fits and starts

Sheesh, I have an audience. Well, then it behooves me to mention that I'll be posting sporadically, especially since I'm having a somewhat major surgery in the next, oh, 7 days or so.

My first piece of feedback to attend to:

I'm in a radical Childcare Collective, and here's some information about them...thanks Melisa for pointing out that I had left this out of my bio. Bad Max!

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The Childcare Collective was formed both in response to the very real need for childcare among social justice organizations and as part of a long-term effort to build a multi-generational movement with parents, women and children at its center. The Childcare Collective hopes to play a part in building a movement that recognizes and prioritizes the voices and political agendas of women and mothers, especially women of color, low-income women, and immigrants. The needs of parents have traditionally
not been recognized, and parents’ access to quality childcare is sporadic at best.

We are committed to provide grassroots organizations and movements composed of and led by immigrant women, low-income women, and women of color with trained, competent, patient and politicized childcare providers for one-time events or ongoing meetings. We are committed to taking leadership from the organizations we partner with, and we aim to help organizations take steps to organize self-sufficient, sustainable childcare if they identify that as an institutional need. We see childcare as a political act. To that end, we put the utmost emphasis on accountability, both to the organizations we partner with, and to the children and parents we work with.

In order for any movement to succeed, its ideas must be passed on from generation to generation. The Childcare Collective works to make sure that children are enjoying themselves and are informed about the work that the parents are doing. We hope to help children situate themselves as valuable and important members of a community and a movement.

For more info or to get added to our listserv, e-mail childcarecollective - @ - lycos.com (remove the spaces and dashes...spam prevention)