The Black Panther Party was able to provide for hungry children through its free breakfast program. It was targeted by the state because of its capacity to meet people’s basic needs.
To subvert the ruthless repression the state inflicts on us we’ll need to create our own dual power systems for our communities.
Investing in things like this are such no-brainers. Not only so they have great ROI via improving educational outcomes, they’re the right thing to do. A child’s lack of food is not their fault, but their parents and communitys.
Not quite sure if you’re critiquing my comment or not? I said “parents and community”, obviously some parents struggle to be able to put food on the table but I’ve unfortunately also known parents who despite being able to, do not provide for their children. Regardless, when parents fail the community must step up, schools included which can and should in turn be funded to better be able to provide these services.
California has free breakfast and lunch for all public and charter school kids. Before covid and early on districts started doing it but now it is state wide.
If you think the reason we don’t have a federal lunch program for schools is because we are giving money to Ukraine to defend themselves from a foreign aggressor, I don’t know where to begin honestly. I guess I should start with “the war started 18mo ago”?
No, the issue is war in general and the extent to which our own people’s needs are neglected because of it.
Ukraine is just another excuse for war profiteers to profit. What galls me the most about Ukraine, however, is reading these stories about the monstrous ways our own needs are neglected in order to fund a war that isn’t even our own.
You’re the one who spot-focused Ukraine so frankly none of our responses should surprise you.
We can easily afford to feed kids. Our bloated military (which I do not support btw) has nothing to do with it. There is no political will to do it. The cost would be negligible in the grand scheme of our budget. You’re framing it as a balance thing - to pay for X we have to cut Y - but that’s not how the federal budget works at all. By your argument i could go “if we’d just stop paying for medicaid we could afford school lunches.” I could arbitrarily pick any government program and say “we fund this instead of that.” It makes no sense.
Plus it’s not like we were about to then “oh no war in Ukraine” and we canned the idea.
I am not defending it, in fact I explicitly said I DON’T support our military spending. I’m saying your either/or is patently absurd. Cut military spending, increase military spending, it doesn’t matter. It’s detached from whether or not we feed our children. They are separate matters.
If you agree we can easily afford it then what are you even on about?
Super pumped to live in a state that decided to bring back free lunches (and breakfast) for all gradeschool kids.
The quality could be better, but you have to start somewhere!
Wow, I’d forgotten this was even Russell Brand’s cause before he transmogrified seemingly overnight into a rightwing conspiracy grifter rambling about vaccines injecting 15-minutes cities into your blood.
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