Issue #14
A Better Life...
Fall 2011 - Winter 2012
"Jesus was the first socialist , the first to seek a
better life for
all mankind."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Canadian Nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but
powerful reality....."
Paul Kopas
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"It
is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Matthew 19:24
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"The U. S.
is our trading partner, our neighbour,
our ally & our friend & sometimes we would like to
give them such a smack!"
Rick Mercer
Canadian Comedian
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CAROLE
PAYNE - CONCEPT DESIGNER / PUBLISHER
Mission Statement
SPIRITROOTS COMMUNICATIONS is dedicated to spiritual justice supporting the human rights of the born & unborn citizen.
Active compassion, solidarity in human dignity, stewardship of the environment, fair trade within a sovereign, pro-union Canada....
SPIRITROOTS COMMUNICATIONS is Canada's Independent Spiritual Voice
Prison Bars Cannot Confine Ideas
After WWI, crippling poverty, high inflation made for the moral ugliness
of massive economic disparity & racial - social divisions. While
the Winnipeg Trades & Labour Council called for a peaceful strike
the working poor were brutalized; labelled "Bolsheviks" or
"Foreigners." The press used the slur "bohunks"
to degrade the poor from Hungary or Bohemia (Slavic peoples). Government
& Business became partners with the Canadians claiming superiority
as "Good White Anglo-Saxons British Citizens".
Tragically, in order to sustain the largesse
profiteering of unregulated capitalism - blind prejudice becomes an
elitist comfort zone. Survival of the fittest translated to detachment
from the suffering of newer Canadians, hardly Christian charity. The
T. Eaton Company supplied "specials" police to physically
squash the protest. Women strikers unplugged telephone lines right after
scabs plugged them in. These women walked beside their men as members
of the Central Strike Committee & the Women's Labour League. On
Bloody Sunday 2 protestors were murdered with 30 abused then arrested.
It took twenty years after the Winnipeg General Strike of May 1919 for
collective bargaining to be recognized in Canada.
Carole Payne
"Unions may legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only
available means to the justice owed by workers."
Economic Justice For all #104
Catholic Social Teaching.
Behind the Numbers:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Blog
http://www.behindthenumbers.ca/
SPIRITROOTS COMMUNICATIONS ...Canada's Independent Spiritual Voice
Carole Payne, Publisher/Writer - Activist/Poet,
Copyright @ 2011, Carole Payne, Cambridge, Ontario, CANADA
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Feature Article
Labour in Movement: Raising A Disability
Advocate
- By Carole Payne
Letter to the Editor
Lies! Lies! Will They Ever Stop?
By Don Parker
Converging Against Injustice
International Criminal Court
EXCERPT FROM HANSARD:
Ontario Children's Aid Oversight
GREN: Grand River Environmental Network
The Ignored Feminist:
Pro-Left & Re-defining Pro-Life
By Carole Payne
Spiritual Politics
Best
Buddies, Wilfred Laurier Chapter
Contact: Matt Riehl
International
Indigenous Network for People
With Disabilities (IINPWD)
Where
are the children?
Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
Faking It: Blue NOT Green:
Logic Over Logo
By Carole Payne
Private, Public Journey
Green Peace Canada, Blog
Tribute to Deep Ecologist David Orton
Jack Etkin, Face to
Face With David Orchard
re-published with permission
Opinion/Advocacy Column:
Canadian Biotechnology
Action Network
Facebook->TaxJusticeNetwork
Integrity
Canada - Gay & Lesbian Anglicans & Friends
Tar Sands
Watch
Polaris Institute's Energy Program
Previous Issues:
Issue # 13 Spring
- Summer 2011
Issue
#12 - Winter 2011
Issue
# 11 - Fall 2010
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"Under CETA (the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement)
- Canadian governments, at the federal, provincial & municipal levels
could find themselves less able to forge policy in the public interest....Ontario
alone could see drug costs jump $500 million, reports the Globe &
Mail. "
Ontario Health Coalition
"PepsiCo, Kraft Foods & Nestle use aborted
fetal cells in their development of flavour enhancement of their products.
Pepsi is paying Senomyx for HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney cells).
Still Thirsty? Boycott anyone?"
Carole Payne
Bio-tech Critic
"Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or
'courage within in the face of diversity'....
disability is an art... "
Neil Marcus
Ability Advocate
"It was as if despite all the challenges, then
& now - that he had arrived for the exact purpose of making noise
on behalf of those who insist upon their civil liberties.
I'm here, not queer, but autistic - so get used to it!"
Carole Payne
Proud Parent of Autistic Canadian
"If gay & lesbian people are given civil rights,
then everyone will want them."
Author Unknown
(seen on button)
"When the first specialist, a male doctor, diagnosed
that my toddler,
'being within the autistic spectrum would have minimal language development'
I quipped;
"When I think of God, She doesn't look like you.
Don't tell me what my son can & can't do."
Carole Payne
Left, Pro-Life Feminist
"What makes life more meaningful & joyful are spiritual values,
which help us to respect
our rivers, mountains, sea & one another.
Therefore we need a massive, global theological
renewal & reconstruction regarding our
understanding of God, the Creator & the Sustainer, in the light
of the environmental
crisis facing the earth.....Christians you are
"earth-keepers". Rise up to your calling."
Pastor Kumalau Tawali
Theologian, Poet-Lecturer
"For if the various ways are
examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation."
Tirukkural 25
Hindu Compassion
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