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Submitted by LD50 on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 9:26am
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Hello again, RadRef folks.
I'm back with another quotation I wish you could check out for me. Much of the early leg work and research has been done on this one and you can find that here at a Georgist website called Wealth and Want. Here's the passage, allegedly from a letter Lincoln wrote to a Mr. Gridley, of the firm of Davis, Lincoln and Gridley, Attorneys, Bloomington, IL. and quoted in this book, which can be found on Google:
Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time
Robert Henry Browne, M.D., 1901
"The land, the earth that God gave to man for his home, his sustenance, and support, should never be the possession of any man, corporation, society, or unfriendly Government, any more than the air or the water, if as much. An individual company or enterprise requiring land should hold no more in their own right than is needed for their home and sustenance, and never more than they have in actual use in the prudent management of their legitimate business, and this much should not be permitted when it creates an exclusive monopoly. All that is not so used should be held for the free use of every family to make homesteads, and to hold them as long as they are so occupied.
"A reform like this will be worked out some time in the future. The idle talk of foolish men, that is so common now, on 'Abolitionists, agitators, and disturbers of the peace,' will find its way against it, with whatever force it may possess, and as strongly promoted and carried on as it can be by land monopolists, grasping landlords, and the titled and untitled senseless enemies of mankind everywhere."
http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Browne_Lincoln_Men.htm
A Mr. Asahel Gridley, a lawyer himself and perhaps the same Gridley in Lincoln's firm, did exist and Lincoln even represented him in some legal matters. See this this article:
Lawyers' impact widely felt for 175 years
Also found here in a slightly different context with some references to "land sharks". Scroll down for Lincoln:
I respect the man who properly named these villains land sharks. They are like the wretched ghouls who follow a ship and fatten on its offal.
The land, the earth, God gave to man for his home, sustenance and support, should never be the possession of any man, corporation, society or unfriendly government, any more than the air or water -- if as much. An individual or company, or enterprise, acquiring land should hold no more than is required for their home and sustenance, and never more than they have in actual use in the prudent management of their legitimate business, and this much should not be permitted when it creates an exclusive monopoly. All that is not so used should be held for the free use of every family to make homesteads and to hold them so long as they are so occupied.
The idle talk of foolish men, that is so common now, will find its way against it, with whatever force it may possess, and as strongly promoted and carried on as it can be by land monopolists, grasping landlords and the titled and untitled senseless enemies of mankind everywhere.
On the other questions there is ample room for reform when the time comes; but now it would be folly to think we could take more than we have in hand. But when slavery is over and settled, men should never rest content while oppression, wrongs and iniquities are enforced against them.
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/land-question_i-l.html
Thanks,
LD
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 10:56am
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I'm looking for an agency, ngo, or other non-profit, which is NOT a Christian missionary or ministry, to which I can send some immediate support Kenyans to assist with the recent struggles there.
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 2:54pm
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I'm looking for a "progressive" or "radical" children's booklist to help select books for my 6-year-old son. So far, the only thing I've found is the "Radical parenting reading list" at www.infoshop.org.
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Submitted by KAZROLF on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 4:31pm
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My wife (49 years old) of thirty years had an affair a year ago with her best friends husband, they broke off the affair and we tried to work with a marriage counselor. We have four children from the ages of 17 to 23 years of age. Now she said she has been doubting her sexuality and has fallen in love with a 37 year old women who we have know since she was 12 years old. My question is how common is it for a heterosexaul women to have a life stlye change this late in life?
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 2:03pm
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I am trying to find out if more women choreographers became established during the height of the US aids pandemic, roughly 1984-1996, then before or after. I came to ask this question because when looking for a topic to write a graduate application paper and read Judith Lynne Hanna's artice "Patterns of Dominance: Men, Women, and Homosexuality in Dance." in _Homosexuality and Homosexuals in the Arts_, Wayne Dynes, Stephen Donaldson, eds. Garland Publishing 1992 pp198-223. This paper described that while women make up the overwhelming majority of dancers, the upper levels of managers and choreographers and star dancers are generally males.
This led me to wonder, did this demographic breakdown shift during the early years of the AIDS?HIV pandemic? Unfortunately, all the works I've come across that deal with the topic of AIDS/HIV and dance are about gay men and the dance community's reaction to loosing so many of them.
I'm looking for sources where I can tease out the answer to this question, as well as if anyone else has addressed it. I'm using this for a graduate application that is due Janurary 15th.
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 3:06pm
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hi,
i'm looking for info about the corridors of the future, the new federal plan to facilitate globalization. i have no trouble finding past stuff about any of the corridors (the 6 highways i- 95, 70, 15, 10, 5, and 69), but i can't find any info about future construction plans for them. if you can i'd like to know when/where they plan on working on these so we can stop them before they start.
hopefully if we stop the necessary infrastructure from being built to bring in "resources" this economy can't continue and we can bring it crashing down.
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Sun, 12/16/2007 - 3:38pm
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In the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Overton V. Bazzetta, the opinion referenced an incident that happened in a prison: "Visitors were assigned specific seats or tables and were expected to remain where assigned. However, these expectations often were not realized. This was particularly true with respect to child visitors, who often left their assigned position and mingled wiht other children or even with other prisoners. It was during such a wandering period that a 3-year-old child was sexually assaulted by an inmate, an incident that the district judge described as a 'public relations disaster' and Bolden [Daniel Bolden, Deputy Director for the Bureau of Correctional Facilities] termed 'a nightmare.'"
HOw or where would I find out in what prison this occurred?
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 5:58pm
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Hey there. I'm looking at MLS/MLIS/etc. programs and would like to know which, if any, library schools are particularly friendly to the aspiring radical librarian. I am interested in rural libraries, so I'm particularly concerned with developing the skills necessary to make radical programming (& collection development) work in conservative communities.
More generally, did your MLIS program help you to develop the practical skills you've needed in your work, rather than just discussing theory?
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 6:33am
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Can you suggest possible sources of information about leadership development programs in the United States and internationally that focus on leadership for social change, social movement building and/or public interest leadership (as distinct from programs focused on leadership in management or industry). One use of this information is to begin the development of a global database of socially conscious and progressive leadership develpment programs. Hope you can help. Thank you.
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Submitted by Anonymooose on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 12:24pm
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It seems as though there are no listings on your site for librarians to find radical videos to add to their libraries. Paper Tiger Television has an AMAZING archive of videos that challenge mainstream media and education. I would love to see their catalog link to this page. Our organization, Deep Dish TV, also has a very powerful catalog. One of the dream projects on creating an anti-racism shelf could be created out of our programming alone. You would be amazed at all the materials you would find. And there are so many other groups as well... Have you thought about adding something like that? I'm sure Paper Tiger and Deep Dish would be able to help.
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