do have some answers. Here they are.

You ask about my stand on technological progress. I have no stand. Technological progress will continue to occur. The real question is: Will advances in technology be used to better the lives of human beings and to improve conditions on this planet, or will technology outstrip morality and common sense and become the undoing of our species and maybe even our world.

As far as the " free market" is concerned, it is neither free nor fair. When transnational corporations are subsidized with tax breaks, pay almost no taxes and enjoy advantageous government trade preferences, the system is not free. Transnational corporations competing with subsistance farmers is not fair. In the "free market", Third World poor are supposed to compete against technologically sophisticated First World countries, and succeed. This is not likely. A more likely scenario is that industrialized nations and their transnational corporations will control the lives and the livelihoods of the vast majority in the underdeveloped countries of the world. It is 21st century colonialism -- the powerful controlling the weak, exploiting them and and making them weaker, so that we in the West may maintain our lifestyles. The Third World is being asked to fight with both hands tied behind its back, and it is losing, badly.

Bureaucracy is not exclusive to government. Try reaching someone at Citibank or Monsanto or AT&T with a complaint or a problem, and you will find a private enterprise bureaucracy equal to that of government. The difference is that if you are unhappy with government you can call your Congressman, or you can vote him out of office; if you are unhappy with PG&E or with your corporate conglomerate HMO, you are out of luck. These are totalitarian institutions that respond only to power. In our society power follows money, and we have neither.

Socialism? It has been placed together with liberalism, pacificism, and communism, and catagorized with Hitler and the Devil. Our capitalist system will tolerate no competition, no matter how weak and impotent, from other social philosophies. All of these ideologies have some good points, some positive ideas, but Americans will never be allowed to evaluate them for themselves. The ruling elite of our society have a great fear that if we are exposed to any system that offers a humane society which treats people fairly and provides a caring environment for people to raise their children and live their lives, they might prefer it to our present survival-of-the-fittest system. The ruling elite will not take that chance. They have too much to loose. So they keep Americans ignorant, propagandize against any other possibitlies, and control us all. Socialism is not all good and it is not all bad. We should be given the facts and be allowed to choose the best from any system.

Capitalism. What can I say. It is our system and it has treated many of us well, including myself. I am a have, not a have-not. But, the system is inherently unfair. Those without the right families, the right neighborhoods, the right educations or the right opportunities, are out of luck. It is a winner-take-all society; there are some winners and many losers. Capitalism with a human face might be a good system, but we will never know, because the goal of capitalism as it is now practiced is to allow individuals to make as much money as possible; to accumulate as many things as possible. That's it. There is no social component; there is no goal for the betterment of the society and its people. "Capitalists" do not consider the quality of people's lives, their struggles or their needs, as their responsibilities. They concern themselves only with the bottom-line. Just look at the stock market -- the altar where those who worship the religion of money pray. Corporate stocks rise when corporations fire employees. Those fired may be unable to feed their families or pay their mortgages, but stockholders and corporate executives cheer because the stock market went up. People have become cogs in the capitalist wheel. They are being chewed up and spit out, while those at the top cheer. As now instituted, our capitalistic system is sick. When a system values stocks and profits over people, it is time for a change.

We are a country founded by the individual. People fought to survive and thrive and the country grew and prospered. That was then, this is now. We are a different society than we were in the 1600s, 1700s, and the 1800s. Our country has wealth and is secure. There are no real threats (except those manufactured by our government and the military-industrial complex to frighten the public). It is time that our capitalist system changes to reflect the changes in the world. We are on top. We can protect ourselves from any threats and remain strong, and still build a caring society that values people and nature, and no longer exploits the weak and vulnerable in the world. Ours is a system that has forgotten its reason for being -- not just to accumulate, but to provide a just and humane society for people. It's time not to give away our country's wealth but to to share it. Capitalism with a human face is what we should be striving for. It is time for corporations and individuals to say. "I have enough. Let others have some." But, this is a very foreign concept in America today.

Happiness is another story. Our society's goal should not be to make people happy. No one and no system can do that. Our society's goal however should be to level the playing-field, give people a chance to make themselves happy. A decent place to live, a job that pays a living wage, health care, an opportunity for a good education, a system that taxes based on a person's ability to pay, an electoral system that guarantees one person one vote, not one dollar one vote, a society that doesn't just pay lip-service to children and families but actually helps them grow and live lives of dignity.

Am I asking too much? I don't think so.

I am an American. I believe things can be better. That's how I was raised. That's the American way.

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From Christina N

My parents were missionaries in Brazil when I was very young. I was only five years old when we went, and ten years old when we returned. The impression it made on me, however, to see other kids my age starving to death while I was healthy and well-fed has been nearly an unbearable burden to live with. I am twenty-three, now, but the pain I saw is still so close to me, I am searching desperately for a way to help the problem of poverty in Brazil, even thought it is such a huge problem. I feel a little helpless because it is so overwhelming, but I have this idea about wanting to open some sort of channel from the United States to Brazil. What I need is someone or some organization in Brazil to whom I can directly send food, clothing, first aid kits, blankets, or whatever else they might need. I need this to be someone who can get the materials directly to the people. I realize that the world does not have so much of a food problem as it has a distribution problem. If I can set up some sort of partnership with someone I will work on rounding up materials here in the U.S.. What I need now is to find someone I can ship the materials to who can then distribute it to the people.

If you can help me with this, it would be PARAMOUNTLY significant to me. If you cannot, but have names of people who can help me, or suggestions of how to go about achieving this goal, please, please, please tell me. Please, please respond to this note, even if it is to steer me in another direction. I want so much to help people. I just need help finding out how I can. Thank you so much for your time.

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Steve's reply

I don't have that information but I will give some resources that may be able to help.

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/
2017 Mission Street #303
San Francisco, California 94110
phone (415) 255-7296 fax (415) 255-7498
email info@globalexchange.org


The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA
Tel: (510) 654-4400
Fax: (510) 654-4551
E-mail: foodfirst@igc.apc.org
URL: www.foodfirst.org

Oxfam America
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/

Marin Interfaith Task Force on Latin America (no web site)
415-924-3227

Good luck.


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