ack! i can't believe i sent this out to the list again. i'm going to have to tape the "send" button down so i stop doing this. my sincere apologies.
-marlo On Jul 24, 2008, at 5:01 PM, marlo capoccia wrote: > hey jeanne, > my kids are walking in the door now but i didn't want to miss a > chance to write you and see where you work. i'm doing home delivery > of local foods and haven't done much outreach to try to find ways to > deliver inexpensive food to the home bound. i'm very interested in > looking into this more and would like to talk with you or someone > more about this. my time is so limited but i have lots of > flexibility with how to do things. maybe we can make a match? > > also, thanks for writing about how attitude can hurt. it's not > something we talk a lot about so i think people forget to think about > it. if we're nice people then sometimes we forget we can be hurtful > or even elitist. it's not how we think of ourselves so it slips > past us... > > -marlo > On Jul 24, 2008, at 3:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I really appreciate Jon's post below and agree completely with it. >> Thank You Jon. I would have posted earlier but have been trying to >> decide how I wanted to say it. I had to work through alot of anger >> at exactly that attitude that Jon is talking about to keep my post >> calm. >> >> This culture has always been great at putting primary blame on >> ordinary working class people-- even the poor, >> elderly&handicapped,-- and that attitude can easily infiltrate >> movements that pride themselves on breaking away from the dominant >> destructive attitudes. >> >> It's also the same reason I posted that article a week or so back >> about rural poor elderly and handicapped losing essential services >> or at risk of losing them. My agency does it’s best to service >> isolated and vulnerable people in this County but it is >> increasingly difficult to arrange for home care services. Home >> visits by caseworkers to assess needs and monitor ongoing safety of >> clients is an essential part of what we do. I myself am a mobility- >> impaired person who has to drive to work and to therapy, which I >> must juggle with a work schedule. >> >> Feeling superior to other people, though not technically a physical >> act, is a particularly pernicious form of violence and antithetical >> to the justice that as some brave souls others have noted, is >> inseparable from sustainability. >> >> I also love that quote by Dr Cornel West about justice being the >> public expression of love of that Tony del Plato includes with his >> posts. Thank you Tony...and Dr=2 >> 0West. >> >> Jeanne >> >> >> >> >> I'm not talking about mechanics, I'm talking about attitude. I'm >> talking about the kind of holier-than-thou preening that >> implicitly relegates the rest of America to the category of the >> morally inferior. >> >> The fact is that the vast majority of Americans -- I'd guess >> around 90 percent of them -- are dealing with economic tides about >> the best they can while swimming in a sea of government and media >> manipulation that very few people can resist. Yes, there is a >> group of people who might in some better world be held to account >> for what's happening -- the usual suspects. But most people have >> landed where they are through the operation of forces beyond their >> control. >> >> Here's a single mom with four kids who lives in the same place in >> Newfield that her family has lived in for 150 years, located on a >> side road that is not and probably never will be served by TCAT. >> She drives into Ithaca every day to her job at Wal-Mart in a car >> that doesn't get good mileage but is far beyond her means to >> replace. She feeds the kids GMO crap from Wal-Mart because she >> can't afford anything better. >> >> What's your solution for her? >> >> Tell her to commute to work on a bike? >> >> Give her a lecture on the need for population control and tell her >> to shoot two of the kids? >> >> What's your plan? >> >> Jon >> >> >> >> The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. 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