G20, Riots, Protests, & Poverty

Your cause is only as noble as your conduct. Debates about how the riots in Toronto got started aside, a cause like global poverty is too important to be derailed by anyone. There has to be a better way.

So, instead of taking to the streets in my hometown, I thought I'd share this video with you about how Canadian Tax Dollars helped transform one of many villages in Bangladesh. But, funding is always scarce for things like this. Let's change that.

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Elgato Systems (Major Equipment Provider)
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Operating & Equipment Fund Donors
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Josh Woodward
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Driftless Pony Club
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Footage of G20 Provided by the Government of Canada. Images of G20 Riots taken by Craig Kielburger and used under fair use for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes.

This video is licensed under a BY-NC-SA Creative Commons License.

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[divineforever]

How long should we keep begging rich countries for everything???? Why can't we develop our country by ourselves? There is too much patriotism in BD people which goes nowhere when it comes to improving standard of living and economy. C'mon, we need to get rid of the two political parties we have in our country. They eat away everything we have.

[UnculturedProject]

@divineforever Well I'm a Canadian citizen - not a Bangladeshi citizen. So I can only comment on what my government should be doing - not politics in Bangladesh. And if helping support communities in Bangladesh is something the Canadian government wants to do, I'm all for it :)

[UnculturedProject]

@BrokenBrilliance Anthony Bane - let's get the record straight. In your comments you have been suggesting that those in countries like Bangladesh need to die because evolution and population growth demand it. You also suggested that you have superior genetics & ancestry to those in Bangladesh. You also suggested that educating the poor in countries like Bangladesh will do no good.

I merely threw out the possibility race might be a factor. And calling people "you ethnics" doesn't help your case.

[UnculturedProject]

@eggbaax I actually like the fact that they didn't know what Canada is. This way Canada can never be accused of colonialism or political indoctrination. Instead, the curriculum was that of regular Bangladeshi schools: languages, math, and Bengali history.

[shariar1995]

@chinkskills he said takas .. its the currency

[chinkskills]

3:07 Did I hear him say 4000 tacos?!?!! =D

[TheBengaul]

This is amazing. Canadian gov helps a villages in Bangladesh to develop and our US gov funds other countries with weapons to screw each other.....hmmm

[kentan00]

Global Poverty is not an accident. it is caused by in influx of consumerism, and capitalism. kid can no longer go to school because school fees are too high. public schools cant get better teachers, books, etc. because Governments dont give the proper budget.

Basic commodities are exported and imported again so that business men can but a higher price tag on them. We live in a world that revolves around MONEY. not LOVE, not PEACE, but MONEY! the more money they make the better.

[UnculturedProject]

@e102ewan It's your last sentence which makes you lose your moral ground sir. These people lost everything thanks to Cyclone Sidr. They barely had a lot as it was due to the poverty in the area - but the cyclone took what little they had left. Those that survived that is.

I find it shocking that, in the face of such loss, that I'm getting questioned for doing something. Not even me. Your question is such that you seem to be wondering why ANYONE (charity or NGO) is helping here.

[e102ewan]

@UnculturedProject You prove what I've said about you so much it's just getting rediculous...

Again, you make it sound like you are the morally superior one in this conversation by saying that:

1) I am the one bugging you

2) I think that Bangladeshi people don't deserve/aren't worthy of help

3) I don't do enough to help.

Stop it. This started with me asking you 4 days ago (with no insult) why you chose to help these particular people rather than other people where your money could have don more.

[UnculturedProject]

@e102ewan If you don't like the answers I'm providing, you are more than welcome to bug someone else on YouTube.