Today, ignoring the Bush Crime Family's abuses, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted without dissent by the General Assembly of the United Nations, December 10, 1948. Read it here -- and work to see we all follow it. Please and thank you.
Maybe someone should have read it to George W. Bush. Or he should have read it instead of My Pet Goat. Article 5 says: "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
Lots of good stuff!! Years ago I bought a copy of it in the form of a little blue book at the United Nations building but I admit I have never read the whole thing. Will do that. Join me. And again, let's implement it!! MORE thanks.
Politics is in the news but for peace and justice sake we must not forget the importance of settling the writers' strike. Isn't the drivel on TV enough to goad you to act? I just wrote Peter Chernin (FOX's CEO), thanks to a link at the UnitedHollywood blog. Visit the link to learn more about composing YOUR letter to make a positive difference. (Personalize their template.) And visit the blog regularly for continued updates and actions, as well as the Writers Guild. While we want a full settlement of the strike, let's encourage independent agreements like Dave Letterman signed for his Worldwide Pants company.
Labor Day, and the American workers are still being screwed by today's political practices. In Hanover, NH, on August 23rd, John Edwards addressed this issue aptly. His prepared remarks are the title link but here is a YouTube clip of part them, transcribed below.
Transcription of the Clip:
Will corporate greed be all that we value as we move forward into this global economy, or will we put workers and families first, so that all jobs pay fair wages, every American has health care and corporate profits work for democracy -- not the other way around?
Will we face our future .... This is unfortunately the game of American politics and in this game, the interests of regular Americans are being left behind. Real change starts by being honest. And I want to say something at the beginning -- the system in Washington is rigged. And I'll say it again, it is rigged, and our government is broken.
It is time for us to end that game and we can end this game together.
And I want to go, I want to go one step further. because it is also time for my party, the Democratic Party -- the party of the people -- to end it.
The choice for our party could not be any clearer. We cannot replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats. Just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of another is NOT what we need.
The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate.
It is time for us to make a clear statement about who we are as a party. It's time to end this game. It's time to tell big corporations and their lobbyists who have been running things for too long that their time is over. It's time to challenge politicians to put the American people's interests ahead of their own calculated political interests, to look the lobbyists in the eye and just say no. -- John Edwards, Hanover, NH, August 23, 2007
