Just met with some lovely folks who until recently worked at USAID and their implementing partners. Moving, heartbreaking, and enraging to hear the long-term impacts and wasted potential of our sudden, chaotic abandonment of global health aid.
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It is all of those things when I hear from my friends and former colleagues. I want to hug them all, make them soup, and then somehow get them back to the work they love and do with such open hands and hearts!
Just started reading your new book. There is no way you could have predicted how relevant and poignant it would be, given the current circumstances - no way. Looks like my copy was signed in the 30-40k range!
“They’ll bounce back” isn’t helpful when people are now unemployed with bills to pay in HCOL areas, facing a job market that was already shit, and now their entire sector is decimated and are competing for limited positions with all their coworkers who were also laid off.
He has not learned from the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that he lumbered the Biden administration with. (Let's be clear, he negotiated it, he set the wheels in motion, Biden was left with no option but to see it out and look bad for it)
This is GENOCIDE!!! This is affecting minority people around the globe, how will the BIPOC people in Africa and the far East be able to learn about minority causes now??? How will they know what to do??? This is literal GENOCIDE!!! I'm shaking right now 😡
In these times where the news is reducing so many of these folks to statistics its good to see people going out to meet with them and talk about their work.
Something any responsible government- Conservative or Liberal- Would have done if they saught to cut alleged waste.
The problem is that USAID was not for the benefit of those people. It was used predominantly used as coercion and subjugation of nations victims of the violence of US empire
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There's poetry in that, although it might be macabre.
We should really have even more middle aged dads from Indianapolis fighting global inequity.
Something any responsible government- Conservative or Liberal- Would have done if they saught to cut alleged waste.