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ADEA comes of Age

Thursday Jul 03 2008

   The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which turns 41 this year, was recently evaluated by David Neumark of the University of CA at Irvine for AARP. The law, designed to eliminate employment-based age discrimination for those aged 40 to 70, now covers 81 million people in the US. Unfortunately, evidence seems to point to continued discrimination against older workers. 

Potential areas for improvement include:

  • protecting older workers from discrimination after they leave full-time careers when they are looking for 'bridge' jobs
  • increase the effectiveness of the law in dealing with discriminatory hiring practices
  • protecting older workers who experience work-limiting disabilities from employment discrimination
Read a synopsis or download the full report.[Read More]

Written by admin at News

Tagged with: adea age_discrimination employment

I am not a thing

Wednesday Jul 02 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio
I just saw the movie WALL-E about a lonely robot on planet earth 700 years after a Wal-Mart-like enterprise wins the game of mega mergers and is the only corporation left, effectively running the world. The people had to leave because they couldn’t keep up with the trash. WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class) spends its days (we soon begin to think of it as a ‘he’ thanks to some brilliant scripting and Pixar magic) creating skyscraper-scale mountains of trash. It is a great film and brilliantly delivers ‘social responsibility’ messages while telling a beautiful love story that meshes with some profoundly human moments when people wake up to the possibility of having a choice combined with responsibility for cleaning up the mess we made in the 20th and 21st centuries.[Read More]

Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging commitment possibility relationship unreasonable worldview

Lost Zip

Tuesday Jul 01 2008

   By Shae Hadden | Bio
There are times when losing one’s ‘zip’ could spell disaster—at the end of a race or the beginning of a romantic evening, for instance. And there are other times when losing it could be advantageous—as when one has pushed too far for too long and when a much-needed rest is in order. For me, the latter is the case.[Read More]

Written by admin at Health

Tagged with: health

Youth Solidarity

Monday Jun 30 2008

Technology is bringing the youth of Detroit and Palestine together in conversation. Young media makers in Palestine and youth from communities of color in Michigan engaged in parallel workshops that introduced digital stories, music videos and murals. A recent videoconferenceheld during the Allied Media Conference in Detroit linked the two groups of young people and allowed them to share stories about their lives, how they feel about how they as a group are perceived, and the daily struggles they face. This conversation is a beginning which may, one day, weave peace out of shared hopes and dreams.

See and hear their stories at the US-Palestinian Youth Solidarity Network.

[Read More]

Written by admin at News

Tagged with: conversation detroit palestine solidarity youth

Paradox and Confusion

Monday Jun 30 2008

  By Shae Hadden | Bio
Someone was telling me recently that some of Buddhist temples in Japan are guarded by two fierce-looking demon-like figures. These guardians of ‘Truth’ are known as ‘Paradox’ and ‘Confusion’. These days, paradox and confusion seem to be states I alternate between in my quest to discover who I am and what future I want to create. If I’m not confused, then I’m trying to embrace something that defies intuition. My ‘truth’ seems elusive.[Read More]

Written by admin at Learning

Tagged with: confusion eldering future paradox possibilities

Fighting for the Future

Friday Jun 27 2008

Worth watching is an 8-minute videotape of Severn Suzuki's speech at the 1992 World Summit in Rio. Daughter of renowned environmental scientist and author Dr. David Suzuki, a 13-year-old Severn spoke on behalf of the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO) and silenced the world's leaders with her message. What have we done and what will we do to respond to her call for responsible action?[Read More]

Written by admin at News

Tagged with: david_suzuki eco severn_suzuki

Learning from the Internet Generation

Thursday Jun 26 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio
My daughter wrote a blog yesterday (A World of Performance) about how technology can move us further and further away from human-to-human connections. I thought “Wow, I would never have thought about that at her age”.  Her reflections about what is happening to us as human beings were insightful, but also very useful to me. I have been promoting use of technology to connect people and never imagined that it could also divide us. Now I can be more rigorous and prudent in balancing the risks and rewards.[Read More]

Written by admin at Learning

Tagged with: connection generation listening talent technology

A World of Performance

Wednesday Jun 25 2008

  By Lauren Selman | Bio


This past weekend, I was hiking with a couple of co-workers of mine in the beautiful Grand Canyon National Park. As we were walking, one woman posed the question, "Is our society changing or is it our awareness making it look worse?" I didn't understand what she meant at first, but as we continued to talk, she was speaking to the concept of perception. For example, people have been making 'at home 'drugs for a quite a long time, but now that it is known that they are making them, does it make society worse or just seem worse because we can now see it?[Read More]

Written by admin at Learning

Tagged with: actions awareness communication connection responsibility

The World We Want: It Begins with a Conversation

Tuesday Jun 24 2008

By David Korten | Great Turning website

Read more posts in The World We Want series.

How does it happen? It starts with a conversation. A while back, Cecile Andrews, our local Seattle author of The Circle of Simplicity, explained to me how the women’s movement changed the story on gender and unleashed the long suppressed power of the feminine. It started with discussion circles in which women came together to share personal stories. As each woman spoke her truth, a larger truth was revealed for all to see. The prevailing story that the key to a woman’s happiness is to find the right man, marry him, and devote her life to his service was not true.[Read More]

Written by admin at The Great Turning

Tagged with: choice conversation responsibility voluntary_simplicity womens_movement

What Conversation Are You?

Monday Jun 23 2008

  By Jim Selman | Bio
As many of you know, I view aging, and the rest of life for that matter, as a series of conversations. In my work, I try to show people that if we can observe ourselves and our world through the lens of language, we can see that everything we think and experience occurs in the context of some interpretation or another. For most people most of the time, our interpretation is that there is a ‘real world’ out there, and if we could only understand it and control it (and ourselves), then we’d be okay and win whatever game we’re playing. Of course, in this interpretation (called the Cartesian paradigm), people (that means us) are objects and our conversation about aging is basically that we wear out like our cars and eventually aren’t useful any longer.[Read More]

Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging conversation empowerment possibility wisdom

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