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Mainers Rights Network
An excerpt from: https://sites.google.com/site/mainersrights/
...promoting the rights of Mainers - ALL MAINERS - under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turned 60 on December 10, 2008. On Human Rights Day 2007, the United Nations Secretary General launched a year-long UN system-wide advocacy campaign to mark this important milestone. The initiative celebrates the Declaration and the promise that has made this document so enduring: “Dignity and justice for all of us”.
FDR’s Unfinished “Second Bill of Rights” – and Why We Need it Now
Excerpt from FDR's January 11, 1944 State of the Union Message to Congress enumerating a Second Bill of Rights:
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all – regardless of station, race, or creed. Among these are:
America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
Complete text available at The American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara.
From WIKIpedia:
Roosevelt's January 11 address was delivered via radio, due to the President's illness at the time. During the last portion dealing with the Second Bill of Rights, he asked news cameras to come in and begin filming for later broadcast. This footage was believed lost until it was uncovered in 2008 in South Carolina by Michael Moore while researching for the film Capitalism: A Love Story.
The footage shows Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights address in its entirety, as well as a shot of the Five Rights printed on a sheet of paper.[2]
...promoting the rights of Mainers - ALL MAINERS - under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Rights are the foundation of our society.
- Know your rights! Claim your rights!
- Build them strong! Keep them strong!
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turned 60 on December 10, 2008. On Human Rights Day 2007, the United Nations Secretary General launched a year-long UN system-wide advocacy campaign to mark this important milestone. The initiative celebrates the Declaration and the promise that has made this document so enduring: “Dignity and justice for all of us”.
FDR’s Unfinished “Second Bill of Rights” – and Why We Need it Now
Excerpt from FDR's January 11, 1944 State of the Union Message to Congress enumerating a Second Bill of Rights:
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all – regardless of station, race, or creed. Among these are:
- The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
- The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
- The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
- The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
- The right of every family to a decent home;
- The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
- The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
- The right to a good education.
America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
Complete text available at The American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara.
From WIKIpedia:
Roosevelt's January 11 address was delivered via radio, due to the President's illness at the time. During the last portion dealing with the Second Bill of Rights, he asked news cameras to come in and begin filming for later broadcast. This footage was believed lost until it was uncovered in 2008 in South Carolina by Michael Moore while researching for the film Capitalism: A Love Story.
The footage shows Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights address in its entirety, as well as a shot of the Five Rights printed on a sheet of paper.[2]
Monday, August 2, 2010
Help End Jan’s Hunger Strike to Get USA Today to: “Please cover: HUNGER!”
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Help End Jan’s Hunger Strike to Get USA Today to:
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“Please cover: HUNGER!”
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SUBJECT: Please cover: HUNGER! [Hunger Striker, Jan Lightfoot, asking for support via email in making poverty a real issue in mainstream media]From: YOU@youremaildomain.com
To: accuracy@usatoday.com
Cc: janshouse@yahoo.com
USA Today,
I am trying to help Jan Lightfoot end her hunger strike by telling you that the story of hunger needs to be brought in front of the American people. HUNGER must not be buried in USA Today's backpages, on the rare occasions it is covered at all.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME
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Subject: [mainersrights] Hunger Striker asking for support via email in making poverty a real issue in mainstream media
Hunger Striker asking for support in making poverty a real issue in mainstream media
To help Jan, please e-mail accuracy@usatoday.com and tell them you are aware of Jan's hunger strike and that the story of hunger needs to be brought in front of the American people. It should not be a bottom of page 42 news story. Please send a copy of emails to USA Today to Jan at janshouse@yahoo.com. You can also contact her at that email if you have questions or want to support her in other ways.
From: Larry Dansinger Jan LightfootLane of Fairfield is now on a 30 day hunger strike (begun in late July) to make the media aware of the plight of those victims of rising hunger and homelessness. She is asking that people write an email to USA Today to let them know that she (Jan) is on the hunger strike and to have USA Today cover the problem of hunger in major stories. If 500 people e-mail paper (USA Today) Jan will suspend her hunger strike.
Larry Dansinger via Pete Sirois and Jan
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