Joe's Black Dog

Joe's Black Dog
Joe's Black Dog by Marjorie Weiss

14 October 2015

'Because our solidarity is stronger than our sadness.'

Photo, David Shankbone, Flickr creative commons

 

 We have only one enemy: inequality.


  Dr John Falzon
  Chief Executive Officer
  St Vincent de Paul Society National Council 
 
Rather than making us feel demoralised, this report should make us feel determined. 
Our task is to transform these personal stories of injustice into a powerful, collective struggle for a new society; a society in which people are not blamed because economic structures lock them out or in some case lock them up; one in which people are not told that they would not be poor if only they chose to be a little more productive.

This is our beautiful struggle, we who are many; we who make up the massive movement for progressive social change. We have only one enemy. It is called inequality. And no matter how long it takes, we will win against this enemy. Humanity will win against humiliation. 

Because our solidarity is stronger than our sadness. And even though our struggle is enormous, so too is our hope.

Foreword from
'Sick with worry ...'
Stories from the front-line of inequality, 2015
St Vincent de Paul Society
National Council of Australia

05 June 2015

depression lies


Photo by Dawn, Flickr creative commons, https://flic.kr/p/5Xp3jH

 Matt Haig: Yes, depression lies. And it's very hard to not believe it when it's there, because it's very much in the foreground and it totally convinces you. And it's not always that it necessarily lies, but it gives you the very, very worst interpretation of your reality. Yes, so I think time proves that life doesn't always get worse.

from "Depression and #ReasonsToStayAlive",  Lynne Malcolm and Matt Haig, All In The Mind, ABC Radio National, 31 May 2015
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/depression-and-reasons-to-stay-alive/6494972

Matt Haig, 2015, Reasons to Stay Alive
http://www.matthaig.com/reasons-to-stay-alive/