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Joyce Wolpert, licensed counselor and movement therapist, looks backward and forward at our life's journey.

OCCUPYING…STILL

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    “We want the same thing.”  My father spoke these self-revalatory words in the mid-1970’s when his forays into the world as a CPA brought the dawning awareness that Black Americans’ desires for a supportive job and viable family life were no different than our own.  This wasn’t born of some study of civil rights theory or even Jewish values as much as just a plain as day admission that all human beings crave and deserve a decent life.     Thirty years hence, my Dad has now passed.  His personal growth expanded to having a variety of relationships with some African Americans he came to call his friends.  And yet, in many respects, their quest for a decent life has remained elusive.     Now we have the “OCCUPY” movement calling for fairness based on a redistribution… read more

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I liked the way you contrasted your personal experience with stress triggered by the adventure of getting lost in nature in your own neighborhood in contrast to the traumatic stress that your health care provider subtly revealed which was rooted in poverty, violence and poor health that you now recognize as legacies of racism. Writing for a Jewish audience, the legacies of racism are probably more akin to the historical trauma of the Holocaust than to income differentials in our market economy. If the Occupy Movement can effectively challenge the legitimacy of power relationships which underlie the inequalities that continue to divide us and stunt our individual and collective potential, we can reorganize our society to promote the civil and human rights that all people deserve.  But this transition will be staunchly resisted by those who continue to benefit at the expense of others and believe that they “deserve” a longer and easier life because of the personal choices that they have made. It remains to be seen if the fiscal crisis which has trapped the 99% of the population can help more of us see that
individuals cannot readily escape the forces of capitalism which operate through electoral auctions and a global marketplace that is indifferent to human rights with the protection of police and the military and a corporate-dominated media, so that we can collectively organize and nonviolently change the rules of the game to eliminate the inequalities which as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett show in “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” are actually responsible for most of the pathologies and pain in our highly unequal society. Thanks for sharing your insights into this remarkable opportunity to restructure our society.

Posted by Bob Griss on 11/03/11 at 10:40 AM

Please email me Joyce Wolpert’s blogs.  Thank you.

Posted by Eileen Yoffe on 11/02/11 at 04:33 PM

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