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23 Aug: Journal of Thoughts

ai image, children in Gaza trying to find food during famine (as declared by UN)

The Hunger Policy

ai image, children in Gaza trying to find food during famine (as declared by UN)
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Fury is too small a word. This is a grief that scorches the throat. A silent, screaming void where bread should be. This is not nature’s neglect — it is a calculated, man-made hunger. A policy written in empty bowls and skeletal frames. A scream with no echo.

I will always give sound to an ache that cannot be named.

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6 responses to “23 Aug: Journal of Thoughts”

  1. Spira avatar
    Spira

    As a poet should.
    As mankind should, had it been one.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Aye. You’ve said it perfectly.

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  2. Zettl Fine Arts avatar
    Zettl Fine Arts

    Jean Ziegler demonstrated many years ago that world hunger is man-made and pursues political goals. Since then, virtually nothing has been heard from him; he has been “silenced” in an unbelievable way.

    (Jean Ziegler, Swiss, former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council, previously member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999.)

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      Misky

      He is a testament to the fight for a more human world.

      I’ve just read one of his papers (open access): UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, by Jean Ziegler. If you, or anyone reading this would like to discover his work, it’s at the UN General Assembly Archive of 2008 https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/7/5

      Jean Ziegler wrote, “A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.” Hunger is not born of scarcity but of decisions, of power, of deliberate neglect, and his words are more stark than ever: a population starved by policy, by blockade, by calculation. This is what Ziegler spent his life denouncing because … “The right to food is a human right that protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger. It is protected under international human rights and humanitarian law.”

      On his silence: perhaps age, he’s chosen to withdraw, leaving his words behind as his legacy, but silence does not erase truth. What he shouted once still resounds today: famine is policy. Hunger is murder. The absence of his voice does not absolve us; it presses more heavily upon those who remain.

      If Jean Ziegler no longer speaks, then we must. 

      Thank you for your comment.

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  3. Violet Lentz avatar
    Violet Lentz

    Throughout history one group has suffered hunger upon another group as punishment for imaginary sin- or as a means by which to overthrow- I had thought we had learned this lesson. I was ever so wrong.

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      Misky

      The only lesson learned is that starvation is a useful tool; over 280 million people across more than 50 countries are facing acute food insecurity at the moment.

      Thank you for your comment, Violet.

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