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Comment on Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile: About the book before I read it by ruralwomyn

ruralwomyn — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:36:03 +0000

D.A. – Thanks. I miss you on Facebook, but enjoy your blog.

Comment on Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile: About the book before I read it by d.a.

d.a. — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:09:05 +0000

Happy to see you back online!

Comment on Supreme Court Decision: No actual persons required for elections in U.S. by What if the preamble to the US Constitution read “We the corporations of America…”? « Professor, What If…?

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:13:24 +0000

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Comment on Supreme Court Decision: No actual persons required for elections in U.S. by Tom Degan

Tom Degan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:40:15 +0000

Are corporations really persons?

Do corporations think?

Do corporations weep?

Do corporations fall in love?

Do corporations grieve when a loved one dies as a result of a lack of adequate health care?

Do corporations have loved ones?

Are corporations even capable of loving?

Do corporations sometimes lose sleep at night worrying about disease, violence, destruction, and the suffering of their fellow human beings?

Do corporations feel your pain?

Is a corporation capable of having a sense of humor? Is it capable of laughing at itself? (EXAMPLE: “So these two corporations walk into a bar….”)

If a corporation ever committed an unspeakable crime against the American people, could IT be sent to federal prison? (Note the operative word here: “It”)

Has a corporation ever walked into a voting booth and cast a ballot for the candidate of its choice?

We all know that corporations have made a mountain of cash throughout our history by profiting on the unspeakable tragedy of war. But has a corporation ever given its life for its country?

Is a corporation capable of raising a child?

Has a corporation ever been killed in an accident as the result of a design flaw in the automobile it was driving?

Has a corporation ever written a novel or a dramatic play or a song that inspired millions?

Has a corporation ever risked its life by climbing a ladder to save a child from a burning house?

Has a corporation ever won an Oscar? Or an Emmy? Or a Tony? Or the Nobel Peace Prize? Or a Polk or Peabody Award? Or the Pulitzer Prize in Biography?

Has a corporation ever performed Schubert’s Ave Maria?

Has a corporation ever been shot and killed by someone who was using an illegal and unregistered gun?

Has a corporation ever paused to reflect upon the simple beauty of an autumn sunset or a brilliant winter moon rising in the horizon?

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a noise if there are no corporations there to hear it?

Should corporations kiss on the first date?

Could a corporation resolve to dedicate its vocation to being an artist? Or a musician? Or an opera singer? Or a Catholic priest? Or a Doctor? Or a Dentist? Or a sheet metal worker? Or a gourmet chef? Or a short-order cook? Or a magician? Or a nurse? Or a trapeze artist? Or an author? Or an editor? Or a Thrift Shop owner? Or a EMT worker? Or a book binder? Or a Hardware Store clerk? Or a funeral director? Or a sanitation worker? Or an actor? Or a comedian? Or a glass blower? Or a chamber maid? Or a film director? Or a newspaper reporter? Or a deep sea fisherman? Or a farmer? Or a piano tuner? Or a jeweler? Or a janitor? Or a nun? Or a Trappist Monk? Or a poet? Or a pilgrim? Or a bar tender? Or a used car salesman? Or a brick layer? Or a mayor? Or a soothsayer? Or a Hall-of-Fame football player? Or a soldier? Or a sailor? Or a butcher? Or a baker? Or a candlestick maker?

Could a corporation choose to opt out of all the above and merely become a bum? Living life on the road, hopping freight trains and roasting mickeys in the woods?

I realize that this is pure theological speculation on my part but the question is just screaming to be posed: When corporations die, do they go to Heaven?

Our lives – yours and mine – have more worth than any damned corporation. The Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday was beyond wrongheaded. Not only was it obscene – it was an insult to our humanity.

http://wwww.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

Comment on Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone by Rural Literacies and RWZ – Comment from an author « Rural Woman Zone

Rural Literacies and RWZ – Comment from an author « Rural Woman Zone — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:09:04 +0000

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Comment on Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone by Eileen E. Schell

Eileen E. Schell — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:37:04 +0000

Thanks for reading our book and for finding it valuable! Thank you for your work, which has inspired us.

I appreciate what you wrote about the third and a half world. I grew up with a feminist mom/rural farm wife-farmer on a third generation family farm. In college, I tried writing a paper about farm women’s dual roles and the silence around their work when I was 20 years old. i was desperately trying to write about the women and the rural life I grew up with at the big city university I attended. I could hardly find anything on rural women in the huge university library. When I did find material, it was vague and not useful. I ended up interviewing farm women in order to write the paper. I spent many years trying to find a way to write about these issues. Your website was a way in for us…..

We need to thank you! We have an edited collection we are working on called _Reclaiming Rural Literacies_–more voices to add to the mix!

Thanks for reading.

Eileen E. Schell

Comment on Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone by d.a. (dasparky)

d.a. (dasparky) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:14:26 +0000

Fantastic!

Comment on It’s a Long, Long Way to Towanda, Kansas: The price of neglecting rural America by Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone « Rural Woman Zone

Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone « Rural Woman Zone — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:11:12 +0000

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Comment on The wasteland? by Nan Gaunt

Nan Gaunt — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:20:23 +0000

Thanks for your comments. I live in a small rural community and understand your words. I feel that there is extreme fear here in my neck of the woods and the ‘good’ people tend to be too timid. The might is right philosophy rules. I feel it’s a struggle for me to find my voice at times. But, I think it’s important that we still make ‘waves’.
I offend ask why I’m here when it seems like such a struggle. Why should the bullies get to live closest to nature?

Comment on The wasteland? by MadamaAmbi

MadamaAmbi — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:32:54 +0000

HI Sister–permanent hunting season…I would say that many women who don’t live in rural areas can identify with that feeling. Yes, there is a way we can raise our heads and build bridges…not an easy, way, though. But we can and we will…

The FAB4Obama group on Yahoo got superceded by the FAB4Obama group on Organizing for America. Here’s the link to join: http://snipr.com/ew3g1

FAB4Obama is also on Facebook, but I can’t seem to get a conversation going there. Yes, place matters, and I’m still working it…

Please join us on OFA and Facebook so that we can keep discussing how to build bridges…