Editor:
As a concerned senior, I am tired of being told I have nothing but time to fight for old ways to continue (Brittney Redman, Coast Reporter, letters, April 26) and many others.
First, my time -both my lifetime and my days are short. I'm much slower and tire out far more quickly than I used to. After a lifetime of hard work and struggle, I would prefer to putter at hobbies I never had time for during my working life.
Second, you are wrong. Senior activists are not against change. Change cannot come soon enough for me. I work for change. I want to see GMO labelling, safe technology, subsidies for alternative energies including cold fusion, free release of the findings of independent scientists, a more equitable electoral system, a more truly participatory democracy, a fairer distribution of wealth, more cooperation, less greed and control, world peace, life in harmony with nature, to name a few.
Maya Treuheit's poignant review of the movie Revolution (Coast Reporter, May 17), gave me hope that young people will act against the error of past ways.
Coral Robinson and Reanna Popp also deserve credit for breaking the deadly fad of tanning (Coast Reporter, letters, May 10).
Most often though, when I tell a young person,"It's your world," I'm laughed at. I don't care. I cannot go to my grave without even trying to change the world as it is now, before leaving it to you, the next generation.
Change I most urgently want. It is you Ms Redman, and others like you who let our democracy slip away and accept what governments and corporations dictate.
Nancy Leathley, Sechelt
