Ontario has an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of those who rely on social assistance. There was a forum on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 hosted by the Income Security Advocacy Centre. It’s broader intent was to promote a new interactive website that deals specifically with the notion of a social assistance [...]
Cheryl Smith has sent you a story from Democracy Now!, a daily independent radio and TV news program:
Beginning with the 1989 classic Roger & Me, the Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore says his films “come back to this central core concern, which is the economic system we have is unfair, it’s unjust, it’s not democratic.” [...]
A FREE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
For people with low incomes to participate in a university level class in the Humanities
When? and Where?
Who is eligible?
What topics?
Who will teach?
Two hours one (or two) night(s) a week
Tuesdays October 13 – December 1 at Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Road from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursdays October 15 – [...]
Bastards of Love
Homeless hearts naked against the elements
Of lives abashed and never watched over
With acceptance filled eyes
Nor touched by hands of comfort and joy
Like windless skies or music without soul
A yearning so profound no one can remedy
Unless the devotion is truly a humane act
Of admiring charity
These bastards of love know only
The emptiness of solitary tears
For [...]
Dissent is not disloyalty.
Be careful before you retaliate.
Your steel wrapped in cotton
May only be brittle bone wrapped in fat.
tao
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LIVING HUMILITY – the 9th Verse of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
To keep on filling is not as good as stopping. Overfilled, the cupped hands drip.
Better to stop pouring.
Sharpen a blade too much and [...]
CD NORTHERN NIGHTS For copies or contact info: peacockpoverty@yahoo.ca
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