TED Community » Yvette Maranowski
About Me
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- Location:
- United States, Portland, OR
- Current organization:
- Mom
- Past organizations:
- Community Organizer, Mom's Rights Advocate, Advocate for the Voiceless, Advocate for the Marginalized
- Current role:
- All of the Above
- Gender:
- Female
- Areas of expertise:
- Writing, Research, Critical thinking, Fostering and facilitating dialogue, Graphic Arts, Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking, Networking & bringing people together, Brainstorming creativty process, Advocacy and Policy Systems, Radio interviews and reporting
- I am:
- Activist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Connector, Event planner, Idea generator, Parent, Promoter, Student, Writer/Editor
- Associations:
- Oregon Community Health Worker Association, The Portland Alliance--NAAME, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, American Indian Movement
- Languages:
- French
- Universities:
- Reed College, University of Oregon, Ohlone College
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Mothers rights.
An idea worth spreading
Mothers rights. Empower the moms because moms are women and women are 1) half, or more than half the population; 2) moms main thing is that they raise their kids inspired by love, this is where most of us learn love and love is what will determine if we all will survive and thrive; 3) every mom is connected to at least one child, if not more and sometimes many more, and children are the future. Every single mom represents a connection to people of all walks of life, and, importantly, represents at least two, if not many more people through her children. No one in the world is more connected to life than mothers. Mothers teach right and wrong.............and it is through mothers that this planet will save itself or not.
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Almost anything.
People don't know that I'm good at
Staying up too late at night
My TED Story
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A comment on Conversation: Let's Create a Global Declaration of Loving Intention
I think that the traditional role of a mom is simply the greatest ever force there is against capitalism and exploitation-rot, etc., and to undervalue this job is a grave mistake. It kills me that Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan once called housewives "parasites" and "children." Moms are not housewives, but they do take care of the house. I also don't think anyone should think lowly of housework............if we do that then the next thing you know, we are hiring poor immigrant women to do our housework in the name of women's liberation, and that's just wrong. We all need to rely on ourselves as the smallest unit of society, the family unit.
Also, it's a fact that the women's movement of the 60's was significantly funded by the CIA, so much so that Ms. magazine didn't even need advertisers. Why? Because women getting paid for working means doubling the tax base. Also, it supplanted women's influence, compelling us to eat fast food and use schools for childcare, breakfast, lunch, snacks, eye and hearing tests, clothing, fluoride supplements, etc This created broad government dependency where there once was none at all....
At least one sociology department is trying to quantify the economic benefit of mothers. I believe the M.O.T.H.E.R website puts the average mothers salary at $110K/year---which is computed using the very low wages of domestic work. I have no idea what the real economic value of a mother actually is though.
The world has yet to see a good documentary on mothers, and the relationship between moms and our mother the planet. I am chewing away at this as an idea, but so slowly that I think someone could steal my idea at any time! I think a documentary is the way to go, one picture tells 1000 words.
The greatest predictor of human behavior is values, which are learned in the home.
Out of space to write!
A reply on Conversation: Let's Create a Global Declaration of Loving Intention
In the meantime, "clarity" is on my mind, being that there are so many diverse types of constitutions which can be written. Definitely rich material to draw from...
We are all only on average six degrees away from whoever we need to connect with, and the internet is only bringing us all closer.
I am just giving my thoughts and I hope they're useful.
A comment on Conversation: Let's Create a Global Declaration of Loving Intention
A good place to start would be in studying existing constitutions.
I believe that an ultimate constitution should be a composite of the many, but also a revision, which emphasizes parts that need more emphasis-development than they did when the original constitutions were written.
It seems like the internet could help, using the concept of tag clouds or something like that. It would help decipher the common themes of constitutions around the world.
A good constitution will model human thought-logic in some way, and so people in that field (what would one call the field of human thought?) could help.
I think a handful of determined people should get this started, and I think that philosophers and writers, and the survivors of atrocities should chime in heavily.
The creative process requires four steps, 1) gathering all info-material on the table; 2) analyzing the inter-relationships between the different things; 3) cutting and pasting, deciding what to keep and throw out; 4) honing.
Right now we're at the first step. I think that info, along with bodies-people need to be gathered together now...........