LEARNING ABOUT THE FAMILY:
Geaney, Dennis J.
else to go. And finally, the poor always have to spend a a co-conspirator in the cover-up, the string pretty much proportionately larger share of their income on food than ran out for this...
...The Ujamaa village if not resolutions...
...He is a visionary who believes that illiterate and gifts, loans and private investment, that is, Greeks short-lived villagers can, through pooling their labor bearing gifts...
...of a country is brought about by people, not by The World Assembly of the Family chose Tanzania money...
...I took the dirt out about the family as it is challenged by the population of the hole for the upright with my hand...
...with its rough desks facing into the open court Paulo The final and least productive phase was trying to Freire became eloquent: "The whole village is the edupull the experiences together in the form of conclusions, cator, not this school building...
...delegates as well as for Africans relating to affluent He will be back in 1975 to teach at the University...
...After we met United Nations...
...On the other hand, to pull up short But in the long run the problem of hunger in the richest now will only be to dose the country with more of the nation in the world should be seen for what it is: a cynicism that made Watergate possible in the first place...
...DENNIS J. GEANEY TANU is to build a socialist state...
...to spend two days with villagers...
...The second phase was I presume I was in a more advanced Ujamaa vilthe marketplace back at the University where delegates lage...
...that we have the answers...
...I would recommend to the bar, medical and of 1967, subtitled TANU's policy on socialism and self- dental associations to have their annual conventions reliance...
...Yet as I stood outside the school UN population expert, Arthur McCormack...
...It was my first experience of seeing how Amer- He told the villagers that this is where he would like icans can be offensive without trying...
...points administration of the plan should be improved...
...It is part of our psyche...
...The Declaration is very clear about ated...
...The the Watergate grand jury's naming of Richard Nixon as fact that the University of Dar was hosting Familia '74 9 August 1974: 420 and the Sixth Pan African Congress simultaneously says very clear how Tanzania or TANU sees these rights something about the excitement which Nyerere has cre- being achieved...
...Many who are eligible of Massachusetts...
...Impeachment's last act is not going to be painless Anything, in short, that could help America's poor for anyone, and indeed the easy course, as Nixon used on an immediate basis should be done...
...on an increasingly anti-climactic quality...
...The assembly had three phases...
...far from being an unqualified success, it is better than "Only a miracle is going to save the President...
...Although the food stamp program is and fatal, politically, for Richard Milhous Nixon...
...Through might glean insight into the extended family concept the savings of the village which are administered by from visiting the Ujamaa villages...
...others find the pro- given the upcoming proceedings in the House and gram too expensive...
...It is equally stupid, the patronizing arms of Big Brother or Dutch uncles...
...In no way could this family as- teaches people to share, to hope, to create a future...
...The basic document, forces all to look at their family values with new the magna carta of Tanzania, is the Arusha Declaration lenses...
...For a family movement to immerse itself in another The family themes as such were eclipsed by TANU, culture and another political system makes sense...
...the poor are very, very poor...
...Only the bloodthirsty would working papers submitted to the Senate Select Commit- begrudge him that out...
...This was his second trip to Tanzania...
...As Senator McGovern's could pronounce in a Swahili song that spontaneously Committee strives to create a comprehensive National became the theme song of Familia '74, a two-week Nutrition Policy, the first plank in our national platform World Assembly of the Family at the University of Darshould clearly be this: dog food is for dogs...
...Further, getting the stamps is a time-con- easier for nation and people than to endure the correcsuming and sometimes a humiliating process...
...His defenses stripped, poses great difficulties for many poor people who out of about all that could rescue Richard Nixon now may necessity live very much on a day-to-day basis...
...My only limitainterpreter the delegates fanned out to 30 villages as tion was an inability to sing the Swahili chants as we far as three or four hundred miles from the capital worked together...
...There was a well, a milling machine, a dispensary could shop around among the delegates who would which does not eliminate disease and a high infant cluster around issues or simply pick the brains of ex- mortality rate and a school that can take only 25 perperts like the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, or the cent of the children...
...The rich in this country are very, the travail that is allegedly worrying his surrogates so very rich...
...sembly draw conclusions...
...The full House and the Senate the upper and middle classes...
...Events are Some short-term measures to aid the hungry in Amer- sweeping towards a conclusion fateful for the nation ica are possible...
...The nation could pick up the tee put it this way: "In a nation in which the wealthiest pieces, and he could hie to his coastal estates...
...And finally, the poor always have to spend a a co-conspirator in the cover-up, the string pretty much proportionately larger share of their income on food than ran out for this President...
...The boards were theologies of marriage, education and the changing not cut but hacked...
...Movements and the Family Education Office of the For North American delegates like myself the visit World Council of Churches with financial help from the to the Ujamaa village was traumatic...
...and fixed for history...
...the family but rather to create a people-to-people at- We used the primitive tools that could be no different mosphere in which people could share their concerns from those of Joseph and Jesus...
...These three factors leave have yet to play their roles with respect to the bill of the poor little flexibility, and for them survival often in- particulars drawn up by the House Judiciary Committee...
...The comment may be infelicitous are unaware of the help available...
...million people remain poor or near-poor, more than a food stamp or child-feeding program is at issue...
...Of the 37 million people eligible, however, only had it," says House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill 35.7 percent now receive stamps...
...Few 1 percent possess more than eight times the wealth of would bother him there, much less bug him that San the bottom 50 percent, in which the percentage of na- Clemente is promised to the United States...
...The peasant must learn to work hard and for its meeting because the leaders believed that they work together with the primitive tools he has...
...What could it ever serve other than as a reminder has remained the same for 45 years, and in which 40 of a perfidious President...
...indeed it is even more stupid, for us to imagine that we No one is saying that it can be done...
...But it appears accurate enough...
...People like my- shall rid ourselves of our poverty through foreign self who traveled to Dar stood in wonderment of a financial assistance rather than our own financial redreamer who thinks a nation can be built on the gospel sources...
...He's nothing...
...This is particu- to say about Vietnam, might be to chuck it all...
...gross maldistribution of national income that will require Of course, Richard Nixon could spare the country a political solution...
...The requirement that families pay O'Neill's theoretically non-partisan responsibilities theresizable sums in cash each month in order to participate in...
...Somehow we feel to die...
...One of the much...
...image of man in the context of a Tanzanian version of Nyerere passionately believes that "the development a socialist state...
...were tied with green strings, possibly from maize First in groups of eight with a university student as an plants...
...With the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on execu- TANU, Tanzania, and Ujamaa are all put together tive privilege, and the concomitant decision to let stand by its charismatic President, Julius K. Nyerere...
...He sees capitalism and Christianity as irtinents as well as the cultural shock for the non-African reconcilable...
...The song was taught by villagers to one of the thirty Assembly groups which visited Ujamaa vilTHE LAST ACT lages which are the cornerstone of one of the most exciting political experiments in the Third World...
...people...
...Tanu is the political party of Tanzania...
...The sisson strips used for lattice statuses of the sexes...
...The Assembly itself the village TANU committee and the help of the govwas a two-week version of an extended family...
...There ernment a well can be dug, a dispensary can be opened, were 250 delegates from 54 nations brought together and more children can be given a primary school eduby the International Confederation of Christian Family cation...
...Short- Learning About the term help is essential, but beyond that we need a muchdiscussed but never-achieved goal: what the Select Committee report calls a just, dignified income-maintenance Family in Tanzania program--one ensuring that no person in this country "0 TANU, 0 Tanzania" were the only two words I lives without adequate income...
...It Tanzania, Ujamaa and Nyerere...
...The opening sentence reads: "The policy of close to the Ujamaa villages...
...Commonweal: 421...
...He could still resign...
...Who wants tional income going to the lowest fifth of the population it...
...The depth explosion, the uneven development of economies, the of the hole was to be arm length...
...es-salaam, June 19-27...
...on both tive...
...The be a fortuitous response to appeals based on the lesser cost of participating in the program should •therefore of evils-that to suffer two last years of Nixon may be be reduced...
...It is stupid to rely on money as the in these Ujamaa (familyhood) enclaves, achieve self- major instrument of development when we know only respect and dignity as they lift themselves up without too well that our country is poor...
...with the local TANU committee we joined in the comThe Assembly did not aim to make resolutions about munal work of the day, which was building a house...
...But unlike Pacem in Terris it is Chicago...
...The larly important because, the Committee notes, the infla- thought is the more tempting since for all practical purtionary price spiral that has already drastically affected poses Nixon is neutralized for the duration of his term the poor is likely to continue for the foreseeable future...
...They were overwhelmed from This is what Christianity is about and why I am a their interaction with the delegates from the five con- Christian...
...volves a hard choice between using money for rent or Nevertheless, the impeachment proceedings are taking medical care or food...
...Then it proceeds (Father Dennis 1. Geaney, O.S.A., is Director of to outline the rights of every individual like Pope John Field Education at Catholic Theological Union in in Pacem in Terris...
...I instantly qualified as a builder...
...The food program cannot end their poverty, and fundamentally people are hungry because they are poor...
Vol. 100 • August 1974 • No. 18
