The call …
Poverty and Work Conference … November 2014
The University of California Davis School of Law will host the ClassCrits VII Workshop on November 14-15, 2014. A Call for Papers & Participation will be circulated in early March. As in past years, the Workshop will also extend a special invitation to junior scholars (graduate students and non-tenured faculty members) to submit proposals for works in progress.
Some of our neighbours are asking some serious questions about poverty.
Vulnerability, Resilience, and Public Responsibility for Social and Economic Justice
June 13-14, 2014 in Buffalo, NY
A Vulnerability and the Human Condition Workshop at SUNY Buffalo Law School
Email proposals (abstracts of a few paragraphs are fine) as a Word or PDF document by February 24, 2014 to Yvana Mols, ymols@emory.edu
Decisions will be made by March 7, 2014 and working paper drafts will be due May 19 so they can be duplicated and distributed prior to the Workshop.
The U.S. welfare state has long been the focus of competing understandings of human dependency and vulnerability. In a paradigm-shifting response to the 1930s economic crisis, the New Deal emphasized strong public responsibility for achieving economic growth, stability, and protection. From 1945 through 1975, the idea that the federal government has an obligation to protect farmers, families, business and labor against the risks of living and working in an industrial society…
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See you May 2015 in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada
I am working on a plan of action
So far the two main topics under consideration are
1. GAI
2. Solidarity
I am trying to come up with a plan of action of some sort …
Yes it is a holiday … I do know that … Victoria Day … What would Victoria have done I wonder … Now there was a Granny worth her granny boots …
Wonder what Victoria would have thought of GAI. Just a passing thought.
First Woman Senator in Canada or would that be the First Woman Speaker of the House?
These adjustments do take time. Ah but what is 10 years, more or less? What can possibly go wrong in ten years? … or 50 years … What difference does 50 years make? Well for one thing the Old Grey Mare is seldom very grey anymore. … then again … Does anyone really care about their colour? “If reformed wisely … ” And if not ? Imagine … All that money … 10 Senate salaries … all those perks … How much? … Must be considerable … All that money saved that would then be freed up to go into the new GAI-Canada FUND … Oh didn’t someone ask where the money was to go if the Senate melted away? Ten in New Brunswick alone. Imagine how many GAI incomes that would cover! Get the Senators working in it? Form a standing Senate Committee to determine how many potential GAI dollars would be freed up if the Senate were to be abolished? While they are at it the Senators could also decide on the dollar amount of the individual GAI salary that would be disbursed, which incidently would be the amount that the Senator would be entitled to once there were no more Senate jobs. Of course the Senators might just decide to keep the Senate going as a volunteer organization. That is, after all what some people are suggesting, that anyone receiving a GAI cheque turn their spare time over to community service.
Are any senators speaking out for Canadian people?
New Brunswick Senators
Senator Day
Almost fifty years have passed since 1968 when the The Senate of Canada put together the Special Senate Committee on Poverty.
Senators who served on the Special Senate Committee on Poverty
The Honourable David A. Croll, Chairman, Ontario
The Honourable Edgar E. Fournier, Vice-Chairman, New Brunswick
Pull up your bootstraps ladies … Try harder .. Get a job
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Today, May 16, 2014
Communication … so strange … What do I mean by S.O.P..?
What on earth might I be talking about?
Yesterday I used S.O.P. to mean Snake Oil Products. Today I discover that SOP also stands for Standard Operating Procedure.
Sometimes we despair … We fall … We pick ourselves up … We try again … Take “S.O.P.” … Yesterday “S.O.P.” was a convenient acronym made up on the spot for something I wanted to talk about. Why? Continue reading
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