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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1970894" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>my conclusion is on one hand they want to donate their money to a certain kind of charity which maintains the status quo. and on the other hand its a PR job to improve UPS image.</p><p></p><p>so it could be worse. they could donate nothing. but it could be alot better.</p><p></p><p>to quote public enemy "dont believe the hype"</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_and_bullock_charity_and_revolution_at_christmastime_20141227" target="_blank">http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_and_bullock_charity_and_revolution_at_christmastime_20141227</a></p><p></p><p>“Charity has become the instrument by which justice is denied throughout the society,” Hedges tells Bullock and host Paul Jay. “We are stripping away civil services, destroying basic programs which sustain the poorest of the poor, because charity is supposed to take it over. We’re watching large corporations, which are predatory, justify themselves through acts of charity or philanthropy. And these corporations at their heart are disemboweling the country, are creating untold misery for the vulnerable, not only domestically, but globally. And so charity becomes something that is kind of unrelenting as a kind of ideology, because it’s a mask for the denial of justice and for the justification of predatory capitalism.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1970894, member: 56035"] my conclusion is on one hand they want to donate their money to a certain kind of charity which maintains the status quo. and on the other hand its a PR job to improve UPS image. so it could be worse. they could donate nothing. but it could be alot better. to quote public enemy "dont believe the hype" [URL]http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_and_bullock_charity_and_revolution_at_christmastime_20141227[/URL] “Charity has become the instrument by which justice is denied throughout the society,” Hedges tells Bullock and host Paul Jay. “We are stripping away civil services, destroying basic programs which sustain the poorest of the poor, because charity is supposed to take it over. We’re watching large corporations, which are predatory, justify themselves through acts of charity or philanthropy. And these corporations at their heart are disemboweling the country, are creating untold misery for the vulnerable, not only domestically, but globally. And so charity becomes something that is kind of unrelenting as a kind of ideology, because it’s a mask for the denial of justice and for the justification of predatory capitalism.” [/QUOTE]
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