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Seventh
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
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Assemblée mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires
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Asamblea Mundial de Radios Comunitarias
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Dear Kole, I think I may speak for myself if not some others when I say that your impassioned comments do not fall upon deaf ears. Perhaps what we all learn as time passes, so quickly, is how long it takes to bring about positive change. When I was 16 in 1961 and studying economics at school for my final exams my aim was to bring about a redistribution of the world's resources so that there would be no more poverty in terms of food, education, health and all the other things that are vital for a decent quality of life for all. I then thought in my youthful arrogance that a decade should be enough to straighten out the conservative agenda of the oldies. Since then I have worked, taught, travelled to many parts of the world and experienced both the extremes of poverty and wealth. I have also had two marriages and three children, now all adult, and two, like you, studying at University. They also experience frustrations as I have. Hopefully, I have done a few decent things along the way. I have also made some near fatal errors of judgment. The answer is not to be found in the "-isms" and "-ologies" but in the human heart. There are no racial, national or tribal monopolies on either goodness or wickedness. Each race has its saints and sinners. The problem lies in the insecurity, fear and uncertainty of the human spirit. While we approach others in the spirit of distrust and aggression and hoard our goods and talents for ourselves nothing will change. In November 1992, on a return flight from Africa, I wrote the following: DEVELOPMENT Ennobling, enriching, empowering. Those whose dark eyes and simple lives Are perceived as "needy". Needs and wants - life's conundrum Wants made more urgent by commercial cajolery Needs unsatisfied by the plastic toys Of western technology. I've travelled between the worlds of rich and poor To seek the human thread of kinship. I've found it delicately poised in a smile, a touch, a hug of unguarded love. Moved beyond the confines of my own limited perspectives of understanding To "The Other" of Millennia. Maybe this poem partially expresses both the impotence and optimism of at least one "cyber-elder". Sincerely, Lyn Maciver **************************************** Gerri Marston Communications Management Suite 2/49 Keppel STreet PO Box 1774 Bathurst NSW 2795 Telephone 02 6331 2338 Fax 02 63334 524 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMARC 7 Foro Virtual Forum Virtuel http://www.amarc.org/amarc7 to unsubscribe / pour se desabonner / para abandonar : e-mail "unsubscribe amarc-1 " to: [email protected]