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Government Crime Watch, Mediation, & End Compulsory SchoolingIn the Opening Post, I added 3c, 3d and 7 to the list of ways to improve the system.
3c is Government Crime Watch, putting security cameras on all public officials, including judges, cops, prison guards, inmates etc. I heard Mike Gill's video yesterday in which he described some terrible abuses in the Rockingham County jail late last month of himself and several young inmates. The abuse included poisoning of himself and beating or raping of one or more teenage boys and abuse to some teenage girls as well and the guards just laughed about it all. They intentionally put teens in cells with brutal criminal prisoners. All that kind of crap needs to be videoed so it will end.
3d is Mediation. The courts need to be cleaned up and mediation should be used instead of court in most cases. I heard that Mike Gill uses the courts to sue his former employees, but he should use mediation instead of courts, especially when the courts are so corrupt, which he admits himself.
I'll post a directory of NH Mediators below, along with info on when and when not to use mediation.
7 is End Compulsory Schooling. I talked about that in my previous post above. Students need to be encouraged and assisted to resist coercion in school. They need the freedom to decide for themselves what they want to learn. Much of what is taught in school is false propaganda. See for example the book, written by a teacher, called Lies My Teacher Told Me. Compulsory schooling allows authoritarians to brainwash students to become part of the authoritarian system. We need to join and support the Unschooling Movement, which Dr. Peter Gray and many others are getting organized.
MEDIATION SERVICES See
http://www.mediate.com and for Communities
http://www.mediate.com/communityU.S. Mediators Directory:
http://www.mediate.com/mediator/search.cfmNH Area Mediators
DEBORAH KANE REIN
Concord, NH 03301
603-724-5081
Lauren Adams, Melinda Gehris or Carol Hess, Esq.
Concord, NH 03301
603 225-0477
Anthony F Matrumalo, C.F.M.
Derry, NH 03038
603-315-0844
Lisa McNally (Corbin-Walker)
Dover, NH 03820
603-617-0806
Roger Beaudoin
Goffstown, NH 03045
(603)497-2832
Tamblyn Fuller Gosling
Goffstown, NH 03045
603-497-2729
Susan Schweizer
Grantham, NH 03753
617-799-8706
CHERYL A ROCHA
KENSINGTON, NH 03833
(603) 772-4711
Xiorli Bernazzani
Nashua, NH 03060
603-595-0600
Joseph M Annutto
Nashua, NH 03060
603-881-9161
Robin K Dite
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-502-3560
Harriet Fishman
Portsmouth, NH 03824
603-608-8306
Honey Hastings
Temple, NH 03084
603.654.5000
Frank Fallon
local state-wide locations
800.529.1516
Meredith Richardson, Esq.
Kittery, ME 03904
207-439-4267
Laurie Levin
Norwich, VT 05055
802-989-9482
American College of Civil Trial Mediators
Orlando, FL 32801
407-843-8878
National Association for Community Mediation
Mesa, AZ 85206
(602) 633-4213
CADRE: National Ctr on Dispute Res. in Special Education
Eugene, OR 97405-0906
541 686 5060
MERVYN MALAMED
Los Angeles, CA 90403
An article on Mediation says these are
cases where Mediation works best.
- Parties have conflicting views of the facts or law;
- A party needs to express strong emotions;
- A party craves the opportunity to be heard directly by the opposing party;
- Parties are not skillful negotiators and need the process structure and negotiation expertise provided by a mediator;
- A conflict exists between a party and his or her attorney.
- The emotions of the parties are intense and are preventing a settlement;
- Communication between the parties is poor in either quantity or quality and they cannot change the situation on their own;
- Misperceptions or stereotypes are hindering productive exchanges;
- Repetitive negative behaviors are creating barriers to settlement;
- Disagreements over data hinder its collection and evaluation;
- Multiple issues in the dispute keep the parties from agreeing about the order and combination in which the issues should be resolved;
- The parties perceive their interests as incompatible;
- The parties have no negotiating procedure, they are using the wrong procedure, or they are not using a procedure skillfully;
- The parties have no acceptable forum for the negotiation;
- The parties are having difficulty starting the negotiations; or
- The parties have reached impasse in the unfacilitated negotiation process.
- There's need to protect in a confidential process reputations, good will, trade secrets, or a good name;
- Parties seek to avoid the emotionally and psychologically exhausting process of litigation;
- They seek to avoid the distraction – especially in a business setting – of ongoing litigation;
- They seek to avoid the expense of litigation;
- They need a much quicker resolution of the dispute;
- They cannot accurately predict the outcome at trial;
- They desire to maintain control over the dispute resolution process design or the outcome;
- They need more than an award of damages or an injunction;
- They seek some sort of compromise solution rather than a win-lose outcome;
- They desire to maintain control over the outcome;
- They seek to avoid the decisions of a biased adjudicative neutral [judge];
- They cannot afford the expense of skillful and higher-paid lawyers, expert witnesses, or other representatives in litigation.
For further info, such as when to use the courts instead, see
http://www.mediate.com/articles/young18.cfm