you keep sending me messages that are for a 'Donna?' So you must have the
wrong address, if I have accidentally applied for these e-mails please could
you remove me from your mailing list.
thank-you
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth MacNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 October 1999 15:03
Subject: Re: Garbbed in Cliche
>Helllooo Donnna!!!!! Good to "hear" your voice again. I second your
>emotion: where is everyone these days?
>I have just finished a two day conference on Philanthropy where we started
>off with Ralph Nader as our token radical. Ralph exhorted us to remember
>that the need for charity in a community decreases in direct proportion to
>the availability of justice. Yet we finished the two days with a panel
>bragging about how many large "gifts" they had been able to bring to their
>university. Two of the four members of this panel were downright hostile
>when I suggested that the curriculum of our core humanities course might
>benefit from an infusion of issues from Ralph Nader's "real world" of
>social justice. Seems they felt the pure, intellectual nature of the
>course might be contaminated by an assignment that asked students to serve
>the community in some way.....
>All I can say is, I'll try to keep fighting the good fight, and I'm glad to
>know that you and others are out there, Donna!
>
>Best, --E.
>Richmond, VA
>
>
>At 10:00 PM 10/26/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Ecofem,
>>
>>It's been a while since anyone has raised here. I miss our RAVE and feel a
>>need. Maybe it's because things have settled down or skidded up in most of
>>our lives, going this way or that.
>>
>>I feel a need. Nothing is fixed, or is it? ...the world is still the
same.
>>Not long ago, when we were raging with Joe and Jane, Angela and Chris and
>>So Many Others on this serve.
>>
>>Life goes there, to that place. Mine does. I have to wake up in the
morning
>>and go to this new job that does nothing to fix the IT that was here
>>before the other it: Graduation from college. Where will we go to relieve
>>the pain?
>>
>>I thank the "Rutherfords" for keeping us alive as the world rots 'round
us.
>>Thanks Steph for keepin us makin the rounds of silence vs. voice. Washer,
>thanks.
>>
>>What's up in everyone's part of the world?
>>
>>Here on the Tongass in Alaska, I'm learning the mentality of early
European
>>settlers and their assumption that vast means inexhaustible. I'm learning
>>that it's customary to waste, throw garbage out the window of your
vehicle,
>>that cigarette butts are biodegradable, that recycling is not only Not
>>Necessary, but requisite to survival when local authorities charge less
for
>>more waste generated, and that your personal worth is comparable to the
>>latest model utility vehicle you own.
>>
>>Love/donna
>>
>>
>>
>
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