Re: nimc - 3 new messages in 2 topics - digest
Dawn Ceballos
worked really hard with some people to make this a community friendly
conference. Please send this out to your network. It will be worthwhile
and a great opportunity for us to make the connections needed to
collaborate on upcoming visions/projects.
>>> nimc group <nor...@googlegroups.com> 10/26/2009 5:15 AM >>>
The National Institute for Multicultural Competence
http://groups.google.com/group/nimc?hl=en
Today's topics:
* A significant loss-Gary Simpkins - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/nimc/t/df33c1403bda43c3?hl=en
* Implementing the new paradigm in the counseling profession requires
transformation in our thinking about "helping" - Concrete strategies
for
dealing with the social-political crisis affecting our clients' live -
2
messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/nimc/t/d35acc073b850969?hl=en
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TOPIC: A significant loss-Gary Simpkins
http://groups.google.com/group/nimc/t/df33c1403bda43c3?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Oct 23 2009 1:01 pm
From: Allen Ivey
Dear Friends,
I just received a copy of Gary Simpkins and Frank Simpkins' book
Between the Rhetoric and the Reality (Lauriat Press, 2009). There they
speak of the BSPA in 1969 (p. 171) and Gary's early work in Ebonics --
well researched with excellent results. As Joe White and many others
know, being an activist brings a high price in this society.
Gary, sad to say, passed on on August 26. I spoke to his brother just
now (760-245-0948) and got this information. I would hope that the
Black Students Psychological Association might look at his work and
ensure that what he did becomes part of history.
Gary apparently was head of the BSPA when it disrupted the APA
meetings in 1969. I would guess that Joe White recalls him. Gary wrote
a book describing his experiences. I think it important to bring this
new book to your awareness, if you have not seen it already.
Gary completed his doctorate at Harvard, but they refused to give him
his degree, likely because of his activism. He went on to U. Mass.
where he worked with Ellis Olim and did eventually receive his
doctorate. I knew him reasonably well there, but was not fully aware
of his work before and after UMass.
As I am a Harvard Ed.D., it was interesting to see his transcript
attached to the book's appendix. At the top you see Ed.D. University
of Massachusetts 1969. One cannot help but wonder why Harvard, who
turned down a completed dissertation, lists the fact that another
university conferred the degree. Simpkins cites the famed John Shlein
and David McClellan as two who worked against him.
His "turned down" dissertation on teachng reading to African American
students was field tested with real success by Houghton Mifflin.
My friends at UMass may want to pass on this information to the Dean
and those who keep historical records. This book should be in our
archives.
With warm greetings to you all,
Allen
Allen E. Ivey
www.allenivey.com
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston
Churchill
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TOPIC: Implementing the new paradigm in the counseling profession
requires
transformation in our thinking about "helping" - Concrete strategies
for
dealing with the social-political crisis affecting our clients' live
http://groups.google.com/group/nimc/t/d35acc073b850969?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 25 2009 9:10 am
From: "Michael D'Andrea"
Aloha:
One of the major changes I have noted in attending the last few ACA,
ACES,
and APA Conferences/Conventions is that the social justice counseling
and
advocacy paradigm has moved from the margins to the center of the
mental
health professions. This is a tribute to the many persons who have
worked to
foster the institutionalization of this new helping paradigm in these
professions.
As the pioneers, emerging leaders, and other allies in this movement
continue to institutionalize this phenomena in the counseling
profession, we
are mindful that the implementation of this new paradigm in the
counseling
profession requires transformation in our thinking about the "helping"
process and identifying new, concrete, and transformative strategies
for
dealing with the social-political factors that adversely affect our
clients'
lives and simultaneously stimulate healthy human development. In doing
so
social justice counseling advocates will undoubtedly experience
negative
criticism by those persons who insist on perpetuating a myopic view of
counseling - a view that will lead us to becoming increasing perceived
as
being irrelevant from the vantage point of many people whose mental
health
problems are intimately connected to social-political factors that are
increasing being recognized as the source of many people's
psychological
distress. So be it....
Rather than spending time debating persons who are hostile to the
principles
upon which the social justice counseling and advocacy movement is
grounded,
I suggest that social justice advocates in the counseling profession
direct
their time and energy towards developing and implementing new helping
strategies that will stretch the thinking of some colleagues and
students
and transform the thinking of others in the field.
With this in mind, I would recommend social justice allies to check
out
Michael Moore's new movie entitled, "Capitalism: A Love Story". I saw
it
yesterday and in addition to the facts presented in the movie, I was
very
impressed with the action strategies many people are taken around the
country to counter the adverse economic, social, spiritual and
psychological
impact that unbridled free market capitalism is having on their lives.
The
positive and radical actions these persons are taking are similar to
many of
the "therapeutic" social justice counseling and advocacy interventions
I
implemented with other colleagues clients I worked with at the Meharry
Community mental Health Center in Nashville, Tennessee when working
with
clients experiencing serious (undifferentiated schizophrenia) and
chronic
mental health problems.
I have copied and pasted 15 action strategies Michael Moore has posted
on
his website below. You can secure additional information related to
Moore's
interventions and movie by going to www.michaelmoore.com
In the continuing struggle for justice and peace,
Michael D'Andrea
2009-2010 CSJ President
*October 22nd, 2009* 5:51 AM "Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things
Every
American Can Do Right
Now"<http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/michael-moores-action-plan-15-things-every-american-can-do-right-now>
You've
Seen the Movie -- Now It's Time to ACT!
Friends,
It's the #1 question I'm constantly asked after people see my movie:
"OK --
so NOW what can I DO?!"
You want something to do? Well, you've come to the right place! 'Cause
I got
15 things you and I can do right now to fight back and try to fix this
very
broken system.
Here they are:
*FIVE THINGS WE DEMAND THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DO IMMEDIATELY:*
*1. Declare a moratorium on all home evictions.* Not one more family
should
be thrown out of their home. The banks must adjust their monthly
mortgage
payments to be in line with what people's homes are now truly worth --
and
what they can afford. Also, it must be stated by law: If you lose your
job,
you cannot be tossed out of your home.
*2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For All
Americans.* A single, nonprofit source must run a universal health
care
system that covers everyone. Medical bills are now the #1 cause of
bankruptcies and evictions in this country. Medicare For All will end
this
misery. The bill to make this happen is H.R. 3200 -- but this bill is
worthless without the amendment from Rep. Anthony Weiner that will
bring us
closer to the real bill that should be passed: H.R. 676. You must call
AND
write your members of Congress and demand that they support this
amendment<http://www.pnhp.org/amendment/>,
no compromises allowed.
*3. Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected
officials
leaving office and becoming lobbyists. *Yes, those very members of
Congress
who solicit and receive millions of dollars from wealthy interests must
vote
to remove ALL money from our electoral and legislative process. Tell
your
members of Congress they must support campaign finance bill
H.R.1826<http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1826/show>
.
*4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like
they
have in North Dakota.* Then congress MUST reinstate all the strict
pre-Reagan regulations on all commercial banks, investment firms,
insurance
companies -- and all the other industries that have been savaged by
deregulation: Airlines, the food industry, pharmaceutical companies --
you
name it. If a company's primary motive to exist is to make a profit,
then it
needs a set of stringent rules to live by -- and the first rule is "Do
no
harm." The second rule: The question must always be asked -- "Is this
for
the common good?" (Click
here<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/how-nation%E2%80%99s-only-state-owned-bank-became-envy-wall-street>for
some info about the state-owned Bank of North Dakota.)
*5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy resources
above
and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all of us.* Just like
they
do it in Sarah Palin's socialist Alaska. We only have a few decades of
oil
left. The public must be the owners and landlords of the natural
resources
and energy that exists within our borders or we will descend further
into
corporate anarchy. And when it comes to burning fossil fuels to
transport
ourselves, we must cease using the internal combustion engine and
instruct
our auto/transportation companies to rehire our skilled workforce and
build
mass transit (clean buses, light rail, subways, bullet trains, etc.)
and new
cars that don't contribute to climate change. (For more on this, here's
a
proposal I
wrote<http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/saving-the-big-3-for-you-and-me-a-message-from-michael-moore>in
December.) Demand that General Motors' de facto chairman, Barack
Obama,
issue a JFK man-on-the-moon-style challenge to turn our country into a
nation of trains and buses and subways. For Pete's sake, people, we
were the
ones who invented (or perfected) these damn things in the first
place!!
*FIVE THINGS WE CAN DO TO MAKE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT LISTEN TO
US:*
*1. Each of us must get into the daily habit of taking 5 minutes to
make
four brief calls:* One to the President
(202-456-1414<http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/>),
one to your Congressperson
(202-224-3121<https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml>)
and one to each of your two Senators
(202-224-3121<http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm>).
To find out who represents you, click
here<http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/>.
Take just one minute on each of these calls to let them know how you
expect
them to vote on a particular issue. Let them know you will have no
hesitation voting for a primary opponent -- or even a candidate from
another
party -- if they don't do our bidding. Trust me, they will listen. If
you
have another five minutes, click here to send them each an
email<http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/>.
And if you really want to drop an anvil on them, send them a snail
mail
letter <http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/>!
*2. Take over your local Democratic Party.* Remember how much fun you
had
with all those friends and neighbors working together to get Barack
Obama
elected? YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE. It's time to re-up! Get everyone back
together and go to the monthly meeting of your town or county
Democratic
Party -- and become the majority that runs it! There will not be many
in
attendance and they will either be happy or in shock that you and the
Obama
Revolution have entered the room looking like you mean business.
President
Obama's agenda will never happen without mass grass roots action -- and
he
won't feel encouraged to do the right thing if no one has his back,
whether
it's to stand with him, or push him in the right direction. When you
all
become the local Democratic Party, send me a photo of the
group<pho...@michaelmoore.com>and I'll post it on my website.
*3. Recruit someone to run for office who can win in your local
elections
next year -- or, better yet, consider running for office yourself!*
You
don't have to settle for the incumbent who always expects to win. You
can be
our next representative! Don't believe it can happen? Check out these
examples of regular citizens who got elected: State Senator Deb
Simpson<http://www.rbf.org/annualreviews/annualreviews_show.htm?root_doc_id=907315&display_doc_id=940605&fullnav=2>,
California State Assemblyman Isadore
Hall<http://photos.essence.com/galleries/icdrm2008images4isadorehall>,
Tempe, Arizona City Councilman Corey
Woods<http://www.tempe.gov/elected/woods.htm>,
Wisconsin State Assemblyman Chris
Danou<http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=67068>,
and Washington State Representative Larry
Seaquist<http://housedemocrats.wa.gov/members/Seaquist/>.
The list goes on and on -- and you should be on it!
*4. Show up. Picket the local branch of a big bank that took the
bailout
money <http://projects.nytimes.com/creditcrisis/recipients/table>.*
Hold
vigils and marches. Consider civil disobedience. Those town hall
meetings
are open to you, too (and there's more of us than there are of them!).
Make
some noise <http://www.showdowninchicago.org/>, have some fun, get on
the
local news. Place "Capitalism Did This" signs on empty foreclosed
homes,
closed down businesses, crumbling schools and infrastructure. (You can
download
them from my
website<http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/spread-the-word-capitalism-did-this>
.)
*5. Start your own media.* You. Just you (or you and a couple friends).
The
mainstream media is owned by corporate America and, with few
exceptions, it
will never tell the whole truth -- so you have to do it! Start a
blog<https://www.blogger.com/start>!
Start a website of real local news (here's an example: The Michigan
Messenger <http://michiganmessenger.com/>). Tweet your
friends<https://twitter.com/>and use
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> to let them know what they need to
do
politically. The daily papers are dying. If you don't fill that void,
who
will?
*FIVE THINGS WE SHOULD DO TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR LOVED ONES UNTIL
WE
GET THROUGH THIS MESS:*
*1. Take your money out of your bank* if it took bailout
money<http://projects.nytimes.com/creditcrisis/recipients/table>and
place it in a locally-owned bank or, preferably, a
credit union <http://www.creditunion.coop/cu_locator/quickfind.php>.
*2. Get rid of all your credit
cards<http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/09/michael-moore-endorses-chase-boycott/>but
one
* -- the kind where you have to pay up at the end of the month or you
lose
your card.
*3. Do not invest in the stock market.* If you have any extra cash, put
it
away in a savings account or, if you can, pay down on your mortgage so
you
can own your home as soon as possible. You can also buy very safe
government
savings bonds or T-bills. Or just buy your mother some flowers.
*4. Unionize your workplace so that you and your coworkers have a say
in how
your business is run.* Here's how to do
it<http://www.ueunion.org/org_steps.html>(more
info here <http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/how/howto.cfm>). Nothing is
more
American than democracy, and democracy shouldn't be checked at the door
when
you enter your workplace. Another way to Americanize your workplace is
to turn
your business into a worker-owned
cooperative<http://www.ncba.coop/abcoop_howto.cfm>.
You are not a wage slave. You are a free person, and you giving up
eight
hours of your life every day to someone else is to be properly
compensated
and respected.
*5. Take care of yourself and your family.* Sorry to go all Oprah on
you,
but she's right: Find a place of peace in your life and make the choice
to
be around people who are not full of negativity and cynicism. Look for
those
who nurture and love. Turn off the TV and the Blackberry and go for a
30-minute walk every day. Eat fruits and vegetables and cut down on
anything
that has sugar, high fructose corn syrup, white flour or too much
sodium
(salt) in it (and, as Michael Pollan says, "Eat (real) food, not too
much,
mostly plants"). Get seven hours of sleep each night and take the time
to
read a book a month. I know this sounds like I've turned into your
grandma,
but, dammit, take a good hard look at Granny -- she's fit, she's rested
and
she knows the names of both of her U.S. Senators without having to
Google
them. We might do well to listen to her. If we don't put our own
"oxygen
mask" on first (as they say on the airplane), we will be of no use to
the
rest of the nation in enacting any of this action plan!
I'm sure there are many other ideas you can come up with on how we can
build
this movement. Get creative. Think outside the politics-as-usual box.
BE
SUBVERSIVE! Think of that local action no one else has tried. Behave as
if
your life depended on it. Be bold! Try doing something with reckless
abandon. It may just liberate you and your community and your nation.
And when you act, send me your stories, your photos and your
video<pho...@michaelmoore.com>-- and be sure to post
your ideas in the
comments<http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/michael-moores-action-plan-15-things-every-american-can-do-right-now>beneath
this letter on my site so they can be shared with millions.
C'mon people -- we can do this! I expect nothing less of all of you, my
true
and trusted fellow travelers!
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMF...@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/>
*UPDATE:* My position that a single-payer system is the only solution
to the
health care crisis remains the same. I do not support H.R. 3200 unless
it
includes Rep. Anthony Weiner's amendment
<http://www.pnhp.org/amendment/>,
which would essentially gut H.R. 3200 and replace it with Rep. John
Conyers
Jr.'s H.R. 676. In July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised Rep.
Weiner an
up or down vote <http://weiner.house.gov/news_display.aspx?id=1335> on
his
amendment before the end of the year. At that moment this became our
best
chance for a single-payer, universal health care plan for all. In the
heat
of the health care debate, strategies change from day to day, but as
it
stands right now, Rep. Weiner's amendment to H.R. 3200 is the best
chance we
have at achieving a single-payer system in the U.S. This is the same
position held by the foremost activist groups for a single-payer health
care
plan: Physicians for a National Health Program
(PNHP)<http://www.pnhp.org/amendment/>,
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing
Committee<http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/october/massive-public-bailout-apparently-not-enough.html>,
and
Healthcare-NOW!<http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/pass-single-payer/>Let's
ride his Trojan horse out of this mess. Write
your congressmembers <http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/> to demand
that
they support Rep. Weiner’s amendment
<http://www.pnhp.org/amendment/>. One
thing remains clear: No health care system will be safe until every
for-profit insurance company has been removed from it.
--
Michael D'Andrea
University of Hawaii
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 25 2009 11:08 am
From: Allen Ivey
Michael, as always, speaks the truth--as does Michael Moore. The movie
CAPITALISM is a must for any thinking counselor or therapist. We work
with the victims of this system.
I'm going to look at moving out of Bank of America as a start. It will
be a little difficult as I travel around, but it is time for me to put
my money where my mouth is!!
Allen
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston
Churchill
On Oct 25, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Michael D'Andrea wrote:
> FIVE THINGS WE DEMAND THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DO IMMEDIATELY:
>
> 1. Declare a moratorium on all home evictions. Not one more family
> should be thrown out of their home. The banks must adjust their
> monthly mortgage payments to be in line with what people's homes are
> now truly worth -- and what they can afford. Also, it must be stated
> by law: If you lose your job, you cannot be tossed out of your home.
>
> 2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For
> All Americans. A single, nonprofit source must run a universal
> health care system that covers everyone. Medical bills are now the
> #1 cause of bankruptcies and evictions in this country. Medicare For
> All will end this misery. The bill to make this happen is H.R. 3200
> -- but this bill is worthless without the amendment from Rep.
> Anthony Weiner that will bring us closer to the real bill that
> should be passed: H.R. 676. You must call AND write your members of
> Congress and demand that they support this amendment, no compromises
> allowed.
>
> 3. Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected
> officials leaving office and becoming lobbyists. Yes, those very
> members of Congress who solicit and receive millions of dollars from
> wealthy interests must vote to remove ALL money from our electoral
> and legislative process. Tell your members of Congress they must
> support campaign finance bill H.R.1826.
>
> 4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like
> they have in North Dakota. Then congress MUST reinstate all the
> strict pre-Reagan regulations on all commercial banks, investment
> firms, insurance companies -- and all the other industries that have
> been savaged by deregulation: Airlines, the food industry,
> pharmaceutical companies -- you name it. If a company's primary
> motive to exist is to make a profit, then it needs a set of
> stringent rules to live by -- and the first rule is "Do no harm."
> The second rule: The question must always be asked -- "Is this for
> the common good?" (Click here for some info about the state-owned
> Bank of North Dakota.)
>
> 5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy
> resources above and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all
> of us. Just like they do it in Sarah Palin's socialist Alaska. We
> only have a few decades of oil left. The public must be the owners
> and landlords of the natural resources and energy that exists within
> our borders or we will descend further into corporate anarchy. And
> when it comes to burning fossil fuels to transport ourselves, we
> must cease using the internal combustion engine and instruct our
> auto/transportation companies to rehire our skilled workforce and
> build mass transit (clean buses, light rail, subways, bullet trains,
> etc.) and new cars that don't contribute to climate change. (For
> more on this, here's a proposal I wrote in December.) Demand that
> General Motors' de facto chairman, Barack Obama, issue a JFK man-on-
> the-moon-style challenge to turn our country into a nation of trains
> and buses and subways. For Pete's sake, people, we were the ones who
> invented (or perfected) these damn things in the first place!!
>
> FIVE THINGS WE CAN DO TO MAKE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT LISTEN TO
US:
>
> 1. Each of us must get into the daily habit of taking 5 minutes to
> make four brief calls: One to the President (202-456-1414), one to
> your Congressperson (202-224-3121) and one to each of your two
> Senators (202-224-3121). To find out who represents you, click here.
> Take just one minute on each of these calls to let them know how you
> expect them to vote on a particular issue. Let them know you will
> have no hesitation voting for a primary opponent -- or even a
> candidate from another party -- if they don't do our bidding. Trust
> me, they will listen. If you have another five minutes, click here
> to send them each an email. And if you really want to drop an anvil
> on them, send them a snail mail letter!
>
> 2. Take over your local Democratic Party. Remember how much fun you
> had with all those friends and neighbors working together to get
> Barack Obama elected? YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE. It's time to re-up!
> Get everyone back together and go to the monthly meeting of your
> town or county Democratic Party -- and become the majority that runs
> it! There will not be many in attendance and they will either be
> happy or in shock that you and the Obama Revolution have entered the
> room looking like you mean business. President Obama's agenda will
> never happen without mass grass roots action -- and he won't feel
> encouraged to do the right thing if no one has his back, whether
> it's to stand with him, or push him in the right direction. When you
> all become the local Democratic Party, send me a photo of the group
> and I'll post it on my website.
>
> 3. Recruit someone to run for office who can win in your local
> elections next year -- or, better yet, consider running for office
> yourself! You don't have to settle for the incumbent who always
> expects to win. You can be our next representative! Don't believe it
> can happen? Check out these examples of regular citizens who got
> elected: State Senator Deb Simpson, California State Assemblyman
> Isadore Hall, Tempe, Arizona City Councilman Corey Woods, Wisconsin
> State Assemblyman Chris Danou, and Washington State Representative
> Larry Seaquist. The list goes on and on -- and you should be on it!
>
> 4. Show up. Picket the local branch of a big bank that took the
> bailout money. Hold vigils and marches. Consider civil disobedience.
> Those town hall meetings are open to you, too (and there's more of
> us than there are of them!). Make some noise, have some fun, get on
> the local news. Place "Capitalism Did This" signs on empty
> foreclosed homes, closed down businesses, crumbling schools and
> infrastructure. (You can download them from my website.)
>
> 5. Start your own media. You. Just you (or you and a couple
> friends). The mainstream media is owned by corporate America and,
> with few exceptions, it will never tell the whole truth -- so you
> have to do it! Start a blog! Start a website of real local news
> (here's an example: The Michigan Messenger). Tweet your friends and
> use Facebook to let them know what they need to do politically. The
> daily papers are dying. If you don't fill that void, who will?
>
> FIVE THINGS WE SHOULD DO TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR LOVED ONES
> UNTIL WE GET THROUGH THIS MESS:
>
> 1. Take your money out of your bank if it took bailout money and
> place it in a locally-owned bank or, preferably, a credit union.
>
> 2. Get rid of all your credit cards but one -- the kind where you
> have to pay up at the end of the month or you lose your card.
>
> 3. Do not invest in the stock market. If you have any extra cash,
> put it away in a savings account or, if you can, pay down on your
> mortgage so you can own your home as soon as possible. You can also
> buy very safe government savings bonds or T-bills. Or just buy your
> mother some flowers.
>
> 4. Unionize your workplace so that you and your coworkers have a say
> in how your business is run. Here's how to do it (more info here).
> Nothing is more American than democracy, and democracy shouldn't be
> checked at the door when you enter your workplace. Another way to
> Americanize your workplace is to turn your business into a worker-
> owned cooperative. You are not a wage slave. You are a free person,
> and you giving up eight hours of your life every day to someone else
> is to be properly compensated and respected.
>
> 5. Take care of yourself and your family. Sorry to go all Oprah on
> you, but she's right: Find a place of peace in your life and make
> the choice to be around people who are not full of negativity and
> cynicism. Look for those who nurture and love. Turn off the TV and
> the Blackberry and go for a 30-minute walk every day. Eat fruits and
> vegetables and cut down on anything that has sugar, high fructose
> corn syrup, white flour or too much sodium (salt) in it (and, as
> Michael Pollan says, "Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly
> plants"). Get seven hours of sleep each night and take the time to
> read a book a month. I know this sounds like I've turned into your
> grandma, but, dammit, take a good hard look at Granny -- she's fit,
> she's rested and she knows the names of both of her U.S. Senators
> without having to Google them. We might do well to listen to her. If
> we don't put our own "oxygen mask" on first (as they say on the
> airplane), we will be of no use to the rest of the nation in
> enacting any of this action plan!
>
> I'm sure there are many other ideas you can come up with on how we
> can build this movement. Get creative. Think outside the politics-as-
> usual box. BE SUBVERSIVE! Think of that local action no one else has
> tried. Behave as if your life depended on it. Be bold! Try doing
> something with reckless abandon. It may just liberate you and your
> community and your nation.
>
> And when you act, send me your stories, your photos and your video
> -- and be sure to post your ideas in the comments beneath this
> letter on my site so they can be shared with millions.
>
> C'mon people -- we can do this! I expect nothing less of all of you,
> my true and trusted fellow travelers!
>
> Yours,
> Michael Moore
> MMF...@aol.com
> MichaelMoore.com
>
> UPDATE: My position that a single-payer system is the only solution
> to the health care crisis remains the same. I do not support H.R.
> 3200 unless it includes Rep. Anthony Weiner's amendment, which would
> essentially gut H.R. 3200 and replace it with Rep. John Conyers
> Jr.'s H.R. 676. In July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised Rep.
> Weiner an up or down vote on his amendment before the end of the
> year. At that moment this became our best chance for a single-payer,
> universal health care plan for all. In the heat of the health care
> debate, strategies change from day to day, but as it stands right
> now, Rep. Weiner's amendment to H.R. 3200 is the best chance we have
> at achieving a single-payer system in the U.S. This is the same
> position held by the foremost activist groups for a single-payer
> health care plan: Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP),
> The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing
> Committee, andHealthcare-NOW! Let's ride his Trojan horse out of
> this mess. Write your congressmembers todemand that they support
> Rep. Weiner’s amendment. One thing remains clear: No health care
> system will be safe until every for-profit insurance company has
> been removed from it.
>
>
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