[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1919] Re: Fwd: state of union and more

From: Barbara Cleveland (eldersense@prexar.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 19:04:45 EST


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<I don't want to
lose the point though--we know how to solve a lot of problems, at home and
abroad, and we aren't doing it.  We know about working close to the ground
and we aren't doing it.  A tragedy. > How do we solve the existing problems?
I am beginning to feel hopeless after being a political activist for years.
I am working in my own community and a group of us have started a "Women in
Black" and "Standing for Peace" and week stand on the corner in a small town
in Maine every Sunday. We get yelled at and we are cheered. Barbara

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> OK, what he said wasn't too great.  Natsios wasn't too swift in saying
that.
> Maybe I am being nostalgic for a time, the 80's, when  I knew people from
> different parts of the country who worked on USAID contracts.  Some of
these
> people were my professors, I admired them greatly, still do.  I don't want
to
> lose the point though--we know how to solve a lot of problems, at home and
> abroad, and we aren't doing it.  We know about working close to the ground
> and we aren't doing it.  A tragedy.
>
> Andrea
>



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