[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Polarization was never my intent. Nor mine.
> Paradoxically, perhaps, I also agree with this point, which I hope things > like the upcoming July 7th event at GIAC will go a long way towards > addressing. > > > That's funny - I generally see Tompkins County people as so obsessed >>> with national and international issues that they have a hard time >>> pausing to look around at their actual neighborhood. > > > People often don't look around to their own neighborhood especially towards > those who are "marginalized". Although I see it not so much as being overly > obsessed with national/international issues, though that has occurred, as > being an issue of classism and racism. Class and race definitely make this a larger problem, though I fear that people's "sense of place", even in Tompkins County, is weak to start with. (I suspect it's stronger here than elsewhere, but still very weak relative to what a healthy community would look like.) Building a strong sense of community is a hard thing; building strong and inclusive community is even harder. Thanks, Simon St.Laurent http://livingindryden.org/ _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
