One in Four
That's the ratio of FAS diagnosed children to developmentally normal children in Aboriginal communities in North West Australia. And it gets worse from there. The infant mortality rates for Aboriginal children are three or four times higher than for non-Aboriginal children. Most of the deaths are preventable, the result of accidents, injury, suicide or infection.
Wednesday we'll post a fund-raiser for the Pretty Bird Woman House, which is coordinated by Andy Ternay of Street Prophets, aka Andyt on Daily Kos.
The 10 year old girl pack-raped at Aurukun, in Cape York, has FAS. As do some of the adolescents named, but not charged, in the report.
We just want to make the point that moral outrage has been the social basis for intervention there, and elsewhere, in the past, and that the problems are bigger than funding one Lakota women's shelter startup costs, or getting one Aboriginal child protection order and a dozen problematic felony sentences.
Things aren't too good in the Gaza Strip either. Israel blocks all imports into the strip, except for a short list of about half a dozen basic articles. 900 trucks used to be employed daily for the imports and exports of the Gaza Strip, now their number is reduced to 15. For example, no soap is allowed in.
Local water is undrinkable. Israel does not let in bottled water. Nor does Israel allow the importation water pumps. The price of water filters has gone up from $40 to $250, there are no spare parts at all for filters. Only the well-to-do can still afford them. However, chlorine is let in.
There is no import of cement. When there is a hole in the ceiling, it cannot be repaired. The building site for the children's hospital stands silent. There are no spare parts of any kind. A medical instrument that goes out of order cannot be repaired. Not even incubators for babies or dialysis equipment.
The populations of Cape York, the Standing Rock Reservation, and Gaza, have some things in common. Unemployment by design. Disintegration by design. And Settlers who can see everything but their own shadows.
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Comments
I'm going to explain Aboriginal Australia from someone who had the culture of ...... Jewish Gaza.
a land without a people is a people wihout a land but this was a cruel land and it is polluted. there is no fine. persons do not travel in packs. when you walk into an aboriginal person's house you are likely to be greeted with a chant of 'mwho the heck are you?' this is because the aboriginal community is in rural rebellion real. essentially aboriginal communities get to ban liquor and racist whites in exchange for banning police and religious institutions of majric show. the last wave was...... an excellent movie. what the mullincraw is me ??wonk??
israel is a land with a people and they are segregated into an area the size of new jersey without the racist antisemites. that is, if there is no racism in the hate of greenland by a man like armstrong williams....
Posted by: Blog | December 18, 2007 08:05 AM