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DC Metro Moms: Open Your Ears and Minds, It's Our Country at Stake

by Victoria Mason

Forty-nine years later the same question is still being asked.  Not by a President this time but by our very own citizens of this great country.

Looking back, I find it interesting to note that Kennedy proposed this during the early sixties.  Times were indeed a'chan-gin' and it would give way to less of the "greatest generation's" mindset of service and being bound to our communities but to the "me" generation, the 1970s and 80s, a time full of self-fulfillment, corporate ladder climbing, medical and technological breakthroughs and the end of the Cold War.  What followed in the 1990s was more of the same.  The new millennium didn't shatter any records in service either.  In fact, it is harder today to figure out a way to serve your country than it was thirty years ago, much less almost fifty years ago. 

Now we have a new President who has repeatedly asked us to put aside time for community service but that isn't necessarily the service I'm talking about.  Looking back again at Kennedy's address you will find the following quote, "So let us begin anew- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.  Let us never negotiate out of fear.  But let us never fear to negotiate.  Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."

The political and media zealots as well as the followers on both sides need to stop and think about the greater good, which is their job anyway, and remember why they were put in office.  However, it is our job to do this as well.  We need to stop and listen to the other side. Really listen to the non-zealots out there and hear what they believe and want.  Turns out, it is usually the same thing just expressed in a different way.  We need change to our system and our country.  It is divided and broken.  It can be fixed but we cannot just leave it up to the politicians to figure it out.  We need to ask ourselves what we can do and begin talking calmly to each other even if we think we don't agree. We need to work on solutions ourselves and then petition our politicians to follow suit.  We cannot teach our children manners, civic-mindedness and lessons in civility if we are always beating down the other side. 

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A-Infos (en) Australia, Anarchist AWSM newsletter - Solidarity #5

by a-infos-en@ainfos.ca

Contents: ---- * The bad days have begun: Job cuts and a biased wage fix ---- * Merchandising Unionists sentenced to imprison in Kanaky - * 100 Waikato dairy workers locked out - * Burgers and Circuses ---- The bad days have begun: Job cuts and a finding enjoyment in wage stand stock-still -- The ‘Davy Jones's locker economic downturn’ (downturn) is starting to piece, and it will get much worse. Unemployment is prognosticate to make it to 8% next year (or 180,000 people). Because the apportionment is set so pitifully low, heaps of people are wealthy onto benefits that pay a wee bit more. Now there are almost as many sickness beneficiaries as there are people on the dispense. All in all, there are now 310,000 beneficiaries, up from 258,000 last year. ---- The people who seem to be disproportionately hit with unemployment are low-paid workers, such as Maori and Pacific people.

But another sample of the working caste that’s getting thwacked is control workers. Superintendence razor gangs have been booming through departmental budgets penetrating jobs all over the show. As a development, over 2000 sway workers up and down the country have wrecked their jobs this year. It’s not justified Wellington that is getting hit. For pattern, the undivided offices of the Tertiary Tuition Commission in Christchurch and Rotorua have been shut off. These cuts are solely a commencement: the chief Bank ideologue has announced they are succeeding for a much leaner, meaner splendour (again), with ginormous go up privatisation (again) and contracting out. Anyone up for revisiting the vicious savageries of the 1980s and inopportune 1990s again? Better cuts perhaps?

The authority has also begun to prosecute its promised wage frost on regime workers. It appears that management workers will get no bring in-of-living increasing. This is effectively a wage cut inclined inflation. It looks like that the only management workers getting a wage augmentation this year are those who have it in their contracts, such as those who negotiated a wage expand last...

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