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Ronn Profile
Ronn (Bronx, NY)
Member since Sunday, June 17, 2007
Last login 9/7/2008 12:40:08 AM
What is your current occupation? Do you enjoy it?
Community Activist/Education Consultant~ I am the Vice President of a 33 year old community based organization that fights for justice. It has become my life and clearly what the Great Spirit intended for me.
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What is your educational background? Are you currently in school?
I was on the design team that created a small high school in the Bronx. It is the first high school that was created by youth for youth in the country.
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Do you have any "heroes" in your life or your work? Describe:
My children, my parents, Sitting Bull, Dr. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Saul Alinsky, Mickey Mantle, Michael Moore and all the people that work to make this world a better place.
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Do you have a favorite quotation? Enter it here:
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
~Barack Obama~
"True Leaders are not those who strive to be first, but those who are first to
strive and who give their all for the success of the team. True Leaders are the
first to see the need, envision the plan and empower the team for action. By the
strength of the Leaders commitment, the power of the team is unleashed."
~Unknown~
"I see 1/3 of a nation ill housed, ill clad, and ill nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much: it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
~FDR 1937~
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
~Martin Luther King 1963~
"Without organization or union, working people become the victims of each other; one will work for less than reasonable wages, for fear another may accept it and take it away.
We organize to assist each other to secure employment for mutual aid in case of sickness or disability, to protect each other's rights and redress our wrongs, to obtain adequate legislation that will secure our wages from the unscrupulous sharks that infest our trade..."
~PJ McGuire, Founding father of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1881~
"Another world is not only possible, She's on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
~Arundhati Roy~
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What makes you happy? Why?
Christopher, Samantha and Geralyn (my beautiful children). Knowing that George W. Bush will no longer be President. Winning for Social Justice and building Power.
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What makes you sad? Why?
Being away from my kids for any length of time. Apathy, greed, global warming, etc.
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Do you like to read? If so, what books have you enjoyed recently?
I love to read. Anything from Koontz, Harry Potter series, many more, I am currently reading "Moral Politics - How Liberals and Conservatives Think" by George Lakoff
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Do you follow sports? Which teams are you interested in?
NY Yankees and NY Giants, I am a die hard fan.
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