Speakers' Corner: 6 December, 5-7 pm.
Social Justice and Fairness
First World Country in the 21st Century
How are our poor faring?
Speeches:
Tan Kin Lian
1. Our society should be more egalitarian
2, Elected leaders should represent the people
Leong Sze Hian:
1. HDB – how the poor are faring and affected by HDB policies
Ravi Philemon
1. Distributive justice; especially about how our education system does not equip people to be self-reliant, but to be workers.
Others:
1. Tan Kin Lian – Update on investors' situation (if any)
2. Andrew Loh – Update on town councils' replies to residents' query
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Washing dirty linen in public
"The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man": Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy (1922)
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
Why we need to educate the people
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
Contributed by Ho Cheow Seng
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