Occupy Underground

...and the teacher who I work with the most and many of her students were all over this.

They explained to me the problem and then the solution, to shed light on this and hope that as enough people learn of the atrocities that some pressure will be brought to bear on forces that can do something about it.

One girl, however, was sad and said that her mom though that schools out to not be involving kids in this kind of thing.

I don't hold any opinions about the backers of the video--

I started a conversation today with someone, though, about how most of these oppressive regimes have some resource (oil, diamonds, water) behind them. Other conflicts are religious and a few might be tribal but even these are often caught up in a commodity, a resource, and often it's a Western First-World power that indirectly bears some responsibility.

I've just been too busy to look more deeply into it, and now I'm kind of sick, a cold or something.