Realizing Ordinary: Proposition 6

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

What if they closed prisons to open child care centers and schools?

To illustrate its opposition to California Proposition 6, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland runs this image, which made me wonder ...

What if they closed prisons and used the money to open child care centers and schools? What if teachers and day care workers were paid as much as prison guards?

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Ordinary Heroes Award

They are everywhere. In corporate highrises and in remote villages miles far from cell phone towers. They're sitting next to you on the bus. They're building schools in Africa. They're pounding the marble halls of Congress, seeking protection for our children, our health, our food, water, air and planet. They save heirloom seeds, plant organic gardens, teach the rest of us how to adopt sustainable lifestyles in our throw-away, buy-more culture. They save the forests, rivers and oceans without which we cannot survive.Their work brings the vision of the Village of Ordinary a little closer to reality every day. They show us how wonderfully possible it is to live in a world much like Ordinary right now. They are my Ordinary Heroes. I tell their stories on this blog frequently, because it is people like them, people like you and me, who are building Ordinary.

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