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Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)AmandaRuth
(3,105 posts)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)Just hard to get past the religiously driven madness that causes such benighted attitudes
Imagine the percentage of Trump lovin phobes that theyll be helping
Irony rules the world
dweller
(23,558 posts)n/t
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)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 dont take a religious pamphlet, they dont get the food.
What would Jesus do?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)This country disgusts me more everyday!
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)I don't care for some of their stands but I'm still glad they're doing this.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)betsuni
(25,119 posts)Not George Orwell in "Down and Out in Paris and London" sitting through sermons to get bread and margarine.
betsuni
(25,119 posts)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)I wonder if they'd let a gay person in their store.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)They're feeding hungry people. THAT is all that matters to me.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)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 dont like other things they have done.