Issue #13: Radical Dignity
and Progressive Democracy
Spring - Summer 2011
"Were it not for hope the heart would break."
Scottish Proverb
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will
set off a revolution."
Paul Cezanne
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"The Labour
Union Movement is organized upon the principle that the strong shall
help the weak."
Author Unknown
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You, yourself,
as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve love & affection.
Buddha
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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
Famous Five
The Canadian Supreme Court ruling that women were not persons under
Section 24 of the BNA act was overturned by the British Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council thanks to Emily Murphy (the British Empire’s first
femaleJudge), Irene Maryyat Parlby (farm women’s leader/activist, first
female Cabinet Minister in Alberta), Nellie McClung (suffragette &
member of Alberta
Legislature), Louise Crummy McKinney (first woman elected to the Legislature
in Canada/Britain), Henrietta Muir Edwards (women’s advocate, founding
member of the VON)....a radical change in
thought, action & the judicial approach to the Canadian Constitution.
The date: October 18, 1929.
"Genocide begins, however, improperly in the conviction
that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social
& political discrimination."
Andrea Dworkin
Anti-pornography Feminist
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 Looking
into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Letter to the Editor
Drawing a Line in the Sand: The Heck
With Political Correctness
= By Roy McGuire
Converging Against Injustice
Strength Despite Persecution of Christians
- By Carole Payne
Gay Affirming Christian Churches
New Harper/Obama Border Deal about
Corporate Power - Not security & trade
- By Jack Etkin
Pension Benefits for All Canadians
- Canadian Labour Congress
- By Neil Jensen
Spiritual Politics
Shoutdown to Showdown
- By Carole Payne
Wildlife Hysteria: Nova Scotia's War
on Coyotes
- By Bill Mac Donald, Redtail Nature Awareness & David Orton, Green
Web
KAIROS & CIDA Funding
– From KAIROS
Private, Public Journey
EXCERPTS FROM HANSARD
Poverty
Canadian Rights & Freedoms
Nuclear Waste
Budget
Neo-Liberalism as a Water Balloon - Video
- By Tim McCaskell
Stop Corporate Tax Dodgers
By The Uncut Movement
Opinion/Advocacy Column:
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
http://www.cape.ca
Canadian Association for Community Living
http://www.cacl.ca
Toronto Catholic Worker/Zacchaeus House
zacchaeushouse@sympatico.ca
Choose Life McGill/Quebec Life Coalition
http://www.cqv.qc.ca/en/category/tags/choose-life-mcgill
SAMARA
http://www.samaracanada.com
WARCHILD
http://www.warchild.ca
Previous Issues:
Issue
#12 - Winter 2011
Issue
# 11 - Fall 2010
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"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, & not society,
from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence
& moral persecution."
Mahatma Gandhi
"You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the Tabernacle , if you do
not pity Jesus in the slums. ... It is folly - it is madness - to suppose
you can worship Jesus in the Sacraments & Jesus on the throne of
Glory, when you are sweating him in the souls & the bodies of his
children."
Bishop Frank Weston
1923, Anglo-Catholic Conference
"The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves
poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of & belief
in love."
Dorothy Day
Christian Anarchist, co-founder of Catholic Workers Movement, 1933
Definition: ShopJackets = Fake Shop Fronts
"A town in the west of Scotland is to install fake shop fronts
to disguise high streets left vacant in the economic downturn."
Dunbarton uses fake shop fronts to beat downturn
BBC Glasgow & West Scotland, Feb. 2011
" Some pro-life gays also oppose abortion because of the sexual
orientation - selection abortions may become widespread as sex-selection
abortions. If a gene which inclines or predilects people towards homosexuality
is discovered, they note that parents could decide whether they want
to abort the child who might end up homosexual. The heart of gay
opposition to abortion, of course, is the realization that the unborn
child is an unique individual. "
Liam T. A. Ford/Writer
"A Liberal Pro-Life Group"
The Harvard Crimson, April 1992
"I am a person, an educated woman, a mother of one of Canada's
neurologically challenged citizens. My son leaves the toilet seat down,
does his own laundry & cooks me breakfast. It's more than evident
that he is a fine man, a loving son & will make a great husband
one day!"
Carole Payne
Anglo-Roman Catholic Social Democrat
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