More From the Ladies on the East Side…
Blogging and Acting…..
The ladies over at Mommy Blogs Toronto have some great ideas about acting vs. talking….
“Scifi Dad proposes this:
Encourage every person to try and improve their world, in whatever manner they are willing and able to do so. If you can, choose multiple causes and distribute your support (financial, volunteering, activism) among them. Ideally, choose a cause you previously did not support, for whatever reason. Try to overcome personal issues with certain causes (for example, if you believe “homeless people are lazy”, try to give them something - some money, a meal, some clothing - just because you can; or a Catholic with strong convictions could support a GLBT charity, in spite of what their faith teaches). Limited not by a call to action, nor a political bias, nor a cultural/religious bias, put something out into the world in an effort to make it a better place.
Hear, hear. And - because I wouldn’t be a blog editor if I didn’t always bring things back to blogging - if you’re going to do this, why not blog it, too? Pick your cause or causes and keep tabs on yourself by doing weekly updates on your own progress. Send us the links, and we’ll keep tabs on you, too. We’ll maintain a blogger activism page with links to anyone who is pursuing and blogging a cause, and encourage people to visit and support you.”
So gang, do we think we could find ONE cause or a couple that we could all stand behind? Something that we feel affects us all here in BC?
We have been great so far in supporting each other’s various causes…but what is WCW can come together for one issue and then put some sort of plan together….for awareness or whatever it takes….
We have a lot of clever ladies here. Perhaps we can be a powerful voice of change…perhaps we can pressure our government or write the media….you get the idea.
Let me know what you think!
Tags: BC, Blogs, Fun Stuff, Mom Talk, Shopping/Reviews, Site Stuff
7.9.07 at 9:00 pm
Dirk Bauman comments:
I believe in the power of one human voice. It becomes even more powerful when one more voice joins in, and then another and another.
We would be achieving a lot more together if we stop expecting every voice to be perfectly in sync with our own.
So she smokes…
So he is not vegan…
So they are Mormon…
So he and his wife are (Fill in the blank)
The sixties and seventies movement succeeded because we came together in spite of individual differences or belief systems.
How often have you failed to network simply because someone did not believe exactly as you?
Each time that happens an opportunity is missed…
The movement fails to gain strength and our voice is diminished.
They win.
And they laugh at our impotence and they revel in the power of political correctness to keep the masses from coming together and unifying into a choir of discontent.
If we can’t defeat our own intolerance of individual difference we will never come together as a WE, and all of us will continue living in a sick society ruled by sick and pathetic leaders.
If you can’t look past the differences in each other, try closing your eyes when you speak amongst yourselves…
Then you will begin to hear the common suffering in us all, and in that shared revelation truth will dawn upon our hearts and souls and it will set us free.
Only then will we become the army of light we must become in order to win the war which faces us today.
7.24.07 at 10:30 pm
mo-wo comments:
with the garbage situation.. I am thinking we should take a mo’ to think about Mama Earth and all the garbage of families. And generally the merchandising and crap that runs through our kids lives that are just sucking them in constantly to wretched chemical based lifeforming.
Hey I think I’ll just post about it.