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Keeping the flame alive
Reflections on our history, our present and our future
Dr Simon Duffy ■ The Centre for Welfare Reform ■ 14th-15th August 2013 ■
Wellington ■ New Zealand Disability Support Network
Citizenship: right here,
right now
Citizenship is the right goal
Being a citizen is better than being
‘normal’
it brings us together as equals
but also as unique free individuals
Equal and different
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
What is wrong with institutions?
1.Devalued lives - the institution defines your place, your role,
your purpose.
2.No freedom or control - the institution strips you of freedom
and personal authority
3.Impoverishment - economic power is nullified
4.Sheltered, but homeless - a home is more than a roof - it’s vital
to control privacy and security
5.‘Care’ not help - ‘care’ already assumes the passivity and lower
value of the person ‘in care’.
6.Disconnected - the institution cuts you off and leaves you
within a hierarchical system where abuse can become natural
7.Loveless - relationships have no place in the institution
1. Direction - It’s risky if my life lacks meaning and value
2. Freedom - It’s risky if I cannot direct my life, communicate or
be listened to.
3. Money - It’s risky if I lack money or if I cannot control my own
money.
4. Home - It’s risky if I cannot control who I live with, my home
and my privacy.
5. Help - It’s risky if I’ve no one to help me and if I cannot control
who helps me.
6. Life - It’s risky if I am not a valued member of my community.
7. Love - It’s risky to have no friends or family.
Why citizenship is safer
Citizenship is
also very
practical. We
can use the idea
of citizenship to
think about how
to help
someone.
Citizenship is
possible for
everyone
it just might
take some
extra thought
1. Purpose
Demanding of man that he assumes his condition and
not till his neighbour's field, he [Rebbe Yaakov-Yitzhak,
The Seer of Lublin] said: "There are many paths leading
to perfection; it is given to each of us to choose our own,
and by following it with great dedication, we can make it
become our truth, our only truth."
Elie Wiesel
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
2. Freedom
I used to think that freedom was freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But
freedom needs to include all of the lives of all of the
people. Freedom is the right to sow what you want. It's
the right to make boots of shoes, it's the right to bake
bread from the grain you've sown and to sell it or not to
sell it as you choose. The same goes for a locksmith or
steelworker or an artist - freedom is the right to live and
work as you wish and not as you're ordered to. But these
days there's no freedom for anyone - whether you write
books, whether you sow grain or whether you make
boots.
Vassily Grossman
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
3. Money
You could no more make a city out of paupers than out
of slaves.
Aristotle
Self-interest is the most powerful engine for individual
and social development, in other words, social progress,
in other words social justice. It is when the most
disadvantaged in society have the opportunity to
improve their lives in their own self-interest that change
will take place.
Noel Pearson
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
4. Home
Then the old Vainamoinen put this into words:'Strange
food goes down the wrong wayeven in good lodging;in
his land a man's better at home loftier.If only sweet God
would grantthe kind creator allowme to come to my
own landsthe lands where I used to live!Better in your
own countryeven water off your solethan in a foreign
countryhoney from a golden bowl.'
The Kalevala
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
5. Help
There are eight degrees of charity, one higher than the
other. The highest degree, exceeded by none, is that of
the person who assists a poor Jew by providing him with
a gift or loan or by accepting him into a business
partnership or by helping him find employment - in a
word, by putting him where he can dispense with other
people's aid. With reference to such aid, it is said, “You
shall strengthen him, be he a stranger or a settler, he
shall live with you” (Lev. 25:35), which means strengthen
him in such manner that his falling into want is
prevented.
Maimonides
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
6. Life
True love leads a man to fulfilment, not by drawing
things to himself but by forcing him to transcend himself
and to be something greater than himself. True spiritual
love takes the isolated individual, exacts from him
labour, sacrifice, and the gift of himself.
Thomas Merton
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
7. Love
Resources multiply in networks created by intentionally
building relationships that cross boundaries & serve
people's deepest purposes.
Seymour Sarason
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship Right Here, Right Now
Citizenship is the full realisation of our interdependence
- the value we bring to each other in all our differences.
The lame rides a horsethe maimed drives the herdthe
deaf is brave in battle.A man is betterblind than
buried.A dead man is deft at nothing.
From Viking - Havamal
If you found these slides interesting you might like to read...
Lots of free resources on all these topics and more:
@simonjduffy and @cforwr - follow
www.centreforwelfarereform.org.uk - subscribe
like The Centre for Welfare Reform on Facebook

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Citizenship Right Here, Right Now

  • 1. Keeping the flame alive Reflections on our history, our present and our future Dr Simon Duffy ■ The Centre for Welfare Reform ■ 14th-15th August 2013 ■ Wellington ■ New Zealand Disability Support Network
  • 3. Citizenship is the right goal
  • 4. Being a citizen is better than being ‘normal’ it brings us together as equals but also as unique free individuals Equal and different
  • 6. What is wrong with institutions? 1.Devalued lives - the institution defines your place, your role, your purpose. 2.No freedom or control - the institution strips you of freedom and personal authority 3.Impoverishment - economic power is nullified 4.Sheltered, but homeless - a home is more than a roof - it’s vital to control privacy and security 5.‘Care’ not help - ‘care’ already assumes the passivity and lower value of the person ‘in care’. 6.Disconnected - the institution cuts you off and leaves you within a hierarchical system where abuse can become natural 7.Loveless - relationships have no place in the institution
  • 7. 1. Direction - It’s risky if my life lacks meaning and value 2. Freedom - It’s risky if I cannot direct my life, communicate or be listened to. 3. Money - It’s risky if I lack money or if I cannot control my own money. 4. Home - It’s risky if I cannot control who I live with, my home and my privacy. 5. Help - It’s risky if I’ve no one to help me and if I cannot control who helps me. 6. Life - It’s risky if I am not a valued member of my community. 7. Love - It’s risky to have no friends or family. Why citizenship is safer
  • 8. Citizenship is also very practical. We can use the idea of citizenship to think about how to help someone.
  • 9. Citizenship is possible for everyone it just might take some extra thought
  • 11. Demanding of man that he assumes his condition and not till his neighbour's field, he [Rebbe Yaakov-Yitzhak, The Seer of Lublin] said: "There are many paths leading to perfection; it is given to each of us to choose our own, and by following it with great dedication, we can make it become our truth, our only truth." Elie Wiesel
  • 16. I used to think that freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But freedom needs to include all of the lives of all of the people. Freedom is the right to sow what you want. It's the right to make boots of shoes, it's the right to bake bread from the grain you've sown and to sell it or not to sell it as you choose. The same goes for a locksmith or steelworker or an artist - freedom is the right to live and work as you wish and not as you're ordered to. But these days there's no freedom for anyone - whether you write books, whether you sow grain or whether you make boots. Vassily Grossman
  • 21. You could no more make a city out of paupers than out of slaves. Aristotle Self-interest is the most powerful engine for individual and social development, in other words, social progress, in other words social justice. It is when the most disadvantaged in society have the opportunity to improve their lives in their own self-interest that change will take place. Noel Pearson
  • 26. Then the old Vainamoinen put this into words:'Strange food goes down the wrong wayeven in good lodging;in his land a man's better at home loftier.If only sweet God would grantthe kind creator allowme to come to my own landsthe lands where I used to live!Better in your own countryeven water off your solethan in a foreign countryhoney from a golden bowl.' The Kalevala
  • 31. There are eight degrees of charity, one higher than the other. The highest degree, exceeded by none, is that of the person who assists a poor Jew by providing him with a gift or loan or by accepting him into a business partnership or by helping him find employment - in a word, by putting him where he can dispense with other people's aid. With reference to such aid, it is said, “You shall strengthen him, be he a stranger or a settler, he shall live with you” (Lev. 25:35), which means strengthen him in such manner that his falling into want is prevented. Maimonides
  • 36. True love leads a man to fulfilment, not by drawing things to himself but by forcing him to transcend himself and to be something greater than himself. True spiritual love takes the isolated individual, exacts from him labour, sacrifice, and the gift of himself. Thomas Merton
  • 42. Resources multiply in networks created by intentionally building relationships that cross boundaries & serve people's deepest purposes. Seymour Sarason
  • 46. Citizenship is the full realisation of our interdependence - the value we bring to each other in all our differences. The lame rides a horsethe maimed drives the herdthe deaf is brave in battle.A man is betterblind than buried.A dead man is deft at nothing. From Viking - Havamal
  • 47. If you found these slides interesting you might like to read...
  • 48. Lots of free resources on all these topics and more: @simonjduffy and @cforwr - follow www.centreforwelfarereform.org.uk - subscribe like The Centre for Welfare Reform on Facebook