Samantha Power becomes first US official to confirm famine, while aid workers decry continuing lack of help

However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been the worst but far from an isolated incident.

The planned coordination centre, whenever it is finished, may not be sufficient to address this fundamental obstacle to delivering food, as long as much of Gaza is a free fire zone, aid workers argue.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    If you never have time for these things, someone that does will make the decisions for you. That’s the harsh truth. If every MAGAt can make it to Jan 6, I think we can at least write our representatives. Or out aside a single day to go and protest. We’re all here all day on these socials, you could use that to organize like I try at [email protected]

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      You said protest every day. With a group of people. Now you’re saying a single day to go protest.

      Also, the only social community for my state on Lemmy barely ever has any posts and I don’t think anyone there is from my town anyway. And I have no friends here. So how am I supposed to organize this?

      As far as writing him, as I said- he doesn’t give a shit what his constituents think. He keeps getting re-elected because of the R after his name and this is Indiana.

      I get that you want this to have an effect, but it won’t. Not every representative gives a shit or will ever give a shit. It accomplishes nothing in those cases.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Protesting does work. Remember the Civil Rights Movement? Did that look easy? Were demands instantly met? It takes time and effort, water cuts through rock with persistence, not force. I get you don’t want this to work, but history has shown it can and often times does. Go forth, or don’t. But don’t complain about those of us that do just because the affects are not immediate.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Protesting can work. That doesn’t mean it always works.

          Protesting works when you do it at the right time in the right place with the right people.

          There is no time when protesting at Larry Buschon’s Evansville office is the right place and, again, I don’t know anyone.

          I’m not sure why even the last part is not an issue to you, but I would think that one person standing outside his office with a protest sign about Israel wouldn’t exactly start a major movement. I just looked up his office on Google. It isn’t even a prominent place. You’d miss it if you didn’t know it was there.

          This isn’t marching over the bridge in Selma you’re talking about, this is a silly waste of time. I have been in many protest marches, but I’m not going to waste over four hours of my time just to get to a place almost no one recognizes alone with a protest sign. It will not do a thing about Israel. Not a single thing. It will not save one single Palestinian life. I might as well stand in front of a Menards.