Re: [SycamoreCanyon] Tense day -- all OK [and an encouraging word on interest in community organizing]

I am glad it worked out well.

As people with relatives who work in hospital environments, we get another look-see at many of these aspects of their sociology 

 

 

 

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From: Hunter Gray <[email protected]>
To: Bear Without Borders <[email protected]>
Cc: Redbadbear <[email protected]>; SycamoreCanyon <[email protected]>; marxist <[email protected]>; newgreencanada <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 7:49 am
Subject: [SycamoreCanyon] Tense day -- all OK [and an encouraging word on interest in community organizing]


  
    
                  

I spent much of yesterday at the local Portneuf Medical Center with a family member who underwent surgery -- some of this exploratory in nature. It was, as these things always are, very tense. My primary job was "bolstering" and providing reports. Our family member is a true/blue trooper. Physicians, with whom I talked substantially, were not especially foreboding in their preliminary assessments but the surgery was necessary and did, in itself, engender some risk.  It all turned out well.  Some fascinating interior photos indicated no signs whatsoever of malignancy [this really doesn't run in our family] and a now pro forma biopsy with results to come in a few days appears just that -- pro forma.  The lead physician definitely does not expect, as he put it, to see any "bad stuff."  By the time we left the hospital, it was almost empty and a very strong cold wind was blowing.  Josie and Jeep provided transportation and Eldri had food prepared for our back home arrival. The Furry Friends were happily excited.
 
As a human and a sociologist, I am always interested in the people in a hospital waiting room -- and certainly one where the ethos is very serious.  And, as always, there was a sense of solidarity.  When our cell phone wouldn't connect, others were quick to loan me theirs.
 
The other day, I posted -- and widely -- some key excerpts from our website's very long page on Community Organizing.  I also asked a number of individuals if they could pass it along in order to further its reach.  In the past several months, visits to that page, and to related pages -- including those on our various organizing campaigns around the country and over several decades -- have been spiking significantly.  We receive daily website data from out server -- including a very long list of "search phrases."  Many of these involve specific organizing techniques and strategies.  Our Organizing material, certainly inherently radical, is very practical first-hand nuts-and-bolts stuff, deliberately devoid of academic lingo [which has its place, but elsewhere] or the twaddle characteristic of some arm-chair types.  My effort the other day to broaden our "coverage" has been [and is being] successful.  I am grateful to those who took the time to read what I'd posted.  And I am certainly grateful to those who spread it around. [I acknowledged that in notes to those who kindly contacted me.]
 
Hunter [Hunter Bear]

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ 
and Ohkwari' 
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)
 
See the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
 
For the new, just out (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial Introduction by me:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
 
Personal Background Narrative (with many links):
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm