Marina of the Zabbaleen

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2 Responses to “Marina of the Zabbaleen”

• Pamela Says:
  December 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

  Wow what can we do? Is there some way we can help these people? Give us some ideas!

• Rich Awn Says:
  January 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

  Thanks Pamela! Tough to say what we can do to help change a class-based economic social condition. The Egyptian people, especially in Cairo, have relied on the efforts of the Zabbaleen for a quite a long time and much of their struggles have become programmed into their social strata. As far as the catastrophe concerning the senseless slaughter of most of Egypt’s pigs, the misguided so-called “solutions” to the H1N1 virus the world over have caused more problems than the virus itself. We can only urge our leaders, both governmental and non, to promote rational education of disease control and direct aid that integrates with the cultures of the people rather than enslave them further with imposed selfish ideals.

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