Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:31 AM To: grimwomyn Subject: newsletter
We’d probably be much better off today if the automotive and airline industries hadn’t bounced back. Cleaner air, diversified economies in major cities like Detroit and Pittsburg, and less of a reliance on fossil fuels would have resulted if those industries had tanked. The article is trying to cast business principles in naturalistic terms, something business people are always trying to do. That and make money.
From: grimwomyn Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:53 PM To: bitter NGO Worker Subject: newsletter
I hoped that people would get the message that out of challenging economic times can come real innovation and progress. Which is what I have seen in other orgs (I was working at a nonprofit in Manhattan during and the year after 9/11), that right now is not the time to get depressed and disillusioned, but instead to reach inside and bring your best ideas and energy to the table. Nonprofit agencies are still businesses, and I would posit superior businesses to the corporate world. Though we are on the opposite moral side, I feel that a lot of the organizational management studies that have been done in the corporate world apply to the 501c3 sector.
Of course, the job of the development department is not to fix global warming, but to do our very best to raise the money for the scientists, technicians, animals, and programs here and in the field who will do their part to work with others so that the issue can be addressed on all sides.
If we are not here to raise money, why are we here?
Back to the original question, off the top of my head, a company that wants to keep its hard working women would need: 1. Flexible scheduling - If I have to leave early to pick my kid up from school, let me. And trust that I can still get my job done, during the hours that work best for me and my family.
2. Project-based assessments - As long as I'm getting my work done, who cares how many hours I work? If I can complete a project in 20 hours, do I need to work a 40 hour week?
3. On site daycare / nearby daycare / daycare stipends - The salary of many working mothers barely covers daycare bills. And certainly doesn't make up for missing out on that time with the kids.
4. Discounts on maid service / dinner service - I realize this is simply a pipe dream, but it would sure take a large burden off our backs!
5. Understanding - Recognizing that work is work. It is not my life. And while it is a priority, it is not my top priority. So don't think I'm crazy or think less of me when I have other, personal things to take care of.
People should have to go through a licensing course to have children. Nothing prohibitive, like the driving test. Simple rules and information about raising kids. They take it when they are pregnant, both women and men. If they want the privilege of raising a child, they have to prove a willingness to be open to advice, information and guidance about healthy parenting.
"This book is dedicated to Lillian, who lives with nobody but a colony of New York roaches, whose energy has never failed despite her anxieties and her asthma and her overweight, who is always interested in everybody, often angry, sometimes bitchy, but always involved. Lillian the abundant, the golden, the eloquent, the well and badly loved; Lillian the indefatigable who thinks she is always tired." From the dedications in The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
I love hasselbot, I get the following emailed to me every week:
This is a hassle to remind you to revolt in anyway possible- do not allow "the man" to continue to ruin humanity. Take every chance possible to disturb the power system of wealth..
The kid has her requirements for a new place to live. She says:
It should be a hotel with a beach in the back of the house have a gym have a "pretty" bathroom next to her room it should be next to a diner have a pool have an arts and crafts station in the lobby and she thinks mudteeth is going to teach her how to waterski
Confession, I have a huge problem with a certain "mexican gangsta latina" viral video. I think it really sucks that even in online media there isn't a space where latina means educated, aware, interesting, sexy, strong, righteous, kind, political and passionate. Where do you find that? I'll tell you where, right here on Red Statement.
Anyway, so I voiced this dismay as seeing yet another of these bullshit images. And I was met by the following comment:
"As a Latino that where's his culture on his sleeve I don't cave into the easy out, dismissive use of the phrase "stereotype. Most times it comes from middle class or upper middle class Latinos that want to distance themselves from poor inner city " ghetto" Latinos. They want to fit into the perceived gentile world of gringo culture."
You know what? I live in the ghetto, I broke up a fight between two parents in front of my daughter's school. I pulled her out of the local Girl Scout troop because some mom thought it was okay to punch her son in the mouth, during the meeting. I have seen men piss in the street in the middle of the afternoon and someone puked in the middle of one of the restaurants we go to, because he had drank too much, at 6:30pm. I walk out of my house and my kid and I see coke baggies on the sidewalk. The teenage girls in my neighborhood are dead eyed and bitter, most of them pregnant before they even hit 20.
Yeah I want to fucking distance myself from that. Wouldn't you?
half boricqua, half anglo, 5 foot seven, never shuts her mouth, writes more than she talks, obsessive, frustrated, older than she thinks, younger than she knows, one pup down, one to go, jealous, water on the knots, speaks bodega spanish and greenwich english, can't sleep, cynical, the train is two minutes early, the man is even better than she can grasp, the kid brought calm.
Governor Paterson has proposed a 55% cut to the state budget funding the Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquaria (ZBGA) program; the only dedicated funding to “living museums” across the state. The Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, along with institutions spanning 44 counties and representing a diverse cross-section of New York’s zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums, arboretums, and nature centers, will be severely and immediately impacted unless we act now.
How can you help ?
Call the New York State Leadership. The Legislature is scheduled to vote in Albany on Tuesday November 18th and a phone call is a powerful tool. Tell the leadership to not cut ZBGA funding to the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium.
Governor David Paterson: 518-474-8390 Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: 518-455-3791 Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos: 518-455-3171
Send a Take Action- Please follow the link below (to www.wcs.org/takeaction) and simply send the email provided to your elected representatives and let them know that this revenue is critical to our institutions! It’s simple to do, it takes thirty seconds and will make a difference!
