Has "social reformer" become an oxymoron?
At a fancy, catered-food affair for the World Social Forum meeting at the five-star Windsor Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, in January (where participants munched between discussion sessions on, among other topics, world hunger), street kids who normally beg for food money downtown raided the facility and picked the tables clean.
From a blog commenter:
Mental Acrobatics writes about drama at the World Social Forum, “The poster says, “Reduce food prices in the WSF.” A demonstration organised by a youth group from Korogocho started a loud vocal protest outside the Windsor catering tent. Korogocho is the third largest slum area in Nairobi after Kibera and Mathare. The demonstarters called for a reduction in food prices and informed everyone buying from Windsor to remember what they had gathered in Nairobi for.
How is it that underneath the skin, so many of these do-gooders are instead, members of the vulture elite? It is little wonder that so much of Europe's political aristocracy continues to try and expiate its knowing sins by inviting Islamic colonists to accelerate their collective suicide.