• les pauvres du monde ne mendient pas la charité des riches, ils veulent juste plus de justice et d’équité.
    contrairement à ce que pense Bill Gates et ses potes de Davos.

    The world’s poor are not begging for charity from the rich – they’re asking for justice and fairness

    Philanthropy is the enemy of justice | Robert Newman | Comment is free | The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/philanthropy-enemy-of-justice?newsfeed=true

    It’s strange that at this week’s World Economic Forum the designated voice of the world’s poor has been Bill Gates, who has pledged £478m to the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, telling Davos that the world economic crisis was no excuse for cutting aid.

    It reminds me of that dark hour when Al Gore, despite being a shareholder in Occidental Petroleum, was the voice of climate change action – because Gates does not speak with the voice of the world’s poor, of course, but with the voice of its rich. It’s a loud voice, but the model of development it proclaims is the wrong one because philanthropy is the enemy of justice.

    Am I saying that philanthropy has never done good? No, it has achieved many wonderful things. Would I rather people didn’t have polio vaccines than get them from a plutocrat? No, give them the vaccines. But beware the havoc that power without oversight and democratic control can wreak.