Cigarette and liquor advertisers are drug dealers. To physically impede manipulative advertising of addictive drugs will positively renew society and particularly its most oppressed citizens. We should undertake a militant campaign of grassroots resistance against liquor and cigarette companies' efforts to addict poor and particularly third world communities, including demanding an end of debilitating manipulative advertising and a reallocation of hundreds of millions of addictive liquor and cigarette advertising dollars to supporting public education and medical programs. A few suburban schools feature clean classrooms, well-stocked labs, good texts, and grassy playing fields. Most urban schools feature lead paint, metal detectors, few texts, and concrete playgrounds.
Some youngsters enjoy libraries.
Others dodge knives and learn hate. Since lack of education denies the right to fulfill human capacities, attempting to redress low educational standards while developing popular alternatives fosters equity. We should initiate a campaign to massively redistribute educational resources to shore up inner-city schools, including establishing free alternative schools. To suffer preventable disease in a society that spends hundreds of billions of dollars funneling money to rich industrialists via weapons expenditures is obscene. To go without medical attention because a hospital is overburdened or unwilling to admit the poor, or for lack of a doctor willing to treat the poor, or for lack of insurance or income to pay fees, is obscene.