Barbara Ehrenreich still taking chances, telling it like it is:
…the poor in aggregate provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them. The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators. Employers, for example, can simply program their computers to shave a few dollars off each paycheck, or they can require workers to show up 30 minutes or more before the time clock starts ticking.
Last year I had baby squirrels in my utility room, so i was diligent in blocking them out, this year I there were birds just as diligently breaking through the perimeter, they built this super complex nest. Before I could stop the process, the 4 eggs were laid, and three out of the four hatched bald baby birds. I worried about them alot as it wasn’t really all that warm when they were born. I knew I had to leave them be - resist the urge to intervene. I peeped in ever day to see how they were, and on one particularly cold night, I witnessed a very touching site. I saw one of the parent birds - I’m assuming their ma bird, laying over with it’s wings spread to cover them like a blanket. It was the bird’s private moment which I didn’t feel the urge to photograph.
My friends Ras Tre Subira and Olu Butterfly Woods of HABESHA’s Black to Our Roots Program, are amazing - this project has helped open the minds and hearts of students who may never have been able to have the opportunity to travel to another state - or another country.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Practicing to Spring Forward…
on Sunday at 2:oo am - setting the clocks I have control of an hour ahead one at a time at high noon today, starting with my office a then forwarding one clock in each of the other rooms ahead during each succeeding hour.
I love this company - and their formatible director - Kibibi Ajanku - please share.
A Note from My Friends at the Bethesda Writer’s Center
The Writer’s Center is pleased to present a reading and discussion with Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, author of No Fear: A Whistleblower’s Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo is also the founder of the No FEAR Coalition, a grouping of civil rights and whistleblower organizations that fight for increased legislative protections for federal employees.
The program is free and open to the public. It begins at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, February 19, at The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo’s talk will be followed by a question and answer session, a reception and book signing.
No Fear describes Dr. Coleman-Adebayo’s experiences at EPA and her work with vanadium mine workers in South Africa. She served as the liaison to the White House on the Gore-Mbeki Commission, a Clinton administration foreign policy program with South Africa. She was relieved of her responsibilities on the Commission after she reported that an American company exposed its African miners and their families to vanadium dust, a deadly substance. Her efforts to conduct an investigation were stifled and she was made a target of personal abuse.
In 2000 Dr. Coleman-Adebayo won an historic lawsuit against the EPA on the basis of race, sex, color discrimination, and a hostile work environment. She testified before Congress on two occasions, leading to passage of the No Fear Act protecting whistleblowers, the first civil rights law in the U.S. in this century.
Her work has been widely recognized. The National Whistleblower Center has characterized her as one of the most influential “truth-tellers” in the country. She was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) in June 2007. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) recognized Dr. Coleman-Adebayo’s leadership in the civil rights movement at its 50th anniversary gala in Atlanta, Ga. Time Magazine compared her to civil rights hero Rosa Parks and she is called the Mother of the first civil rights act of the 21st century. Her Web site is: http://www.marshacoleman-adebayo.com/no-fear-the-book.html
(Source: writer.org)
While in the midst of political campaigns, and remembering King and debating whether or not Global Warming is really occurring, I find myself doing a little time traveling.
I ran across this poem shortly after it was printed in a magazine over a decade and a half ago. I’ve remembered it ever since as I was haunted by Nemerov’s intuitive observation of our trajectory. He died over a decade before those “nightmares” came to be.
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