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. Get the TMZ > Toolbar Now! > > _______________________________________________ > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County > area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org Marlo Capoccia Garden Gate www.gardengatedelivery.com _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
