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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kiaora APWSL members</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not at my home to clear my emails regularly at
present . I am looking after neices, nephew and animals for my brother. I
am also having great difficulty breaking in some orthotics so that I can
continue to be a postie. It will all come right soon, I hope.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am supposed to be writing an introduction of
myself and emailing everyone in APWSL.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry about the delay. I am not sure how to go
about this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Really, it is a bit of a surprise that
I have the role of a subregional co-ordinator with my total lack of
experience in such things, except on a worksite level with my union
position.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For a long time I have been looking for
training of some sort.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am off to a one day workshop that the NZCTU
is putting on regarding 'Women in the Workplace' this month , which is a small
start.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have no problem with confidence as my role as a
delegate ,or confronting the ignoramuses we work for, or connecting with
fellow workers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not have great opinions on how the world
should be run, and prefer to believe that given the right conditions, people
(with good guidance and education available at all times) will choose to do
whats best for others, without doing the wrong thing for
themselves.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do know that no-one wants to be on the bottom of
the social heap, and that if stuck in that place without help of the right
kind, that the unaddressed grief this causes will make human expression go
awry. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greed on any level is a denial of the rights of
others, and we don't have to go to the fascist extremists to see
it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All of us, with courage can find evidence of it
inside our psyches, the difference being what we choose to do about it. I
think it starts with recognising it in ourselves in the first
place.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can see denial in people with seemingly
altruistic ideals. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Instead of recognising it in ourselves and
exploring the options of transforming it , we can choose to see it as, for
example, the uneducated working peoples problem, and easily
deny it as a problem to work out on a personal
level. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know of a university degree that
necessarily addresses these things, but of course this sort of
work can be done. I believe that people can sense it when they meet people
that are doing this kind of work. I also believe that doing this
sort of work on ourselves leads to the right action at the time it's
needed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am commited to this kind of personal development.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not want to support my own life at the expense
of others hardship, yet find myself surrounded by sweat shop products giving me
the illusion of being 'better off' than a lot of people. I can afford to
eat and pay rent, and am nearly out of debt from my trip overseas where I met
APWSL members, who I'm happy to have met.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Apart from this my experience is having been
independant and working since I was 15 yrs old. I am now 44 yrs old, and have
worked as a postie at three different times in my life adding up to 15yrs
working for NZPost. I am the branch delegate for the Postal Workers Association,
and a member on our executive. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am in for the long haul in the struggle against
an increasingly oppressive regime globally, nationally and locally.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards to all </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carol Bridgens, APWSL Aotearoa/New
Zealand </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=apjpyama@blue.ocn.ne.jp
href="mailto:apjpyama@blue.ocn.ne.jp">YAMASAKI Seiichi</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apwslmembers@labornetjp.org
href="mailto:apwslmembers@labornetjp.org">ＡＰＷＳＬ ｍａｉｌｉｎｇ ｌｉｓｔ</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 03, 2005 2:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [APWSLMembers] Correct website
address</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>The website address in my last mail was
for administrator only.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>This is the correst
address.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><A
href="http://misc.labornetjp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apwslmembers">http://misc.labornetjp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apwslmembers</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Yamasaki</FONT></DIV>
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