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gf said...
toni-
"Rather than railing to the cries about providing low-income homes, how about creating decent, safe, cost effective low income living units?"
i welcome any and all efforts by any and all people who try and raise awareness for the need and solution, to the lower income housing dilemma that exists noh and elsewhere in our ward, our city and our country.
first, i guess i am having difficulty understanding the difference between "homes" and "units". "people" who need to be considered, will be living in these spaces no matter what the spaces are called.
secondly, in this "rush to condo everything and worry about the consequences later" atmosphere that the alderman has created here noh and rp, there are fewer effective voices who are highlighting the need to remember our low income neighbors.in my mind and heart, any effort and suggestion that accomplishes this important and worthwhile goal is constructive and meaningful.
i believe the blogs have the ability to reach a wider audience on an everyday basis that was not possible before. i believe our efforts could be coordinated, cooperative and much more effective as a united voice to leadership in our ward. this incredibly complex and difficult issue is much bigger than any of us individually and as james ginderske is fond of saying, your suggestion is one more "worthy of consideration" idea to add to the collective pile.
much has been made recently regarding " rp newbies" adding thier own genuine and sincere efforts and suggestions to our collective pile. i guess if my 7 year tenure in rp and my 51 year history as a human being, still qualifies my status as a "newbie", i will accept the charge.
but being a "newbie" allows me to view our political landscape in a slightly different, and somewhat objective way. there might be a one or two degree of separation between all of the diverse and genuine efforts in rp on this important issue.
the alderman has been very effective at exploiting those differences in the past and i do not believe we should allow this to continue. it is not in our best interest or the best interest of our low income neighbors to take this bait any longer. our cooperative and coordinated efforts would set aside this divisive practice and shed more light on just why the alderman uses this tactic, on this issue, in the first place.
my drivers license says i was born in 1955. and having grown up and matured in the sixties, i did my small " hair down to my beltloop" part to protest the issues we were all confronted with during that time. i retain all, if not more of that idealism that allowed us, as a nation, to change a few small things that needed reform.
i remember reading in the mainstream media at that time, that those efforts were naive and over idealisitic. our collective efforts, as concerned citizens, proved that criticism to be nothing more than defeatist propoganda.
in the recent red state, blue state election results, our once effective, idealistic voices, in my view, have been marginalized. i suggest we ressurrect those voices to fit into our new reality and our new ablity to communicate with our new medium.
if this notion qualifies me as a "naive newbie" still, i will again accept that charge, with honor.
in recent conversations with people who are inside the loop in washington and elsewhere and behind tightly locked doors, labels,idealogical differences and organizational structures are being set aside and unlikely alliances are being formed to coordinate and cooperate on important issues that face our nation. this unprecedented movement , in my view will have profound and far reaching consequences in the future and in the upcoming national election.
wouldn't it be cool to join this movement and put rogers park back on the cutting edge of the political map once again?
garyfuschi@yahoo
2/26/2006 3:57 AM
Plant a Seed Department:
gf said...
toni-
"Rather than railing to the cries about providing low-income homes, how about creating decent, safe, cost effective low income living units?"
i welcome any and all efforts by any and all people who try and raise awareness for the need and solution, to the lower income housing dilemma that exists noh and elsewhere in our ward, our city and our country.
first, i guess i am having difficulty understanding the difference between "homes" and "units". "people" who need to be considered, will be living in these spaces no matter what the spaces are called.
secondly, in this "rush to condo everything and worry about the consequences later" atmosphere that the alderman has created here noh and rp, there are fewer effective voices who are highlighting the need to remember our low income neighbors.in my mind and heart, any effort and suggestion that accomplishes this important and worthwhile goal is constructive and meaningful.
i believe the blogs have the ability to reach a wider audience on an everyday basis that was not possible before. i believe our efforts could be coordinated, cooperative and much more effective as a united voice to leadership in our ward. this incredibly complex and difficult issue is much bigger than any of us individually and as james ginderske is fond of saying, your suggestion is one more "worthy of consideration" idea to add to the collective pile.
much has been made recently regarding " rp newbies" adding thier own genuine and sincere efforts and suggestions to our collective pile. i guess if my 7 year tenure in rp and my 51 year history as a human being, still qualifies my status as a "newbie", i will accept the charge.
but being a "newbie" allows me to view our political landscape in a slightly different, and somewhat objective way. there might be a one or two degree of separation between all of the diverse and genuine efforts in rp on this important issue.
the alderman has been very effective at exploiting those differences in the past and i do not believe we should allow this to continue. it is not in our best interest or the best interest of our low income neighbors to take this bait any longer. our cooperative and coordinated efforts would set aside this divisive practice and shed more light on just why the alderman uses this tactic, on this issue, in the first place.
my drivers license says i was born in 1955. and having grown up and matured in the sixties, i did my small " hair down to my beltloop" part to protest the issues we were all confronted with during that time. i retain all, if not more of that idealism that allowed us, as a nation, to change a few small things that needed reform.
i remember reading in the mainstream media at that time, that those efforts were naive and over idealisitic. our collective efforts, as concerned citizens, proved that criticism to be nothing more than defeatist propoganda.
in the recent red state, blue state election results, our once effective, idealistic voices, in my view, have been marginalized. i suggest we ressurrect those voices to fit into our new reality and our new ablity to communicate with our new medium.
if this notion qualifies me as a "naive newbie" still, i will again accept that charge, with honor.
in recent conversations with people who are inside the loop in washington and elsewhere and behind tightly locked doors, labels,idealogical differences and organizational structures are being set aside and unlikely alliances are being formed to coordinate and cooperate on important issues that face our nation. this unprecedented movement , in my view will have profound and far reaching consequences in the future and in the upcoming national election.
wouldn't it be cool to join this movement and put rogers park back on the cutting edge of the political map once again?
garyfuschi@yahoo
2/26/2006 3:57 AM
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