Gene Robinson on Giving

Link below is to Gene Robinson discussing giving and why/how we should give.

The most powerful statement for me is when he says -
"There are two kinds of giving, but I like to think of it as downstream giving and upstream giving. It's not enough to pull the drowning victims out of the river, you need to walk back upstream and find out who's throwing them in. So there's both downstream-giving that actually takes care of victims of oppression. And then there's upstream-giving -- walking back upstream to do justice and to promote systemic change to find the underlying causes that are causing all this."

http://www.alternet.org/story/29579