“Hungering For A True Thanksgiving” Amy Goodman
Posted by michyh on November 18th, 2009
“In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.”
And so begins the article by Amy Goodman http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hungering_for_a_true_thanksgiving_20091117/
Amy Goodman, truth teller in the series writes weekly at Truthdig and can be heard on Democracy Now. Here she writes a compelling piece for us to have our students consider or to share with them at their own level , depending on their ages and stages and who they are. Something I will want us all to consider as we discuss hunger, consumerism and other issues so important at this time of year is that we must also remember that our own student’s lives might be the ones we are “telling the truth about” when sharing information. Many of our own students are hungry, some are homeless. If this is true, we absolutely must include them in the conversation and let them educate us and others , giving them voice.