Welcome to transforming power
Welcome to the transforming power web site. Below is Judy Rebick's blog, which also appears on rabble.ca. In order to participate in a real-time discussion with Judy and others who comment on her posts, please create a login for this website so that your comments will be immediately posted. Otherwise, non-registered posts will be sent to a queue and need to be reviewed by the site moderator prior to being posted. Throughout this website, you can explore the book itself, what readers have to say, or video and audio interviews about the book. Leave a mini review or a comment about the book on the buzz page. Add to the stories and ideas of the book under each chapter on the book page and of course you can respond to the blogs right here. We are hoping the web site becomes a continuing epilogue for the book but for that we need you.
Comment from Nancy Bleck
gyne oncologists in Regina plan to close their practice Sept!
The situation here is similar to what happened in Newfoundland and Labrador. Two highly sought specialists who could work anywhere in Canada have had it with the working conditions. One doctor says she'll close her practice Sept 1st, the other doctor says she'll follow since the workload can not be managed by one doctor. The "government" is still negotiating. On May 14th there was a meeting with all SK gyne oncs and the bureaucrats and all they could come up with was an agreement that last til June 30th! We need some support here in Sask. Our support group OCATS has been working hard to get our situation known and it seems a non issue. I just don't understand.
As of May 14th I'm sure that all new patients diagnosed with gnycologic cancers will have to travel over 300 miles now to see a specialist.
We need support from women across Canada. See our Facebook page, OCATS.
Judy would you consider writing a story for us on your blog.
congratulations on your wonderful book
Dear Judy: Today I finished reading your wonderful “Transforming Power” book. Congratulations!!! I will always remember the day I met you on Harbord St. when I was living in Alvin and Glenna’s house and you came to visit. You were the cousin I longed for. I think of you as practicing the “politics of inclusion” (my term). You always reached out to me and to others. I was especially impressed at Frank Shuster’s funeral when I was signing the book and you came and invited me to sit with you.
I also think of you often as I go to an aboriginal women’s full moon ceremony every month at the meeting place near where I’m sending this letter. I wrote a poem that I want to share with you.
PEACE HUGS. IT IS A CIRCLE
Peace is a circle. It is encompassing.
There is no peace for me
Unless there is peace for you.
I see no other way.
Peace for Jews without peace for Arabs
Is not real peace, in my opinion.
Peace is a circle. It is humanistic,
Encompassing good, bad and in between.
PEACE HUGS
And when it hugs, it embraces hell, hunger,
Animality, anger, tranquility, rapture,
Learning, realization, altruism, enlightenment,
And, all states of awareness.
Peace is a circle, like a hora dance.
Left, right, swaying side-to-side, forward and back
Arms raised as in a truce,
Arms raised as in peace.
I also wanted to share a poem of poet/philosopher Daisaku Ikeda. He has been my mentor for the 30 years I’ve been a practicing Buddhist (nam myoho renge kyo). He says: “…Quite simply, there can be no democracy unless the citizens of a country realize that they are sovereign, that they are the main protagonists, and that with wisdom and a strong sense of responsibility, take action based on that realization. Democracy cannot be successful in its mission unless the people rouse themselves to become more informed and involved, unless they unite, unless they establish an unshakable force for justice and keep a strict eye on the activities of the powerful…”
Anyway…I wanted you to know that not only are you respected, but loved.
All my mixed up thoughts are falling into place
We were so glad to see you again in Calgary. As I read your book, all my mixed up thoughts for the last few years are falling into place. I've got hope again.
Sylvia Hawkins
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Education submitted by Derwyn Davies Winnipeg
What we inflict on children is hardly mentioned in your book, which I have just read and appreciated. The prevailing orthodoxy in education is blatant brainwashing to establish competitive and selfish individualism,reinforced by unquestioned use of behaviourist testing to standardize the rank-ordering of individuals according to the socio-economic status of their family. Furthermore, most students are indelibly labelled sub-standard and rejected, leading to the deplorable state of youth crime and violence. Derwyn Davies Winnipeg
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