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Originally Posted by Peregrino
A lot of the "worker bees" in the NGOs are good people doing genuinely useful humanitarian labors. Now if something could only be done about the politics of their bosses and mouthpieces. My .02 - Peregrino
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Agree completely, they are doing good work, but the worker bees' rhetoric is hard to take, too. I treat conversations with them like Sunday dinner at Granny's house: no discussion of politics. Makes things go smoother. Having said that, I have lately noticed a shift away from "magic cookie land" towards the world the rest of us live in. Stints in Darfur, recent brushes with Maoist rebels, etc. have caused a couple of them to lurch away from their org's official positions. One woman I know guiltily admitted to me that she was beginning to think the people in Darfur had the right to defend themselves. Imagine!