David Arthur Smithers Box 357 Wellman, Iowa. A founding member of IOWANS FOR ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS
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When I grow up I want to be an astronaut and President of the United States. If it turns out that I work as a nursing assistant, a custodian, a bus driver, or an parking attendant, I want to grow up to be an educated working person, and a member of a labor union, and I want to look at photos of Mars, Titan, Saturn, and Jupiter made by robots sent into space, and I want to run for local office even to lose, just to make a point.If it turns out that I am married for over thirty five years and have three sons, I want to be part of their childhood and their education from diapers to drivers education.If it turns out that I have interests in humanity and science and literature and people, let me remember my bricklayer father and hard working mother and my youth in the railroad town of Perry, Iowa.If it turns out that I go to college, let it to be as a lifetime of learning. It might be that I mix college and work and family and politics and labor activism over a period of over twenty years. I might not get degrees in astronomy and particle physics, but let me have them as interests while I learn about elementary education, anthropology, and political science. Let the most valuable card I have from the University of Iowa be the one to the library.When I grow up, let there be diversity of people who can communicate with each other about freedom, justice and peace. If I'm to be monogamous let me still admire the ladies, especially the many beautiful hues of skin color and ethnic and racial features that let my eyes taste the many flavors of humanity.Moreover, let me remember that my mother and my sister were women, and that the advance of humanity depends upon the unshackling of the female through political and economic rights, and through education.Let me remember that politics includes economics and that rights include not only the right to vote, but the right to eat, to be housed, to have leisure. Let me know that poverty is not to be hidden in shame, but to be exposed as the failure of political economy to serve human needs for freedom, justice and peace.Finally, when I grow up, I will want to have been your friend and get to know you. Knowing you will be my wealth.My poetry and some other nonpolitical writings are at myspace.com..athenachronicles. Under "David Arthur Smithers" I have page on Facebook;MyObama."Human rights are the foundation for freedom, justice and peace in the world..." (Universal Declaration on Human Rights, 1948). Recognition and legal protection of human rights would unleash unparalleled progress within our lifetimes.Plain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
