[Xmca-l] Re: Fwd: Verizon's greed
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Sun Apr 24 21:37:57 PDT 2016
Hey! Well done Helen.
Another way of explaining it is in the movie "City Slickers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1uOqRb0HUA
Andy
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Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making
On 25/04/2016 2:34 PM, Helen Grimmett wrote:
> This showed up in my facebook feed not so long ago!
>
> Inline images 1
> A beautiful Japanese word : Ikigai
>
> Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese
> concept meaning "a reason for being". Everyone, according
> to the Japanese, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep
> and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is
> regarded as being very important, since it is believed
> that discovery of one's ikigai brings satisfaction and
> meaning to life.[1]
> Finding the purpose of your life.
> The Japanese call it IKIGAI and this is how you derive it.
> — @emmyzen (Emmy van Deurzen)
> The term ikigai is composed of two Japanese words: iki (生
> き?), referring to life, and kai (甲斐?), which roughly
> means "the realisation of what one expects and hopes for".
> In the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a
> reason to get up in the morning"; that is, a reason to
> enjoy life...the word is used to refer to mental and
> spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that
> their lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to
> one's economic status or the present state of society.
> Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but they
> have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai>
> — with Punnapa Norsaengsri
> <https://www.facebook.com/punnapa.norsaengsri>.
>
> --
>
> *Dr HELEN GRIMMETT *
> Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education
> Professional Experience Liaison - Primary
>
> *Education*
> Monash University
> Room 159, Building 902, Berwick Campus
> 100 Clyde Road
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> E:helen.grimmett@monash.edu <mailto:name.surname@monash.edu>
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>
> *Recent work:*
> Helen Grimmett (2016): The Problem of “Just Tell Us”:
> Insights from Playing with Poetic Inquiry and Dialogical
> Self Theory, /Studying Teacher Education/, DOI:
> 10.1080/17425964.2016.1143810
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17425964.2016.1143810
>
> Helen Grimmett (2014), The Practice of Teachers'
> Professional Development: A Cultural-Historical Approach
> <https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/professional-learning-1/the-practice-of-teachers-professional-development/>,
> Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
>
>
>
>
> On 25 April 2016 at 14:09, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>
> Have you come across the Japanese word "ikigai",
> Valerie? I believe it translates as "a reason to get
> up in the morning, a reason to live." I think we all
> need ikigai, and our world is made up of other
> people's ikigai (or whatever the plural is).
> Andy
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> Andy Blunden
> http://home.mira.net/~andy <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy>
> http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making
>
> On 25/04/2016 2:03 PM, Wilkinson wrote:
>
> Note (a continuation):
> I was in such a hurry that I couldn't remember
> "the project as unit of analysis." (thanks Andy)
> We do progress! It's not just survival of the
> fittest, but also mutual aid is a factor. And
> like we used to say in Medieval Lit,
> "when Adam dug and Eve spun,
> who was then a "gentleman"?
> V
>
>
> On 2016/04/25 12:13, Wilkinson wrote:
>
> Life in the present mode of existence, being.
> Hello, dear Xmca-er colleagues.
>
> I'm checking in as a woman scholar voice doing
> research in General
> Systems Theory. Once I was just at the
> beginning and now nearly the end
> of my institutional career. In Japan. A
> National University.
> I live in an educational world where the
> children have been taught that
> the nail that sticks out gets beaten down.
>
> As a systems theorist, at the level of self,
> group, community - living
> systems naturally seek equilibrium. So why
> would I vote or not vote for
> Sanders? Why would I vote or not vote for Hilary?
>
> 40 years of teaching languages, Latin, Greek,
> English, has been to make
> my living. What I love and want to talk about
> is how to create a great
> team, produce a film, coordinate a
> satisfactory project, with the young
> ones who are enacting the managerial roles
> having the full support of
> the community of adults, both in and out of
> the academy. Moreover,
> peer-learning, which appears essential, and
> has so appeared to me since
> I was seven, "teaching" my one year younger
> brother how to read my first
> English primer.
>
> Time and again Andy, Larry, and Mike have
> responded lucidly and kindly
> to my flashing dives into the stream. I feel
> that Andy's "project" as
> mode/method/focus for the self, the team, and
> the community is coherent,
> articulate, manageable. So if I fear and
> dread recursions of 30s
> horrors, world depression, anti-union, the
> ghastly shape of Nazism
> appearing, the shape of Joseph McCarthy's
> witch-hunts, it's not going to
> help much with my projects of today, this
> week, etc.
>
> But coming back again and again to the
> present, the projects I am doing
> now, this week, this month, working out how to
> stay in contact with the
> players, get announcements out to the
> community, well, that is quite
> enough for me to do. Since the kids are grown
> up and don't need me so
> much, I have to encourage young students to
> join clubs, have meetings,
> plan events. Just have to stay busy ...
>
> But always coming back to General Systems
> Theory, and moving with the
> present, as a woman/mother/lover/teacher/faculty
> member/participant-observer, I value the
> exquisite mind of Ross Ashby
> and "requisite variety," which is what a
> viable system needs to survive,
> an environment which draws out the creative,
> which satisfies the hunger.
> Permeable membranes and interface is how I
> see the interaction of
> nations and communities and teams and people
> and families and the cells
> in the body maintaining health.
>
> It is hard for me to check in or dive in with
> a word, but XMCA continues
> to be the best forum for my serendipities and
> synchronicities and
> reading of the news. I'm still a GST person
> and keep my eye on Ervin
> Laszlow and the Budapest Club for
> international cooperative ventures in
> sustainable business, a benign transition to
> an age of ultra-technology,
> in which human communities can create
> harmonious dwellings,
> environmentally friendly renewable energy and
> so on. I live in Japan
> and my brother's family members live in
> Germany. Living in the present
> does not mean just today. I see that it means
> progressing toward better
> education, better health, better food supply.
> I still want to pay
> attention to Japan and Germany - and where
> ever people have learned that
> wholesome, calm work places, educational
> opportunities and intrinsic
> development, taking it easy and taking it
> slow, are altogether so much
> better than war, war, bombs, and
> military/industrial complex money blah,
> messing up the academy, truncating creativity,
> killing joyful work
> places. (But now I see that I am standing on a
> box in a park instead of
> getting on with my projects for today).
> Vandy
>
>
> 2016/04/25 9:29, mike cole wrote:
>
> This is how Sanders represents himself in
> a way that appeals to a good
> many
> Americans. They do not
> know what to call it and neither does he.
> I offer it as evidence about an
> unusual phenomenon in American political
> life that feels to this dated
> person a LOT like what I understand of the
> 1930's in this country. I come
> from a line of premature anti-fascists and
> anti-racists (terrible
> sexists)
> who were firm believers in the first
> ammendment to the constitution of
> the
> US. What I see in this election is very
> disturbingly like what those
> years
> around my birth were all about.
>
> The result in that case was a massive
> world war and the beginning of the
> atomic age.
>
> The result in this case?
>
> Who was it you were asking me to vote for?
>
> mike
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> From: BernieSanders.com
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> Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 4:14 PM
> Subject: Verizon's greed
> To: Michael Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com
> <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>>
>
>
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> When the CEO of a company makes almost $20
> million a year but then
> tries to
> outsource jobs, reduce wages, and cut
> health benefits -- that's the
> kind of
> corporate greed we need to get rid of in
> America. *And that's exactly
> what
> Verizon is doing right now.*
>
> Verizon's employees are fighting back.
> They're out on strike for a
> contract. *Stand with them against their
> CEO and add your name to
> Bernie's
> to say you support Verizon employees.
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> Bernie's email to you about this very
> important issue about this is
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> Sisters and Brothers,
>
> The CEO of Verizon makes almost $20
> million a year in compensation. He
> leads one of the most profitable companies
> in the country.
>
> *Yet Verizon wants to take away employees'
> health benefits. Verizon wants
> to outsource decent-paying jobs. Verizon
> wants to avoid paying federal
> income tax. And right now, Verizon is
> refusing to sit down and
> negotiate a
> fair contract with its employees.*
>
> In other words, Verizon is just another
> major American corporation trying
> to destroy the lives of working Americans.
> *But this time, Verizon's
> employees are fighting back.*
>
> Thousands of very brave employees of
> Verizon and Verizon Wireless are on
> strike until they can get a fair contract.
> They made a *very* difficult
> decision that puts their families at risk
> -- but it's a choice they
> made to
> stand up for justice against corporate greed.
>
> *I'm asking you today to stand up and tell
> the CEO of Verizon that you
> think Verizon employees deserve a fair
> contract that protects health
> benefits, guarantees fair pay, and stops
> outsourcing. Click here to add
> your name in support of Verizon employees.
> <https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/stand-with-verizon-employees?source=em160423-full>*
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>
> Twice last week in New York City I stood
> with Verizon workers in the
> streets. I did so because they're doing
> something very brave: they're
> standing up not just for themselves, but
> for the millions of Americans
> who
> don't have a union.
>
> The working class of this country deserves
> to earn decent wages, decent
> benefits, and not see their jobs go to
> low-wage countries.
>
> Verizon's CEO doesn't think that. He
> called me "contemptible" for saying
> that his employees need a fair contract,
> and that Verizon should pay its
> fair share in federal income taxes.
>
> What I think is contemptible is CEOs with
> multi-million dollar
> compensation
> packages, presiding over extremely
> profitable companies, and still
> refusing
> to give their employees fair contracts.
>
> Corporate greed is a scourge on this
> country, and it will take all of us
> standing up for justice in order to rein
> it in. *One significant way you
> can stand up to corporate greed is by
> standing with Verizon employees who
> are out on strike.*
>
> *Add your name and say you support Verizon
> employees who are standing
> up to
> the CEO in order to get a fair contract
> with health benefits, fair
> pay, and
> job protections.
> <https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/stand-with-verizon-employees?source=em160423-full>*
>
>
>
> Corporate America is slowly beginning to
> realize that they cannot have it
> all. Thanks for helping them know it.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Bernie Sanders
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