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In History, Literature, serious Theory, Dominick LaCapra maintains his exploration of the complicated family among heritage and literature, the following contemplating background as either technique and illustration. A trio of chapters on the heart of the quantity hindrance the ways that historical past and literature (particularly the radical) impression and query one another. in a single of the chapters LaCapra revisits Gustave Flaubert, pairing him with Joseph Conrad. different chapters pair J. M. Coetzee and W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones, and Saul Friedlander's two-volume, prizewinning background Nazi Germany and the Jews.
A recurrent motif of the publication is the function of the sacred, its complicated prestige in sacrifice, its virulent manifestation in social and political violence (notably the Nazi genocide), its function or changes in literature and artwork, and its multivalent expressions in "postsecular" hopes, anxieties, and quests. LaCapra concludes the amount with an essay at the position of violence within the considered Slavoj Zizek. In LaCapra's view Zizek's provocative inspiration "at occasions has uncanny echoes of previous reflections on, or apologies for, political and probably regenerative, even sacralized violence."
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These institutions, being the product of the accumulation of generations of specific experience built up slowly over the course of uncountable years, changing and adjusting as contingencies warranted, could only be judged with reference to this immemorial usage, with reference, that is, to custom. 19 To this, of course, Enlightenment reason responded with confident scorn. For on the view it advanced—and one sees this, for instance, as much in Jeremy Bentham's early work, A Fragment on Government, published more than a decade and a half before Burke's Reflections, as in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, which was a response to it—reason, seeing as it did into the very nature of things, had a prescriptive and an aggressively programmatic mission, the accom18 Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951).
In marking off this period, the crucial point is not the degree of oppressiveness or corruption of colonial officials (as in the period of East India Company administration), nor even the steady, as it were, incremental rationalization and humanizing of absolutist-autocratic colonial rule (as during the early phase of crown colony administration). Therefore, the increase or decrease of the level of taxation or the variety of things taxed may have been more or less oppressive; the officials who collected revenues may have been more or less corrupt; forms of forced labor may have been administered in such a way as to have been more or less onerous.
36 And if with sovereignty, the relation between ruler and ruled is such that power reaches out like an extension of the arm of the prince himself, announcing itself periodically with unambiguous ceremony, with government, governor and governed are thrown into a new and different relation, one that is not merely the product of the expanded capacity of the state apparatus but of the emergence of a new field for producing effects of power—the new, self-regulating field of the social. It is here that the new problem of government (of which the specific problem of the state is now but one component) is articulated.


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As dean for outreach, Vasquez de Velasco will be responsible
for coordinating the college's study abroad, distance learning
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location or period of time, Vasquez de Velasco said. We
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our College can offer to our former, current and future students.
As dean of outreach, Vasquez de Velasco will focus on four distinct
College of Architecture initiatives:
Vasquez de Velasco has been an innovator in distance learning
for the past seven years. Since 1998, from Texas A&M University,
he has coordinated the Las Americas Digital Research Network,
a collaborative group of top design institutions from 12 countries
in the western hemisphere. The network focuses on research and
educational activities in architecture, landscape architecture,
urban planning, and construction science.
For the past five years, Vasquez de Velasco has served as coordinator
for the Department of Architecture's master of architecture and
career change programs, which, under his guidance, have grown
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A Texas A&M architecture faculty member for the past 10 years,
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Symphony Hall is full of old people. The exception is during POPS when the program is for children and uncomfortably obligated families. This can't go on forever, can it? Old people die.
This summer in Boston, the Esplanade Association launched it's "Healthy, Fun & Fit" initiative; suddenly throngs of people were awkwardly attempting free Zumba and sunset yoga on the usually placid Charles River. This fitness for all craze has taken the US by storm, and pudgy Massholes are no exception. We came out in droves. In 2011, IBIS reported a total 19% increase in gym and yoga memberships. So who are these people? I don't need a study to tell you that very few of them know the difference between Symphony Hall and the DMV. They are, however, hardworking professionals who own Audis, insist they are on a gluten free diet, work out at LA Sportsclub, and wear Lululemon everything.
So, there I am with one of these folks, (because his "amazzzing instructor from The Club") is teaching. It actually does turn out to be amazzzing, and as we roll up our complimentary mats, we are both drawn, in our zen (or whatever) state to the breathtaking Hatch Shell, all glowy amber from the sunset. A mere fifteen paces later, we join a lawn full of attentive spectators all drinking rosé, an orchestra playing, while the sailboats drift by to our side.
We went all summer long; the city brought in soloists from BLO and beyond. Of course, the usual suspects attended, but there were also fit, dewy faced yoga creatures as well. People with enough money for new Audis, listening to, and seemingly enjoying, entire concerts they would have never known about otherwise. This trickery is genius. I've since found the exact same yoga/classical concert model in Jackson Hole and Phoenix. Do you think any of these newcomers were invited on Facebook? Does the BSO even have a twitter? Does the chick with $400 highlights next to me have a crush on Keith Lockhart? Doubtful. Classical music is considered by this demographic to be obsolete, boring. They are too busy at the organic market talking about kale. But here's the good news: This critical age group, 25-40, is finally looking to enrich and better their lives. At the very least, they are trying to appear to be a more highly evolved species; so why don't we help them?
If opera, dance, symphonic music and the like don't capture this audience now, the future of so-called "classical repertoire" is bleak, to say the least. Old people start to lose their hearing and sight, too. I forgot to mention that.
Yoga is only one example of a current trend; in a world of fierce individuality we have seen fitness communities and group, even "tribe" activities grow stronger. Streaming music and iPads are all anyone knows- why can't we assist these connection seeking people into finding another shared experience?
I saw a lot of white hairs peeking through visors at the Esplanade this summer, but I also saw ponytails on Lululemon stretchy-pant wearing ladies as well. My hope is that this pleasant introduction will be followed up with a date to a concert or two. With such a strong few weeks, I refuse to believe it was just a summer fling.


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The much more consoles that get launched the cheaper the old ones get. This is also accurate for the video games on those consoles. With the release of the PlayStation three the video games for the more mature PlayStation 2 instantly dropped in value. Which meant us; the players get to afford much more of these classics!
The software program can be used if you will have a desktop or laptop computer with a broadband connection to the Web. There is no require for tough-to other gadgets or to set up the PCTV card.
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You might pull on your denims and a shirt and believe, "Man! I wish I had some great red boots for this." Then you know what to appear for the next time you go shopping. And talking of buying, it's time to find gown up video games to perform at the mall.
Playing Blackjack online and winning it is truly a great feel. Every participant heading for online games want to win the game and make huge sum. If you are preparing to visit a casino to gamble and perform then it will be much better to first go for on-line Blackjack sport. You can also search for the basic technique of this game online and know how to win at. This will truly assist you develop your skills in this sport.
Learning a profession. Sure there are plenty of games that educate you how to do a job. Simulators are a great instance. Studying the ideas of flying and comprehending how to control an aircraft are great.
It's best to keep records of your play. And when I say information, I imply severe, created histories. If you keep track of which games you win at and which ones you lose – if you can place which limitations you do better at as in contrast to others, on an hourly foundation – you can figure out how to maximize your time. If you just use your head, you run the risk of allowing your emotions fuzzify your recollections. Believe in me – if you're not writing it down, you're doing your self a disservice. Consider it more seriously and your deficiencies will become more apparent.
You can also download these games and perform it in the offline mode on your computer. But many of the flash video games are not accessible for totally free. But you can get maintain of the demo edition and perform it. If you like the trial version then you can opt for purchasing the total version. If you want to unwind and de-stress following a difficult day then play on-line. This is the best way to forget the world affairs for sometime. You will also get nicely deserved break if you play flash video games online.


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ADS DVD Xpress DX2: Legal, but imperfect, DVD Copying
The DX2 has its roots planted firmly in VHS to DVD conversion, where its weaknesses were less apparent when transferring lower resolution VHS tapes into DVDs. But aside from converting family videos into a handier DVD format, I'd venture to guess that making a copy of an inferior VHS movie collection is not high on anyone's list of things to do.
Fortunately the DX2 can be used for other video capture related tasks. Use it to make backup copies of your DVDs, archive content from your DVR or TiVo or even use it to record your skills with your latest video game (I can't imagine why you would want a DVD capture of yourself playing a video game, but the important thing is that it's possible). If it comes out an S-video or composite video port, the DX2 can record it.
But does the DX2 return our fair-use rights to us by allowing us to make a personal backup of our bought-and-paid-for DVDs? Sorta. If you seek a quick and legal backup copy of a video in your DVD collection, it's a good option, as long as you're willing to accept some loss of picture detail, are willing to fiddle with your set's colour settings during playback and don't mind the real-time capture process. You shouldn't plan to watch the DX2's copies on an HD large screen however, since that only amplifies the DX2's weaknesses.
But will it produce a DVD copy that rivals the quality of a digitally-ripped (and illegal) copy? ADS Tech's claims to the contrary, the answer is definitely no - unless you plan to watch that copy on a portable media player with a tiny screen that will nicely mask the DX2 copy's shortcomings. So for now, if you want perfect copies of your own DVDs, you still need to risk having the cops, or worse, the MPAA kicking down your door.


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320w qb kit
Fantastic light, simple color coded assembly. I got it to replace "900" watts of cheap led. I have yet to run it at full power, 3/4 is plenty at the moment. Even at 3/4 power it caused some stress when originally put in at same height as old lights.


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Our bible study is moving!
We're trialling this autumn/winter a Sunday evening spot for our coffee and bible. So if you're not a Saturday morning person, you'll fit right in!
These will be 3rd Sunday of every month from 7pm (to 8ish) beginning 16th October.
The rest remains the same!
These catch-ups consist of a relaxed chat through a chapter or two from a book of the bible, of course with a coffee. (other drinks are available if necessary!)
The plan this month is looking at Jonah… yup the guy and the big fish. But there is so much more to this story than the big fish. It's also a story of storms and sailors, rebellion and rescue, preaching and protest; a story full of cliffhanger endings! So come and explore with us.
Sunday Oct 16th, from 7pm in the Rose Room, Christ Church, Warminster. We plan to make these meetings fit in everyday life, so we promise to finish by 8ish.
What is it like? We take a chapter or two, read it through together & chat about what we find. Absolutely no experience of the bible is necessary, all you need is a thirst to find out more & a willingness to share in a safe environment.
Where is it? We will meet in the Rose Room (upstairs in the main church), Christ Church, Warminster; see map below.
What shall I bring? Yourself! We will supply coffee/tea and a bible if you like.
Is there any cost? No, not a bean!
Look forward to seeing you there.


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Find out how creating a quality content link will benefit your rankings with Google.
A lot of wedding bands that we deal with have not got quality content on there website, what we mean by this is that they have not optimised there website in a way that google will reward them with a higher ranking. Tip – try to create 300 words and use the keyword phrases that you are hoping to get optimised for only use the keyword phrase about 2% of the total content.
You can have all the links in the world but if your links are not relevant then google will eventually find out, it is important that if you do get link that they are of good quality and are industry related, this way no matter what google algorithm changes are carried out, you can be assured your website will not be penalised.


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Country Floral Curtains are the sort of rural style
After all of us buy the house, the biggest problem is that in terms of decoration of the house, if you like the rural amorous feelings, Country Floral Curtains is a good choice for you. In this kind of curtains, floral design part do not disorderly also it could not spend, we can choose according to oneself in fond of of colors. Whether you prefer simple, pure and fresh quietly elegant, Country Floral Curtains is your best choice.
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On the Country Floral Curtains, creative design is a serious test for people, which is the industry's biggest competition, the curtain is on the basis of the design, or to adapt to the society, that is to say, it is widely accepted by people who is the best, this road is wide, therefore, the design of the curtain is to constantly meet customer demand, you should be from the diversity of each customer's ideas, aesthetic, you should pay attention to the style design, and its inherent, at the same time you also pay attention on details, you can have a new heaven and earth in the market.
The design of the curtain can't be short sighted
As the curtain of a floral businesses, we should think about consumers like, what is the demand, especially the mainstream consumers, according to their psychological activities to design, we often get twice the result with half the effort, we have at design time to design reach the designated position, although difficult, but the thought is very important, let consumer experience its advantages, so it will be a long-term development.The design of the curtain, we cannot short sighted, if there is no inspiration, you can go outside for a walk, or interviews with consumers, at the same time you could look at their common like.
In a word, if you want your house pretty, then you could try Country Floral Curtains on, it is really a good choice, the Country Floral Curtains will make your house charming, it is a good choice for your house, it is a good choice for your house, the Country Floral Curtains will make your house more pretty and full of charming.


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Black and White fabrics aren't created equal. To me, there are three "versions" of Black & White.
I store my BW's accordingly.
So where am I going with this? Well, another version of the Crayons, of course, but this one will have a twist. A couple of twists, actually. I'm not quite sure where, but I am scribbling ideas furiously in my little sketchbook.


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Davis, 25, was standing in a yard in the 800 block of Northwest 15th Avenue Monday evening when someone in a vehicle driving slowly by opened fire. He walked and staggered a little more than a block and collapsed in the road. He died early Tuesday at ORMC.
OCALA – Cheryl Boone called her son Jordan "Keke" Davis a survivor.
When he was 1 year old, she said, he fell into a burn pit and was burned severely. He survived.
Growing up, Davis had terrible seizures. His mother said "he fought through the pain," and survived.
As a teenager, she said, he jumped off a step and when he landed, his "arm jumped through his socket." But he survived.
On Monday, someone drove by and shot Davis, 25, as he stood in a yard in Ocala. Early Tuesday, he died at a local hospital.
Ocala police officials said Davis was standing in a yard in the 800 block of Northwest 15th Avenue on Monday evening when an occupant in a vehicle that was driving slowly by opened fire. Davis walked and staggered a little more than a block and collapsed in the road.
The 911 call about the shooting came in at 7:42 p.m.
At 4:42 a.m. Tuesday, Davis was pronounced deceased at Ocala Regional Medical Center, according to family members.
"He was a very outgoing child. He loved joking, dancing and clowning around," Boone said about her son.
Numerous family members and friends gathered Tuesday at Boone's home near the Boys & Girls Club.
Davis' father, Edward B. Davis Sr., said that since his son's untimely death, he senses a "void" and is "speechless."
"As a father, I'm at a loss for words," he said, adding that he will try to help keep his other sons and their mother strong as they go through "this troubling time."
One family member said Davis was known to hang out at the residence where he was shot.
Authorities said multiple shots were fired and struck the home and vehicles. One round entering the room of a child, who was not home at the time. Other who lived there were near by, detectives said.
Detectives used a metal detector and a Sheriff's Office K-9 to search the yard and bushes for evidence. They said they still do not know if Davis was an intended target.
While detectives were investigating the case involving Davis, another man showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound. Officials believe the incidents might be related, but would not clarify. The man remained hospitalized late Tuesday.
The shooting of Davis comes on the heels of the murder of a 70-year-old woman whose body was found in her yard last Wednesday.
A few weeks before that, a 17-year-old boy who was injured in a drive-by shooting died from his injury. His 13-year-old cousin also was shot as the two were sitting in a relative's living room. She was treated and released.
"We need to stop the gun violence, please. Enough is enough," said Davis' uncle Alfonso Randolph.
Randolph said he's "going to miss" his nephew, who, he said, was a good young man. He said Davis played wide receiver with the Marion County Youth Football League.
Another uncle, Eric Davis, described his nephew's passing as "a hard loss."
"I love him to death. I will always love him," Eric Davis said.
Edward B. Davis Sr. said he is praying to God that "we stop these innocent killings in America."
Boone said her son was born and raised in Ocala and attended Sparr Elementary, Osceola Middle and Forest High School. After graduation, she said, he did odd jobs.
She said she will miss him "aggravating me, his eyes and his smile."
Davis is survived by his parents, four brothers and an unborn child.
Anyone with information about the shooting can call Ocala Police Department Detectives Mat Steckman at 369-7147 or Shawn Minucci at 369-7183. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 368-STOP. Tipsters also can send a text to 274637, using keyword 368-STOP, or visit www.ocalacrimestoppers.com.
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Terrorism cannot be far from American's minds this week as we commemorate the September 11th attacks, memorialize the heroes who gave their life, and mourn both the lives of those lost and the end of the peace dividend we had hoped to enjoy following the end of the Soviet Union and the wave of democracy that swept through Eastern Europe.
In cyberspace, analysts vacillate between Cold War concerns from China and Russia (and their satellite nations) involving state-sponsored, non-border attacks on the U.S. and the West and terrorist attacks from non-state actors and self-proclaimed freedom fighters.
At the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit, defense industry analysts discussed these attacks, many of which "appeared to be state-sponsored and came from multiple countries." The speakers did not identify any particular government. As reported by Reuters, "every defense company is constantly under attack. If anybody tells you they're not, it just means they don't know," said Northrop Grumman Chief Executive Wes Bush. "It is a threat that is broad-based. It's not just from one source … and it's just unceasing."
In March 2011, a foreign intelligence service stole 24,000 computer files in March from a defense contractor developing systems for the U.S. military. The breach was acknowledged in July. "This was significant," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told reporters.
Lynn said the attackers swiped "data related to systems that are being developed for the Department of Defense. … It was done, we think, by a foreign intelligence service. In other words a nation state was behind it," he added. Lynn declined to identify the likely suspected nation involved in the theft.
Earlier in the year, credible evidence pointed to China for attacks on Google and dozens of military defense contractors. Again, the DoD has not officially named the country or countries involved in the attack, but because Chinese dissidents were specifically targeted as well as other evidence, China's involvement has been widely reported.
Perhaps one of the most damaging of these attacks was to RSA, the security division of EMC. In an comprehensive expose in Vanity Fair, the RSA attacks are explained. "RSA is the security division of the high-tech company EMC. Its products protect computer networks at the White House, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, most top defense contractors, and a majority of Fortune 500 corporations."
The RSA and defense-contractor hacks are among the latest battles in a decade-long spy war. Hackers from many countries have been exfiltrating—that is, stealing—intellectual property from American corporations and the U.S. government on a massive scale, and Chinese hackers are among the main culprits. Because virtual attacks can be routed through computer servers anywhere in the world, it is almost impossible to attribute any hack with total certainty.
The DoD is responding. "The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an arm of the Department of Defense. The goal is to "develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base" to help the agency keep abreast with communication technologies, namely Twitter. This is just one counter-insurgency activity being pursued.
The world is a very different place than it was a decade ago. We are only beginning to understand how much we have lost.
Special thanks to Vince Polley this (and so many other topics). Follow him at KnowConnect PLLC (supplemented by related Tweets: http://twitter.com/vpolley #mirln).


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Some time before, I needed to buy a car for my business but I didn't earn enough cash and could not buy anything. Thank God my friend proposed to take the credit loans from reliable bank. Thence, I acted that and used to be happy with my student loan.
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The Essence of Hawai'i – Statewide Photo Contest
You already have great images! Now get ready to enter.
Submissions for the photo contest opens on June 25th.
What is the essence of your image that helps you to express your love for Hawai'i? The people, the food, the island and our sea.
PhotoCon Hawai'i is Hawai'i's Statewide photo contest. It is open to professional photographers, amateur photographers, students, visitors and all residents who are "like-minded image creators" of Hawai'i.
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In the past few days, I've been toying with the idea of setting up a new blog, which would invite netizens to contribute by writing Dear John letters…. so that anyone needing a ready reference would have it available. While I haven't got down to it, really, here's a very nice site I found which has a form, and lets you actually create your 'Dear John' letter online!
Dear John
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To post scripture that is offensive to evangelical feminists is verboten
Unbelievable…..well, not really
To post scripture that is offensive to evangelical feminists is verboten
Unbelievable…..well, not really
I guess they do consider their guidelines higher than God's guidelines.
It evokes defensiveness only by one side of the debate though. You'll not see anywhere there where men have the least bit of defensiveness over what the Bible calls them to. The only issue comes from women and feminist thinking men getting defensive over what the Bible calls women to.
But rather than banning/regulating discussing parts of the Bible, wouldn't it make more sense to ban/regulate the defensive behavior?
The breakdown by gender of mods is at least 9 to 1 female to male and the few males are quite obviously very feministic in their thinking.
I beleive there is a list of the mods assigned to the area though, right on the entry page and you can click on their names and go to their profile and check the gender.
Which should be taken more seriously? The Scriptures or the evocation of defensiveness in feminists? CF has chosen a side, now all they can do is obfuscate and hide that choice since it as odds with their moniker.
Then there is the rest of scriptures that utterly gut Evo/feminism…..trying to point that out was what kept me in conflict with them.
They don't appear to like any type of scrutiny. They are really worthy of the full mockery that can be brought to bear upon them. I wonder why they won't put up a sticky stating that Scripture isn't scriptural.
I never saw a true misogynist at CF, many (including myself) were accused of it but they really are exceedingly rare. I've known some in my life but to listen to a feminist their is one behind every bush.
I'm going to have to call you on something here. Where is the guy on CF who comes in and talks about how women should practically crawl around behind the guy? Such a position only exists on that site in the imaginations of some.
And so then the fem's use those guys to undermine the validity of scripture? That is completely reactionary.
Maybe I could point at Athene's position using the same broad brush and reactionary extra-Biblical nonsense and suggest wife-beating as a means of dealing with rebellious wives. I mean it seems like it might work to me, and humans after all are the final arbiters of morality, right?
So it happened, once. And I'll bet that any other men involved in the conversation disagreed with him pretty strongly. Even if they didn't, the existence of a single extreme fringe position shouldn't shape the entire discussion, should it?
You yourself just mentioned the possibilty that the person was a troll so why are you now raising the position as if it's some sort of legitimate problem or a widely held view?
That's exactly the problem caused by "the gals" when they take the one guy who was advocating sex on demand, same guy who was saying that refusal of oral sex was in effect adultery, and making it out as if that's a common position that guys there take.
That's where I think you are mistaken. The problem is not the troll, it's with how the feminists take what the troll said and make it seem like his position is held by the typical male poster. Even though, like Empath said, most of us pretty strongly disagreed with him. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that the troll isn't a problem, it's just that as relates to the larger discord, he's not really causing it. Like Empath says, they LIKE that he posted what he did because it gives them something distasteful to paint all men with.
Here's the thing, if they want to disagree with me on submission or sex or whatever, I've got no problem at all, I just ask that what is disagreed with is what I've actually said, not something said by someone else that they imagine me to have agreed with or some bizzre charicature of what I did say.
Right, but where does the chaos originate? Did you ever see any man objecting to what Scripture clearly calls men to do? Did you see men trying to say that Scripture doesn't really say what it says to men?
Their approach is very much like the leftist "guns cause crime and need to be banned" position. It's not the gun it's the person using it. In this case it's not the topic, it's the people reacting in a, to be blunt, insane manner to it.
Just out of curiosity, is there something in writing as to how exactly the procedure is for getting banned, or is it arbitrary? I was wondering if I will know if I get too close to the line.
There are written guidelines but they are routinely ignored. It is pretty arbitrary but in most cases you will receive a series of warnings progressing in severity before you are actually banned. Sometimes a post will be deleted with no warning and no punative action taken. But, if they connect your user id there with the fact that you post here, all bets are off. They'll likely toss you without warning and without anything that you did that actually breaks the rules. They are VERY sensitive to having staff actions discussed where they can't tightly control the environment.
But as a new poster with no history with any of the other posters, you would probably know you are getting into hot water long before they simply tossed you.
In re-reading over this discussion, I regret that maybe I've been a bit hard on you. I appologize. It's just that what you were saying about the occasional guy who does espouse some pretty problematic views looked a LOT like what they do over at CF where they take one extreme thing said one time and make it out to be the norm. Yes such men with such views exist, and yes they sometimes post on CF. But they are very rare and are in fact quite strongly criticized by the rest of us. But even though we clearly and strongly disagree with the position, it's still brought up as if it's something nearly all men believe.
All I have to say is that they are getting their way. This is what they wanted which I don't think I'm going to stick around much longer.
It took too long. Some users that weren't the problem are banned due to the disrespect that was shown in the forums.
That is the problem as I see it. If you owned a pizza joint and cooked "Chicago-style" deep dish meat lovers pizzas and then advertised yourself as a Vegan Salad bar you have a flawed business model. If you then recruit/hire/attract an aggressive clientele who actually likes pizza and dislikes vegans and hates the thought of their favorite restaurant being turned Vegan, then you could either blame the vegans or you could blame the marketing. "Christian" Forums is blaming the clientele that their false advertising is luring in, and blaming them for the resulting conflicts. Gee, I wonder when that is going to start working?
The only problem I have with that analogy is that I cast myself as the vegan….for some reason I have restaurant analogies on the brain.
It's not silly, it's downright offensive and I just told A.N.D. exactly that.
I think what he's getting at is that the disrespect loop started with those who insist on twisting the words of others.
The really sad part is that if all the nonsensical abuse stuff were stripped away, and the misrepresentations and twistings stopped, at the end of the day I think that there would be far more agreement than disagreement. In terms of the real stuff, the things we actually mean, and the things they really believe, there's not all that much difference. It's just that what they have been trained to say they beleive is a crock of BS.
She probably ran off to wherever Jane and Dallas were banished to. She really can't stand on her own, she needs a cheerleading section.
Yeah, they have been posting over at The White Knight, Hamster and the Wheel (Egalitarian Alliance) for a few weeks, they are over there licking their wounds now. I don't know how long that "love fest" can sustain itself but I have my suspicions. CF has managed to get all of the forum users to unite, apparently we can all agree that we hate their rules. The irony is that I think that Athene, Jane and Tamarra are going to miss people of a more masculine nature: "cantankerous" as Athene said.
For the record, I never called or suggested that Apostolic was a "prophet of Baal", he just didn't like the analogy I drew out of Biblical typology and decided to take offense. Nice to misrepresent someone in a venue where they cannot repond dude. (I did point out that I thought Evangelical Feminism was well represented by many of the modern Ahabs and Jezebels, he self identified.)
I was thinking about this last night. I don't think you can have Christian fellowship when the community is being run by outsiders, especially secretive outsiders. Think about this model a moment, a church where nobody can question the pastor, youth group leader, sunday school teacher, usher? I can approach New Dawn on the MSC, then what? What if she tells me to take my Bible and stuff it? Appeal denied!?
Matthew 18 suggests a remedy to a situation between two believers, this is not implemented at CF, in fact it is flouted. Instead of actually discussing and working through grievances they are shunted into the "memory hole". This is not a Godly model and it defeats fellowship. It also creates a breeding ground for egoists and dictators.
Hebrews 8:4-6 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
The best book I have ever seen on female submission is ME? OBEY HIM? by Elizabeth Handford, a minister's wife. Long out of print, it may be hard to get. It is written for women and it is strictly based on the Bible itself. Mrs. Handford explains what submission really means, and what happens when a women submits.
I told the MSC that what they had done was an extra-Biblical high tech shunning. They need to come out of the darkness and be seen.
Makes me wonder whatever happened to Autumnleaf.
Meanwhile everyone feels like a feeder goldfish in an piranha tank.
I really liked this book when I first read it almost two decades ago not long after becoming a Christian. It was so different than anything I'd been taught growing up. Through the years I've often thought back on the information and examples given by the author. Thank you for the reminder of it, I think I may want to give it a read again. It'll be interesting to see if my perception has changed any and by how much after all I have learned over the past yearl or so.
I was banned within 12 posts. No warnings, nothing. I didn't even use swearwords, nothing that should not first have been a warning. Then they proceeded to delete all my posts. They're a bunch of godless whiners.


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So today, I had to wake up to leave for 8am. Chris, Henri, Gabriel and I had to head into the city to exchange money.
We spent the whole train/subway ride talking about old TV shows and they taught me a lot of portuguese.
When we got into the city, we kind of got lost, the money exchange place was not open again (surprise surprise), so we had to try an find another place to exchange money. We ended up going to a mall to exchange money. The lady exchanging my money was very confused as to why I wanted two receipts, but she understood after.
After we exchanged money, we went to go grab lunch, they wanted to eat Burger King, so I paid for their meal.
After we finished lunch, we got a text saying we were to meet Jackson at Luz station, but he decided that he did not want to go to the church.
When I finally ended back at the base it was 3ish, I thought I would be back around 1:30. When I got back, I was thoroughly annoyed with the DTS Argentina team; the first question they asked me was "where's the (friendship bracelet) string?", when I did not have any idea where my team was yet.
We had a team meeting with thiago and Marcelo to discuss whether out team wanted to go see a soccer game or not; our team decided not to go because mike and I were not feeling up to it – I was exhausted from commuting and walking all day, mike had the shits again (should've taken dukarol…).
It was nice that our team did not need to put it to a vote; the team cares about each other and spending time together was more important to going to a soccer game. We ended up watching mike spray paint for 2 hours, he's so great at what he does. It's cool getting to see someone spray painting from beginning to end, he got a good amount done today.
During dinner, I realized how much portuguese I had actually learned; I was able to talk to Alcione. I talked to Alcione about how much our team loved her; I told her that we think of her as our team's Brazilian mother, and she said that she was happy to be our mom. Kim and I tried to tag team to wish her a happy early Mother's Day (… Yeah, didn't work out too well…she had no idea what we were trying to say….); when she finally understood, she gave us the biggest smile. I'm going to be really sad when I have to say goodbye to her, I know I've talked about her a great deal in my journal, but I really wish you could have the opportunity to meet her and understand why I love her so much. She told me that she gets paid R$50 a day, and it includes all her meals,"; when I tried to ask her if that was a good amount, she did not really give me a clear answer. I really wish there was something more we could do for her other than just cook her dinner.
The funniest part of dinner was when she made an omelette, put it beside me and walked away; I had no idea if she put it there for herself, or if it was for me. I sat there awkwardly eating my meal and trying to figure out if the egg was for me or not. I had to call Leah, Sydney and Kim over to keep me company while we were figuring it out, so I finally asked her, and she said it was for me and we all started dying of laughter.
After dinner, our team spent more time together, we played Uno for 2 hours, basically playing Uno infinity. It was honestly the best night ever; people were snorting, drooling, laughing, yelling and just so wacky and fun. I really like that our team could spend so much time together without wanting to go to bed or need alone time from one another. Deanna drooled on Sydney's lap; Kristina forced a half a cookie into Leah's mouth; Mike was so exhausted; Kim was having the biggest sugar rush; it was tons of fun.
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So today, I had to wake up to leave for 8am. Chris, Henri, Gabriel and I had to head into the city to exchange money.


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The goal of Revelation is to bring encouragement to believers of all ages that God is working out His purposes even in the midst of tragedy, suffering, and apparent Satanic domination. It is the Bible's battle cry of victory, for in it, more than anywhere else in the NT, is revealed the final victory of God over all the forces of evil. As such, it is an encouragement to God's people to persevere in the assurance that their final reward is certain and to worship and glorify God despite trials and despite temptations to march to the world's drumbeat.
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September-October 2010
Table of Contents
1) National Day of Solidarity with Kashmiri People
2) Memorandum on Kashmir Submitted by All India Left Coordination
3) Kashmir Solidarity Letter to PM
4) Towards Realignment of Left Forces and Radicalisation of the Left Movement
5) All India Left Convention Held at New Delhi
6) Delhi Declaration
7)' Naxal' Witch-Hunt: Mirzapur Police Targets CPI(ML) CC Meeting
8) Orissa CPI (ML) Leader Arrested in Land Struggle
9) Police Firing on Farmers in Western UP: A Fact-finding Report
10) Workers' Convention: Onwards to 7th September All India General Strike
Politics in India
National Day of Solidarity with Kashmiri People
– Liberation, September, 2010.
On 20 August 2010, in keeping with a resolution adopted at its founding Convention, the All India Left Coordination (AILC) comprising the Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist [CPI(ML)] Liberation, the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) Punjab, the Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra and the Left Coordination Committee Kerala, observed the National Day of Solidarity with Kashmiri People in various important centers of the country. Through protest marches, dharnas and demonstrations left activists across the country declared a strong message of solidarity to the struggling people of Kashmir and determination to sensitise and mobilize struggling people in India on the question of the repeated betrayals and daily brutalities perpetrated by the Indian state against the people of Kashmir.
In the national capital, a solidarity dharna was organised at Jantar Mantar which was attended by a large number of students, workers, activists and democratic individuals. Addressing the dharna, Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of CPI(ML), condemned the stubborn continuation of a policy of repression of mass demonstrations and the attempt to deny the authenticity of the Kashmiris' outrage and protests. He asserted that nowhere can unity be achieved at gun point or under the army jackboot and added, "In Kashmir the much-touted economic packages cannot assuage the sense of alienation, and are no substitute for addressing the political demands and aspirations for justice and dignity of the people of Kashmir." The Solidarity Dharna was also attended and addressed by CPI(ML) Central committee members Kavita Krishnan, Prabhat Kumar, Delhi State Secretary Sanjay Sharma, All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) leader Rajiv Dimri, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student leader Sucheta De, AICCTU leaders Satvir Shramik and NM Thomas, film maker Sanjay Kak and others.
The National Day of Solidarity with Kashmiri People was observed in 12 different districts of Punjab including Mansa, Sangroor, Bathinda, Chandigarh, Raikot (Ludhiana),Nangal (Ropar), Rahon, Mukandpur (Navan Shehar), Tarntarn, Gurdaspur, Ajnala, Raiya (Amritsar), Mahetpur (Jalandhar), and Mukerian (Hoshiarpur). Main speakers at different places were Rajwinder Rana, Sukhdarshan Natt, Kanwaljeet, Harbhagwan Bhikhi, Iqbal Kaur Udasi, Harmeet Smagh (of CPIML-Liberation) and Mangat Ram Pasla, Harkanwal Singh, Raghveer Singh, Gurnam Dawood, and Rattan Singh Randhawa (of CPM-Punjab) and others. In Assam, the effigy of Chidambaram was burnt in several parts of the state.
In Pune, a public meeting was organized by Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) which saw enthusiastic participation of workers, students and intellectuals. Among others Com. B.J. Kerkar of Lal Nishan Party( Leninist) spoke at the meeting. In Mumbai, CPI(ML) and Lal Nishan Party held a public meeting at Dadar and have planned to hold a dharna for Kashmir at Churchgate on 25 August.
In Bihar, solidarity marches were organized in 20 districts including Ara, Patna, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Purnea, Sasaram, and Kaimur. In Jharkhand, seminars were held at Bagodar and Deoghar, and protest marches and mass meetings were held in Giridih town, Ranchi, Gumla, Dumka and Hazaribagh.
In Uttar Pradesh (UP), CPI(ML) organized solidarity marches and mass meetings across the state at Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gajipur, Mughalsarai, Chandauli, Jalon, Allahabad and Ballia. In Uttarakhand CPI(ML) along with All India Students Association (AISA) held protest demonstrations and effigy burning of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at Pithoragarh, Dehradun and Haldwani.
At Gangavati in Karnataka, CPIML protestors burnt the effigy of the central and the Kashmir state governments. Basavaraj Soolebavi of Karnataka Souharada Vedike, Virupaksha of AICCTU and Peer Pasha, a noted left intellectual addressed the gathering. A memorandum was submitted to the Tahsildar at HD Kote taluk in Mysore district.
In Andhra Pradesh, a dharna was held at the Kakinada collectorate in which 200 people participated; at Vijayawada a padayatra from Gandhinagar to the sub-collector's office culminated in a dharna; at Narsipatnam of Visakha district, a dharna was held at the Revenue divisional office. In Tamil Nadu, solidarity programmes were held at Tirunelveli, Thanjavur, Pudukottai, and Chennai along with poster campaigns and distribution of 10,000 leaflets in many districts. In Puducherry, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Bloc state leaders too participated in CPI(ML)'s solidarity programme.
Politics in India
Memorandum on Kashmir Submitted by All India Left Coordination
(The following memorandum was submitted by the leaders of the four constituents of All India Left Coordination on 12 August.)
The Hon'ble President,
Union of India
Respected Madam,
We the undersigned are deeply disturbed by the situation in the Kashmir Valley, where scores of young people have lost their lives in firing by security forces on street protests. Reports suggest that around 50 people have lost their lives in this manner in the past two months. It may be noted that the street protests this time around started with demonstrations against the fake encounter of three civilians at Macchil. Since then the street protests with the visible participation of women and youth have gained momentum with every instance of killing of people, especially children and teenagers, due to tear-gassing or firing by security forces.
What is even more disturbing is the refusal by the Government of India to concede the legitimacy of the protests by Kashmiri people. Instead, attempts have been made to suggest that the protests are all orchestrated by militants or anti-nationals. The death of young people in police firing usually witness popular anger and protest anywhere in the country. The Kashmiri people are exercising their natural democratic right to protest against excesses by security forces. The attempt to deny the legitimacy or authenticity of the protests, and the stubborn continuation of a policy of repression of mass demonstrations, are contributing to the alienation and anger of Kashmiri masses. Draconian laws like Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) are emboldening security forces to commit crimes like fake encounters and killing of civilians.
The response from the Prime Minister of India too is wanting. In a long-delayed statement, he has promised various economic packages and on the key political question, has said that "autonomy can be considered if there is a consensus." It is clear that in Kashmir, economic packages cannot assuage the sense of alienation. It is only if justice is done in cases of fake encounters and such human rights violations, draconian laws like AFSPA scrapped, and the military shadow lifted from civilian life in the Valley can some measure of trust be built. As for the political question, we recall that former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao had after all said "the sky is the limit" as far as autonomy for Kashmir is concerned. It is necessary for the Government of India to come up with a credible political proposal of maximum autonomy without making 'consensus' any condition for such a proposal.
We appeal to your office to intervene to ensure that the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act AFSPA is scrapped; moves taken to investigate cases of human rights violations and excesses of security forces and the guilty punished; and immediate measures taken towards a democratic political solution to the issue of Kashmir.
Dipankar Bhattacharya Mangat Ram Pasla
General Secretary Secretary
CPI(ML)(Liberation) CPM Punjab
Bhimrao Bansode M R Murali
Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra Left Coordination Committee, Kerala
Politics in India
Kashmir Solidarity Letter to PM by UK- and US-based Organisations
(On 20 August, coinciding with the Kashmir Solidarity Day called all over India by the All India Left Coordination, various organisations in the UK and US submitted a letter to the Indian Prime Minister via the Indian High Commission in London. The text of the letter along with signatories is reproduced below.)
The Prime Minister of India,
Prime Minister's Office
South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, India-110 101.
20 August 2010
Dear Prime Minister,
We the undersigned wish to express our grave concern about the ongoing killings of civilians by security forces on the streets of towns and villages of Kashmir. The brutal murders of more than fifty unarmed people, a majority of them children and teenagers, in the space of two months, demonstrates a complete disregard for the humanity of the Kashmiri people on the part of the security forces who, directed by the Indian state, are acting with complete impunity.
The current phase of violent repression against Kashmiris began with attacks on demonstrations against the cold-blooded killing of three civilians at Macchil by security forces in a fake encounter. On 11 June 2010 security forces opened fire with tear gas and live ammunition on one such demonstration by unarmed civilians, killing Kashmiri schoolboy Tufail Ahmad Mattoo. In protest against this murder, people, women and youth in particular, came out in very large numbers but security forces fired on each protest, and the death toll of protestors has risen daily.
We are extremely concerned that Kashmiris are not even being allowed to express their anger in public protests when children are killed in police firing. Some of the numerous incidents which indicate the gravity of current human rights violations include, on 1st August alone, the shooting and then bludgeoning to death of a seven year old boy by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Batamaloo; the torture and killing of a disabled youth Arshid Ahmad (17) of Reshipora Sangam by CRPF personnel inside their camp; and the killing of a fifteen-year-old girl, Afroza Teli, who was shot in the head during a protest demonstration in Khrew village in Pulwana district.
We also remind you that current events are taking place against a background of two decades of violent repression in Kashmir which has resulted in up to 32,000 women being widowed, nearly 100,000 children orphaned, approximately 10,000 men 'disappeared', and countless rapes of women by the army and paramilitary forces.
As representatives of Indian and South Asian diaspora organisations and civil liberties organizations in Britain we would urge you to act immediately to ensure:
– An immediate end to the atrocities against Kashmiris by security forces
– That those who committed and sanctioned these atrocities are brought to justice
– Immediate repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA) which provides impunity to security forces
– That the military shadow is lifted from civilian life in Kashmir
– That the Indian government demonstrates a credible commitment to a democratic political solution in Kashmir
Yours sincerely,
Amrit Wilson, South Asia Solidarity Group
Avtar Jouhl, Indian Workers' Association (GB)
Raj Pal, South Asian Alliance
Jasbir Singh, The 1857 Committee
Estella Schmid, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
Marai Larasai, Imkaan (a national charity supporting Black, South Asian, and Minority Ethnic women's organizations working on violence against women)
Saima Yousaf, National Union of Students
Anu Mandavilli, on behalf of Friends of South Asia, USA
All India Left Coordination
Towards Realignment of Left Forces and Radicalisation of the Left Movement
Dipankar Bhattacharya, Liberation, September, 2010.
Four fighting organizations of the Left – Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) [CPI(ML) (Liberation)], Communist Party Marxist (Punjab) [CPM (Punjab)], Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) [LNP](L)] of Maharashtra and Left Coordination Committee (Kerala) [LCC (K)]– formed an All-India Left Coordination (AILC) through a joint Convention held in New Delhi on August 11, 2010. The Convention adopted a Delhi Declaration with a 12-point agenda which will serve as a guideline for coordinated action and intervention by the four organizations in the coming days. In its Declaration, the AILC rejected both class collaboration/parliamentary cretinism and Left adventurism/anarcho-militarism and resolved to strengthen the Left movement by all means while exploring opportunities for broader Left unity and cooperation with democratic forces. As its first all-India action, the AILC called for observing August 20 as a National Day of Solidarity with the People of Kashmir and Protest against State Repression.
The AILC was certainly not formed overnight, it was the upshot of years of mutual cooperation and shared quest for a united platform to radicalize and rejuvenate the Left movement in the country. The CPI(ML)(Liberation) and LNP(L) have a history of working together for nearly two decades. Ever since the Communist Party of India (Marxist ) [CPI(M)] split in Punjab in the wake of the Thiruvananthapuram plenum in 2000 leading to the formation of CPM Punjab, CPI(ML) and CPM Punjab have had close ties of cooperation. The LCC (Kerala) of course came into existence only recently, but it was preceded by years of ideological struggle inside the CPI(M) and ever since it started taking shape as an independent organization, it evinced keen interest in becoming part of an all-India process of realignment and radicalization of the Left.
This united move surely marks a first step towards fulfilling a long-felt need. For much of the last three decades, the CPI(M) and Communist Party of India (CPI) had virtually monopolized the Left space in the dominant media and naturally also in the layman's perception. The CPI had a bigger presence than the CPI(M) in the Hindi belt while the CPI(M) dominated the show in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. Over the last few years, the CPI has been reduced to a pale shadow of its past in the Hindi belt and now increasingly the CPI(M) too is facing a similar situation in West Bengal and Kerala. This marks both an opportunity and challenge for all sincere and radical forces of the Left to step up their role and dispel all notions of a 'terminal crisis' and 'irrelevance' of the Left in India. The AILC has its role cut out in this context.
The other significant feature regarding AILC is that it is not yet another proverbial case of 'birds of the same feather flocking together'. Neither is it an attempt at unity of Marxist Leninist (ML) forces nor is it a case of erstwhile CPI(M) forces reuniting among themselves. Rather it is a case of historically diverse and also to an extent geographically separated streams of the Left seeking a common all-India ground in today's critical situation. A closer look at the constituents of the AILC will bring out this important aspect.
Here is, for example, LNP (L) of Maharashtra which had branched out of the CPI in the 1940s questioning the CPI's 1942 line, played an active and important role in subsequent years in many worker/peasant/general democratic movements in Maharashtra right from the Sanyukta Maharashtra Movement to the historic textile strike of the 1980s, and moved away again in the late 1980s from the parent Lal Nishan Party's increasingly pro-Congress reformist stance to reiterate its Leninist moorings. This is what paved the way for close cooperation between the LNP (L) and the CPI(ML)(Liberation).
The CPI(ML) too has evolved in two different directions – while CPI(ML)(Liberation) has emerged as an all-India revolutionary communist party rooted in militant mass struggles, the PWG of Andhra Pradesh has moved away from the CPI(ML) stream to acquire a 'Maoist' identity by merging with the Maoist Communist Centre. As far as the CPI(M) is concerned, in the later years of 1970s, it had benefited considerably from the first phase of the CPI(ML) movement – the CPI(ML) base in many areas had returned to the CPI(M) and in states like West Bengal and Kerala, it was the CPI(M) which succeeded in appropriating much of the impact of the CPI(ML)-led struggles and the people's desire for democracy following the dark years of semi-fascist terror of the Congress.
Yet the CPI(M) promoted a hostile attitude to the CPI(ML) and tried to suppress every voice of ideological dissent within the party as a sign of 'Naxalism'. The CPI(ML) on the other hand always stressed Left unity on the basis of independent assertion, and today, Left forces coming out of the CPI(M) find a warm welcome from the CPI(ML) precisely on this common ground.
As noted in the Delhi Declaration, the AILC marks only a modest beginning. As of now, it is just a platform of coordination with a shared approach and understanding on most urgent issues of the day. But as representatives of all the four organizations remarked in the convention, it is a modest first step, which nurtured properly, may well grow into an important long march; a small beginning hinting at great possibilities of realignment and radicalization of the Indian Left. Let us carry it forward in this desired direction.
All India Left Coordination
All India Left Convention Held at New Delhi
– Liberation, September, 2010.
A day-long All India Left Convention was held on 11 August 2010 at Speaker's Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi, jointly sponsored by CPI(ML)(Liberation), CPM(Punjab), Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) of Maharashtra and Left Coordination Committee (Kerala). With more than three hundred activists from across the country attending the Convention, the Speaker's Hall was packed to capacity.
The convention was chaired by a four-member presidium comprising Comrades Ramji Rai, Bodh Singh Ghuman, K S Hariharan, and Bhalchandra Kerkar. The secretaries of the four parties – Comrade Mangat Ram Pasla, Secretary, CPM Punjab, Comrade Bhimrao Bansode, Secretary, Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra and Comrade M R Murali, Secretary, Left Coordination Committee Kerala, and CPI(ML) General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya – were also present on the dais.
Inaugurating the Convention on behalf of the four parties, CPI(ML) General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya welcomed the gathered activists and leaders, and also briefly introduced each of the four parties. Outlining the ruling class assaults on people's rights and democracy, and the range of people's resistance movements, he said that real forces of the Left were naturally committed to championing these movements. The Convention aimed at addressing these issues and advancing these struggles by launching an All India Left Coordination to forge a closer unity and coordination among these movemental left forces. As a broad guideline for this coordination and unity, he said, the four parties had prepared a 'Delhi Declaration' to be discussed and adopted by the Convention.
Following the inaugural address, the 'Delhi Declaration' was read out – in English by Comrade Harkanwal Singh of the CPM Punjab and in Hindi by Comrade Ramji Rai of CPI(ML) Liberation. More than a dozen leaders and activists placed their views on the various issues, challenges and perspective outlined by the Declaration.
Addressing the Convention, AISA General Secretary Ravi Rai said that if peasants' land was being grabbed for corporate loot, similarly students' education too was a victim of corporate loot, and the students' movement would resist the assaults on democratic rights – not just in campuses but in the whole of society. Comrade Kumarankutty of the LCC Kerala drew a shocking portrait of the Kerala CPI(M)'s growing forays into business and the blurring of the line of demarcation between communist politics and bourgeois commerce.
CPM Punjab leader Comrade Harkanwal Singh highlighted the need for an assertion of the revolutionary Left agenda at a time when the official Left had jettisoned that agenda. LNP(L) leader Comrade Uday Bhat spoke of the working class movement in Mumbai and Maharashtra, especially the revival of textile workers' struggles against the corporate grab of mill land. Comrade V Shankar of the CPI(ML) expressed the hope that the emerging unity of fighting Left forces would facilitate the independent assertion of the revolutionary Left over the capitulationist politics of parliamentary opportunists.
CPM Punjab leader Comrade Raghvir Singh spoke about farmers' resistance to imperialist agricultural policies imposed in the name of WTO. Comrade Uddhav Shinde of the LNP(L) and Comrade Bauke spoke of the acute agrarian crisis in Maharashtra and other parts of the country where farmers were committing suicide. Comrade Inderjeet Singh Grewal (leader of the CPM Punjab's trade union organisation, the CTU) spoke of the struggles against power privatisation in Punjab, and called for struggles to be intensified against the repressive anti-people and pro-imperialist policies of the Governments at Centre and States.
Comrade Kavita Krishnan, National Secretary of AIPWA, spoke about the assaults on women's rights and freedoms in the name of 'honour', and also of how women were bearing the brunt of state repression in the 'Operation Green Hunt' areas. Comrade Malleswar Rao of the CPI(ML) spoke about the recent police firing in Sompeta, Andhra Pradesh, and the struggles against land grab and loot of mineral resources in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
After the detailed discussion, the Convention adopted the Delhi Declaration enthusiastically. Comrade Swapan Mukherjee of the CPI(ML) presented a series of resolutions which were also adopted by the house. The Convention adopted a resolution condemning the brutal repression and bloodshed of civilians in Kashmir, demanding a democratic political solution to the Kashmir issue and calling for a 'National Day of Solidarity with the Kashmiri People' to be observed all over the country on August 20, 2010. Other resolutions included one against the UPA Government's utter failure and callous attitude towards price rise, a demand for a probe into the corruption at the Commonwealth Games, and another demanding scrapping of the Nuclear Liability Bill. Another resolution adopted extended full support to the Central Trade Unions' call for a General Strike on 7 September 2010. Comrade Swapan Mukherjee also outlined the plans for the AILC to hold Conventions at several state capitals and other centres, and also to send solidarity/fact-finding teams to various centres of people's resistance.
The Convention culminated with the address by top leaders of the four parties. Comrade Mangat Ram Pasla, General Secretary, CPM Punjab said that the Left Coordination marked a small beginning, but one that was destined to grow big in the coming days. He said the four organisations were aware of their mutual differences but were determined to unite on the basis of the essential points of agreement. He called upon comrades to implement the Delhi Declaration with the commitment and courage that Bhagat Singh epitomised. LNP(L) Secretary Comrade Bhimrao Bansode gave a brief account of the historical evolution of the LNP(L) and said it had been overly preoccupied with trade union struggles but was determined to play a more active political role. Comrade Unnithan, leader of the LCC Kerala, presented a speech on behalf of his party, observing the degeneration of the official Left, and calling upon the Left Coordination to take up the banner of the heroic struggles of Punnapra Vayalar and Kayyur and the sacrifice of hundreds of communists – a banner that was being abandoned by the revisionist leadership of the CPI(M) today.
The concluding speaker at the Convention, Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya, said that the Convention and the Coordination just launched represented a ray of hope for unity of the Indian Left movement. "Just as communists part ways at some turning points," he said, "they can also unite at other junctures." He said "Naxalbari was very much a product of the revolutionary tradition of the Indian communist movement – it was an attempt to resurrect Telangana when the ruling classes faced their gravest crisis after 1947 and Charu Mazumdar always described the CPI(ML) as the same Communist Party that produced the heroic martyrs of Kayuur and Telangana, Tebhaga and Punnapra-Vayalar. Today as circumstances around us are changing radically, we need to take a bold and forward-looking step towards realignment of all sincere, struggle-oriented and mass-based Left forces and rejuvenation of the Left movement to meet the challenges of the day."
All India Left Coordination
Delhi Declaration
– Liberation, September, 2010.
(Adopted at All-India Left Convention sponsored by CPI(ML)(Liberation), CPM Punjab, Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra, and Left Coordination Committee, Kerala, and held at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 11 August 2010)
Recent years have been witness to an aggressive US imperialism pushing the world into renewed war and occupation as well as an unprecedented financial crisis. In the name of globalisation, imperialism has intensified attempts to appropriate and exploit the natural and human resources of the developing world, but while accentuating exploitation and disparities, globalisation has also led to intensification of all the inherent contradictions of global capitalism and new waves of popular anti-imperialist resistance the world over.
The Indian ruling classes have adopted a strategy of integrating India into this US-led imperialist order on economic as well as strategic plane. Reckless implementation of pro-imperialist, pro-corporate policies – coupled with the pro-landlord agrarian strategy being pursued since Independence – by the Indian ruling classes has pushed the country into alarming depths of an all-round crisis marked by relentless rise in prices, chronic mass hunger, widespread unemployment and rampant corruption. Even as tens of millions of the country's poorest people reel under starvation, the debt-trap-turned death-trap continues to claim the lives of crisis-ridden peasants in their hundreds and thousands. Amidst systematic loot and siphoning of the country's wealth and precious resources, the working people are being relentlessly exploited, displaced and dispossessed in the name of 'development'.
The recent farcical verdict on the world's biggest industrial genocide which happened a quarter century ago in Bhopal has unmasked a most reprehensible and thoroughly corrupt nexus among state power and corporate power undermining every principle of justice and human and national dignity. Meanwhile, the growing incidence of oppression of dalits and women and the shocking spectacle of 'honour killings' in the National Capital Region and its surroundings point to an ugly social reality beneath the gloss of glamourised and globalised development.
While the Indian people are seeking answers to these maladies and alternatives to these disastrous anti-people policies and the corrupt and criminalized political culture, the ruling classes and their parties, whether in power or in opposition, are making a clamour for greater liberalization to give more concessions to capital and a harder state to unleash more repression and restrictions on the people.
Against this backdrop, four fighting organizations of the Left, viz., CPI(ML)(Liberation), CPM Punjab, Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) Maharashtra, and Left Coordination Committee, Kerala, have resolved to come together and form an All-India Left Coordination with a view to strengthening the Left movement in the country.
While pursuing the goal of a countrywide Left resurgence, the AILC will focus on the following key areas of a democratic agenda:
Resisting the whole gamut of neo-liberal pro-corporate pro-imperialist policies being followed almost without exception by all governments at the Centre and in the states, and fighting for an immediate halt to the ongoing spree of disinvestment/privatization measures and for curbing penetration of FDI in key sectors of our national economy and other sectors of strategic/national importance,
Opposing Indo-US strategic partnership and growing subordination of Indian foreign policy to the global hegemony of imperialist forces, US imperialism in particular; promoting friendly relations, especially people-to-people ties, with neighbouring countries, and uniting with the struggles of the peoples of the world against globalisation, war and imperialist machinations,
Fighting for an alternative path of self-reliant and people-centred development as against the present imperialist-dictated, corporate-driven and big capital-led 'profit-centred development' resulting in relentless rise in prices, growing hunger and unemployment, sharp regional and social inequalities, landgrab, displacement, resources-grab/deprivation and serious environmental degradation – an alternative that would promote relatively more egalitarian and employment-intensive and less energy-, resources- and capital-intensive path of development,
Fighting for a comprehensive policy regime ensuring fundamental rights to food, shelter, education, healthcare, basic amenities, work and social security for all,
Fighting against every facet of agrarian crisis, for adequate protection of Indian agriculture from the adverse WTO diktats, for scrapping of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act 2005 and Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for thorough-going implementation of land reforms and promotion of small peasant-centred agricultural development,
Launching struggles for the nationalisation of wholesale trade of foodgrains and for creation and strengthening of a Universal Public Distribution System (PDS) for essential commodities of daily use as well as for subsidised agricultural inputs and automatic inclusion of all agricultural and other rural workers, small peasants, artisans, unorganised and contract workers in the below poverty line (BPL) category,
Resisting the growing state-led assault on democracy, fighting for a democratic political solution of the long-standing problems of Kashmir, North-East and the Maoist insurgency, for scrapping of draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, disbanding of Salwa Judum, and halt to Operation Green Hunt and anti-minority witch-hunt in the name of combating terrorism,
Resisting communal violence, and caste and gender oppression and fighting for minority rights and affirmative action for development of deprived sections within minority communities, and the rights and dignity of dalits, adivasis, women and all marginalized sections,
Fighting for labour rights for all sections of workers, especially the right to living wages, job security, universal health and social insurance, trade union rights including mandatory recognition through secret ballot and democratization of the workplace/industrial relations, adequate protection for migrant workers and unorganized workers including agricultural labour, and against contractualisation, outsourcing, hire-and-fire, and indiscriminate privatisation which are hallmarks of the neoliberal offensive;
Promoting the women's movement against patriarchy and oppression, to struggle for gender equality, justice, and women's dignity, as well as equal rights and opportunities in society as well as in the workplace; resisting violence both within and outside the home; challenging obscurantist practices that demean women; resisting all attempts to curb women's freedom in the name of upholding tradition or culture; demanding speedy legislation against sexual harassment in workplaces, 'honour' killings and sexual violence, as well as for 33% reservation in Assemblies and Parliament.
Promoting the student-youth movement to secure 'right to education and employment', demand a Common School System to ensure schooling of high quality for all, and resist commercialization and pro-imperialist restructuring of education and denial of democratic rights to the student community,
Promoting people's cultural awakening against the corporate cultural invasion that denigrates women and working people, the feudal culture of 'honour killing' and various retrograde social and cultural practices that seek legitimacy in the name of tradition, fighting for democratization of social, professional and inter-personal life and supporting the progressive democratic aspirations of the intelligentsia.
The AILC will strive to build a countrywide movement over these issues while also fighting for the resolution of various pressing local problems.
The AILC rejects all kinds of fundamentalism, terrorism and national/sub-national chauvinism and upholds the values of democracy, secularism and social progress in every sphere of national life
Within the Left movement, AILC will fight against the trend of class collaboration and rightward drift and degeneration while rejecting the line of Left adventurism/anarcho-militarism.
To advance the Left-democratic agenda and strengthen the Left and democratic movement, the AILC will work consistently for broader Left unity and seek cooperation with various democratic forces including individual activists.
The formation of the AILC marks only a modest beginning and we appeal to all activists and well-wishers of the Left and democratic movement to join and help us in this endeavour.
Struggles in India
'Naxal' Witch-Hunt: Mirzapur Police Targets CPI(ML) CC Meeting
– Liberation, September, 2010.
The CPI(ML) Central Committee held its last meeting at Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, on 1-3 August 2010. Following the meeting, the Mirzapur police has made a deliberate attempt to intimidate the local party leaders in the name of an 'anti-Naxal' offensive.
On 6 August, a police official hand-delivered a letter addressed to Mohammad Salim, the National President of the Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) and a senior leader of the party in Mirzapur. The letter is signed 'In-Charge, Naxal Cell, Mirzapur', but there is no name accompanying the signature. The letter states that "information was obtained" that a CPI(ML) programme was organised at Mirzapur, in which office-bearers and activists from the "Naxal-affected states" of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, as well as 'Naxal-affected' districts of UP participated. The letter adds, "Mirzapur is an are extremely sensitive and Naxal-affected" district where there are "continuous reports of movement of Naxalites."
The letter goes on to say, "We have come to know that you have organised a Conference and cadre meeting in this Naxal-affected area, in which suspicious people took part. Being an Indian citizen and a senior office-bearer of CPI(ML), it was your topmost duty… to obtain permission from the district administration for such a meeting. You are already aware that Section 144 is in place all over Mirzapur, and no conference or programme can be held without permission in an unconstitutional way." In the manner of a show-cause notice, the letter then asks Comrade Salim why action should not be initiated against him and participants in the meeting for "100% violation of Section 144 CrPC," and warned that if no answer was received by 7 August, action would be initiated against him for which he would be solely responsible.
The Mirzapur party has responded to the 'letter' via the District Collector, demanding to know who the 'In-charge, Naxal Cell' is who has signed it.
The CPI(ML) has condemned in the strongest terms this attempt to brand its Central Committee as a haven for 'suspicious' elements. Rather, it is the behaviour of the UP police that is suspicious and shady. Well aware of the antecedents of the CPI(ML) and its leadership (including the fact that it is a party registered with the Election Commission of India, and CCMs who attended the meeting included several former elected people's representatives and leaders of recognised Trade Union, Agricultural Labour and Peasants' organisations with lakhs of mass membership), the UP police deliberately chose to target the party and its highest leadership.
It may be recalled that following the CPI(ML) State Committee meeting in Gorakhpur (February 12-14 2010), the UP police and intelligence officials had interrogated district-level CPI(ML) leader Rajesh Sahni for two hours, demanding to know why intelligence officials were not allowed to attend the State Committee meeting, and implying that this meant some illegal activities were being plotted in the meeting! The interrogators also asked why the party insisted on opposing the Government and Green Hunt, and warned that if the party did not change its stance on Green Hunt, it was liable to face action. Comrade Sahni was told that the police had considered arrested the entire State Committee. Subsequently, various other members of the district committee also received calls making 'enquiries' about each other and about the party functioning.
The UP police and Government are clearly taking advantage of the 'Green Hunt' climate to defame and intimidate people's movements and harass political forces that are voicing dissent.
Struggles in India
Orissa CPI (ML) Leader Arrested in Land Struggle
– Liberation, September, 2010.
Comrade Tirupati Gamango, State Committee member of CPI(ML), was arrested by the Rayagada police when 500 CPI(ML) Liberation activists occupied 24 acres of ceiling surplus land at Banduguda panchayat of Bisam Cuttack block of Rayagada district. Along with Comrade Tirupati, Comrade Rajendra Hikka was also arrested.
The party had been demanding redistribution of ceiling surplus land to local adivasis as per the rules of Orissa's Ceiling Surplus Act but the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-led government, while failing to distribute land that is the adivasis' rightful due, instead distributed 6000 acres of land to the MNC Vedanta.
On 4 August, as part of an ongoing land rights campaign led by the party, CPI(ML) activists occupied 24 acres of land. Following the arrest of Comrade Tirupati Gamango, a protest demonstration was held at Gunupur sub-collector's office on 9 August, where a delegation of state committee members including Comrades Yudhistira Mahapatra, Ashok Pradhan, and Muralidhar Behera met the sub-collector. A bail hearing for Comrade Tirupati and Comrade Rajendra Hikka is due on 26 August.
Recently, reports by official panels indicate how the Orissa Government deliberately colluded in the large-scale violation of laws by Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) and Vedanta. The same Government, while colluding in corporate crimes and grab of adivasis' and peasants' land, is out to arrest and harass activists who are leading adivasis' struggles for land.
Peasant and Agricultural Workers' Struggles
Police Firing on Farmers in Western UP: A Fact-finding Report
– Liberation, September, 2010.
(On 14 August, ironically the eve of Independence Day, farmers protesting against corporate land grab were fired upon in Western Uttar Pradesh. A team of the All India Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM) comprising AIKM Vice President Comrade Prem Singh Gehlawat and National Executive member Comrade Afroz Alam visited the site and met with protesting farmers. Main findings and observations of their fact-finding report are summarized below.)
Farmers whose land is being acquired for the Yamuna Expressway and the associated Hi-Tech cities have been agitating for long against land acquisition. The Yamuna Expressway would be 165 km long, acquiring the fertile lands of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Aligarh, Mathura, Agra and Hatras districts of Western UP and affecting 1192 villages. Jay Prakash (JP) Associates are the builders and developers of this project. Other than the expressway, some 30,000 bighas of land on either side of the Yamuna are being acquired for building townships and commercial ventures. It is this prime land which the Government is acquiring from farmers at throwaway prices and handing over to JP for mega profits that has irked the farmers and brought them out from their farms to the battlefield.
Villagers from the six villages – Zikarpur, Kansera, Jehangarh, Udaypur, Tappal and Kripalpur villages of Tappal block in Aligarh district had been sitting on an indefinite fast since 27 July under the banner of Sarva Dal Kisan Sangarsh Samiti, led by Ram Babu Katelia. 88 villages of Tappal block would be affected as 510 hectares of their farm land would be acquired for building the township. Their main demands were 1. Increase of land rate from the existing Rs. 412/m2 to Rs. 870/m2, the rate given to farmers in Noida two years ago 2. Residential accommodation in the new township to the farmers whose land had been acquired for building the township 3. Residential accommodation to landless labourers of the area who would lose means of livelihood after land acquisition.
Background of movement
Farmers had not wanted to sell land initially. Land was first acquired from small farmers, mostly Jatavs (Dalits) in Kripalpur, Birja Nagla at the rate of Rs 336/m2. Farmers say only 22.5% of them have agreed to sell their land. Farmers filed a writ in the High Court against land acquisition. The judgement on 2 July went against them. After that, between 8-11 July, the district administration in collusion with JP razed to ground the standing crop of farmers of the six villages, building embankments to encircle their lands and forcefully evicted them. Farmers in Udaypur broke these embankments. The Government had also deviously acquired possession of the land in land records even before the agreement with farmers was finalised. The farmers were then compelled to start an indefinite fast from 27 July against the state government. Thousands of farmers from the nearby villages would gather daily at the dharna in solidarity with the movement.
The Incident
On 14 August, at about 5 pm, a plainclothes Station Officer of Tappal Police Station along with some masked goons of JP reached the dharna site and arrested Ram Babu Katelia. When farmers resisted, they were fired upon by the SO and four people received gunshots. Hearing that their leader had been kidnapped, villagers from the neighbouring villages started gathering at the scene. Meanwhile, a PAC truck reached there and uprooted the tents at the dharna. The people then realized that Katelia had been arrested by the police and they retaliated against the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC). The PAC fired on the unarmed villagers, killing three, including two children. The PAC entered Zikarpur village and mercilessly beat up even women and children. The villagers fired in self-defence and in the ensuing melee one PAC officer was killed. The farmers were in no mood to relent and ultimately the PAC had to flee. Meanwhile some farmers erected blockades on the Aligarh-Palwal road. Next day, on 15 August, thousands reached the dharna to chalk out the next course of action. The neighbouring towns of Tappal, Jattari and Zewar observed total bandh. In adjoining Mathura, farmers blocked the roads. A large part of Western UP was celebrating its own version of Independence.
On 16th, a massive Kisan Panchayat was organized at the Dharna. Leaders of all major political parties addressed the Dharna. Com. Prem Singh Gehlawat, the National Vice-President of AIKM and Com. Afroz Alam, the national Executive member of AIKM also reached the spot and addressed the gathered villagers and visited their homes.
To dowse the spreading fire, Mayawati rushed her Cabinet Secretary to Aligarh where Katelia was jailed. Under pressure from the movement, Katelia was unconditionally released, a compensation of 10 Lacs was announced for those killed by the police and the land rate increased from 412 to 570/m2.
Those killed in police firing include 13-year-old Mohit, a Class V student from a Jatav family; 13-year-old Prashant Sharma of Jahangarh and 26-year-old Dharmendra of Sarol village. 13-year-old Rafiq Khan, a Class VIII student of Kansera village, has also disappeared since the day of the firing and is presumed dead. Comrade Prem Singh visited the homes of all four.
The UP Unit of CPI(ML) has declared that it will observe 23 August as a Black Day all over the state against the corporate land grab and police firing on farmers.
Workers' Struggles
Workers' Convention: Onwards to 7th September All India General Strike
– Liberation, September, 2010.
All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) held a Workers' Convention on 12 August 2010 in Constitution Club, New Delhi "Against Corporate Loot, Privatization and Assault on Workers' Rights". The Convention was attended and addressed by leaders of Maharashtra Sarva Shramik Mahasangh, CTU (Punjab) and Left Coordination Committee, Kerala. Worker activists and leaders from Delhi and neighbouring states like Punjab, U.P. and Uttarakhand participated in the convention.
The convention was presided over by Comrades N M Thomas, Hari Singh, R N Thakur and Bhagwant Singh Samao of AICCTU, Bhim Rao Bansode of Maharashtra Sarva Shramik Mahasangh, P Kumanrankutty of Left Coordination Committee, Kerala and Comrade Randhawa of CTU (Punjab). The main speaker at the convention was CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. A resolution supporting the All India Strike was read out by Rajiv Dimri.
The General Secretary of AICCTU Swapan Mukherjee welcomed the participants and also delivered the concluding speech. Apart from members of Presidium, the convention was addressed by Vijay Kulkarni of Maharashtra Sarva Shramik Mahasangh; Ram Kishan, Secretary General of All India Health Employees and Workers Confederation; leaders of AICCTU – Babulal (U.P.), Santosh Roy (Delhi), K.K. Bora (Uttarakhand), Satbir Shramik (MTNL); Ravi Rai, General Secretary of AISA; Kanwaljeet, leader of RYA (Punjab) and others.
The convention resolved to give a fitting rebuff to the anti-worker approach of the powers that be and intensify the nation-wide campaign for the success of the all India General Strike on 7 September 2010 called by Central Trade Unions including AICCTU in the backdrop of intensified onslaught on the working class by the UPA Government at the Centre and State Governments of all hues and people's resistance.


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Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I got some pictures of a old church on the first day in Tennessee but I forgot to post about it so that's what I'm going to do today 🙂 It was very beautiful there and I had a lot of fun going through some of the old churches and homes. 🙂 So, here are the pictures! I hope that you enjoy looking at them!
So, what did you all think? It was very beautiful and I had a great time going through the old churches!
Have a wonderful week!
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The pet-friendly workplace
May 23, 2008
Seems to be the cool thing in America now – Amazon and Google allow you to bring your pet into work.
In a recent survey by Dogster and Simply Hired, 66 percent of dog owners said that they would work longer hours if they were allowed to bring their dogs to work, another 32 percent of respondents said that they would take a pay cut to bring their dogs to work. Survey respondents believe that dogs help lower stress levels and build camaraderie amongst employees.
(from SimplyHired.com)
Was talking to John about this and he says "My pet is a swarm of bees" 🙂