Hi Schiller,
The point is well made. To me our essential difficulty is getting our
respective governments to :
     * See the light; and
     * Support our initiatives by being apt representatives at the tables
where they sit
Our continuing weakness is a lack of cohesive [not lip service-- we have
got & will continue to get alot of that]government support nationally &
regionally. Granted that we do need to step up to our plate and fashion
something the politicians ought to support-- a point Gillian made so well
at our recent meeting & we should get busy at this. But it has been done in
the past and fell flat because at the nth hour the politician did not
support either, I suspect, because of ignorance or lack of commitment
(guts) or both.
In the end we have to solve that problem & the way to do it is [as you
suggest] from our unified position and with one & the same "Hymn Sheet" in
our hands (at last) to frontally address them all together. Others have
been able to address the leadership, we have to find a way to do the same &
persuade.
Errol
Nearby jue 23 sep 2004 09:11:53 AST