As a political coordinator for a labor
union that represents both public and
private sector workers throughout New
York State, I have seen how important
union representation is for working men
and women. Our members do difficult
work, such as taking care of the
disabled and sick, or plowing our roads
after a snowstorm. Thanks to their union
contracts, fought for over decades, they
are treated with more of the dignity and
compensation they deserve.
In
recent years, however, there have been
intensified concerted efforts by big
business and elected officials at the
national and state levels to have unions
not exist at all. In the private sector,
many good-paying union jobs in
manufacturing have been outsourced to
countries where labor is cheap and
unions are almost non-existent. Click here
to read more.
Can contempt be
animated? Yes it can! Film animation
artists since 1909, when Gertie the
Dinosaur defiantly turned her back to
the audiences, have been inter- ested
in animating the contempt people have
for the world. And when animation is
successful, it gives form to contempt
as a means of opposing it.
I began to learn this in my study of
the philosophy Aesthetic
Realism, founded by the American
poet and critic Eli Siegel. He showed
me that I wanted to give artistic form
to something I disliked myself for
very much—how I could mock and make
fun. That form is in this great
Aesthetic Realism principle: “All
beauty is a making one of opposites,
and the making one of opposites is
what we are going after in
ourselves.” Click here
to read more.
"What
Does a Person Deserve?"
The Palladium Times, Oswego,
NY
By Lynette Abel
"World
Should
Be Owned by People Living in It"
The Record, Troy, NY
By Lynette Abel
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