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betsuni

(25,119 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:04 AM Mar 2018

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This message was self-deleted by its author (Original Post) betsuni Mar 2018 OP
homo-sex-you-alls need not apply Gabi Hayes Mar 2018 #1
yeah, very conflicted about this AmandaRuth Mar 2018 #3
Same here, actually Gabi Hayes Mar 2018 #4
feed the hungry dweller Mar 2018 #2
I'm reminded of a woman I knew in the 1990's left-of-center2012 Mar 2018 #5
He wouldn't be handing out pamphlets, he'd be handing out food in a Christ-like way. democratisphere Mar 2018 #7
... left-of-center2012 Mar 2018 #10
THIS. democratisphere Mar 2018 #11
Where the hell is the great US government on this one?! democratisphere Mar 2018 #6
Good for them. Feed the hungry. Hekate Mar 2018 #8
Good for them Raine Mar 2018 #9
Do they make you sit through a sermon before you can buy food? NightWatcher Mar 2018 #12
It's a grocery store. betsuni Mar 2018 #14
What the hell is with the negative comments? betsuni Mar 2018 #13
Because of the SA's history of discrimination crazycatlady Mar 2018 #15
Some people have to inject politics into everything. MicaelS Mar 2018 #16
Thats a great plan to address that issue Lee-Lee Mar 2018 #17

AmandaRuth

(3,105 posts)
3. yeah, very conflicted about this
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:29 AM
Mar 2018

salvation army is horrible no doubt, but the lines out the door on food bank days are heartbreaking up in my area. there is real need in rural america, i just wish it was a different org doing this

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
4. Same here, actually
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:40 AM
Mar 2018

Just hard to get past the religiously driven madness that causes such benighted attitudes

Imagine the percentage of Trump lovin ‘phobes that they’ll be helping

Irony rules the world

dweller

(23,558 posts)
2. feed the hungry
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:12 AM
Mar 2018

n/t

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
5. I'm reminded of a woman I knew in the 1990's
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:49 AM
Mar 2018

She ran a church group in the U.S. southwest that took food baskets to the poor on local reservations.

I overheard her instructing some of the volunteers:
“If they don’t take a religious pamphlet, they don’t get the food.”

What would Jesus do?

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
7. He wouldn't be handing out pamphlets, he'd be handing out food in a Christ-like way.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:56 AM
Mar 2018

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
10. ...
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 09:48 AM
Mar 2018

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
11. THIS.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:31 AM
Mar 2018

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
6. Where the hell is the great US government on this one?!
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:47 AM
Mar 2018

This country disgusts me more everyday!

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
8. Good for them. Feed the hungry.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 03:04 AM
Mar 2018

Raine

(30,540 posts)
9. Good for them
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 05:16 AM
Mar 2018

I don't care for some of their stands but I'm still glad they're doing this.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
12. Do they make you sit through a sermon before you can buy food?
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:32 AM
Mar 2018

betsuni

(25,119 posts)
14. It's a grocery store.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:54 AM
Mar 2018

Not George Orwell in "Down and Out in Paris and London" sitting through sermons to get bread and margarine.

betsuni

(25,119 posts)
13. What the hell is with the negative comments?
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:46 AM
Mar 2018

I don't know anything about the Salvation Army, I just know that poor people need food. Hunger is no joke. I decided this year not to ever refer to myself as an atheist again, don't want to be associated with people who ... never mind.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
15. Because of the SA's history of discrimination
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 11:22 AM
Mar 2018

I wonder if they'd let a gay person in their store.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
16. Some people have to inject politics into everything.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 11:25 AM
Mar 2018

They're feeding hungry people. THAT is all that matters to me.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
17. Thats a great plan to address that issue
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 11:46 AM
Mar 2018

I have mixed feeling in SA given their history, but when it comes down to it they are running with it and making those happen when nobody else is.

If nothing else this could be a model to be copied and emulated in more areas by local activists.

And if you do it with a progressive group you can combine it with more advocacy. Make sure your workers are unionized. Have a meeting/conference room you make available for community activists to use in the facility. For co-ops with other groups doing this for better buying power. Use the buying power of the co-op as it grows to force change on from the suppliers in how fake workers are paid. Support local farmers. Provide starter kits to let local residents hve small gardens and buy from them anything they grow that is more than they need.

So much potential in this kind of plan if you take it beyond a group like SA doing it.

But since they are doing it now and nobody else seems to be I will not cast stones at them when discussing this plan just because I don’t like other things they have done.

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