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Los Gobiernos deben asegurar libertad, hermandad, igualdad y justicia social.

[...] Cuando la dignidad se pone en cuestión es necesario reaccionar. La indignación viene del pisoteo de la dignidad que cada ser humano lleva consigo. Por eso siempre me remito a la Declaración de Derechos Humanos. En su artículo primero ya dice: Todos los seres humanos somos iguales en dignidad y en derechos. [..]  


Enfadarse y ya, para mí no tiene sentido. La ira no conduce a ninguna parte, debe ir seguida de compromiso. No propongo a la gente que se enfade sin más, sino que se pregunte cuáles son las razones que ponen en peligro esos valores fundamentales que hemos heredado y que ahora tiemblan. No es fácil [..]


se ha ido imponiendo otra ideología perversa basada en el mercado y nada más que en el mercado. Hoy, usted y yo, sufrimos sus consecuencias, las de un grupo privilegiado que busca sus beneficios a nuestras expensas. ¿Qué proponer como alternativa? La democracia real.
Confiar en depositar cada vez más poder en la gente común para que sus necesidades sean la prioridad a resolver por los Gobiernos, el primer deber. Los Gobiernos deben asegurar libertad, hermandad, igualdad y justicia social. [..]  


Progreso no significa acelerarse, sino ser consciente de cuáles son los valores que ayudan a crear un mundo mejor y cuáles no. La democracia es exigente en sí. Demanda más a los políticos y logra tejer un sistema del que es difícil salir bien parado si actúas mal. [...]


Contra gobernantes de ignorancia supina, ¿qué se puede hacer?¡Indignarse! Necesitamos otros gobernantes, y también, compromiso de la sociedad para aupar a los más decentes. No podemos caer en esa desazón de la juventud, ni en pensar que todos los políticos son iguales, porque no es cierto. La rabia y la indiferencia no nos llevan a ninguna parte.
En su vida ha existido otra indignación persistente: Palestina. De nuevo, la ruptura de las reglas internacionales, la brutalidad impuesta, la situación en Gaza y Cisjordania aúnan todo lo que más he detestado en mi vida. Parecida a la que sentí en los campos de concentración. Siento un gran aprecio por el Estado de Israel, pero cuando su Gobierno se comporta de una manera similar a los peores Gobiernos que yo he tenido que soportar en mi vida, no puedo admitirlo y me rebelo y denuncio esos abusos cometidos por ellos con el permiso de Estados Unidos, la Unión Europea y algunas empresas involucradas en la situación. Es lo mismo que siento respecto a la incapacidad para ponerse de acuerdo sobre el cambio climático. [..]

AUTORIDAD MORAL

Toda una vida de lucha por el progreso, de resistencia frente a los totalitarismos, de autoridad moral, y este francés nacido en Alemania en 1917 se ha ganado el éxito y el aplauso mundial con un pequeño libro panfleto, '¡Indignaos!' (Editorial Destino, con prólogo en español de José Luis Sampedro), que ha sacudido el descontento en los países desarrollados frente a un sistema económico-político lleno de goteras.

Este judío, muy crítico con la política de Israel hacia Palestina, participó en la resistencia francesa contra los nazis, estuvo preso en varios campos de concentración y participó en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos.

La entrevista al completo: "La indignación debe ir seguida de compromiso

STÉPHANE HESSEL

los resultados electorales recientes, vistos de otro modo

de democracia real Ya
tambien se recomienda la lectura sobre el sistema electoral español, que "es desproporcional, impone el bipartidismo, fomenta la polarización y hace casi imposible que surja un tercer partido moderador. Los nacionalistas quedan como única alternativa para pactar"

The road to truth involves a certain amount of diarrhoea.

Referred to the Middle East, although applicable throughout the world:

Too many journalists report official narratives of the powerful, missing the stories of working class people.


Too often, you consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You think you can trust the articles you read - why wouldn't you? You think you can sift through the ideological bias and just get the facts. But you don't know the ingredients that go into the product you buy. It is important to understand how knowledge about current events in the Middle East is produced before relying on it. Even when there are no apparent ideological biases, such as those one often sees when it comes to reporting about Israel, there are fundamental problems at the epistemological and methodological level. These create distortions, falsehoods and justify the narrative of those with power.[...]


the road to truth involves a certain amount of diarrhoea. [...]


There are many brave and dedicated journalists working in the Middle East whose work deserves attention and praise. Some even work for the mainstream media. Too often their independent voices are drowned out by the mass of writers who justify power instead of opposing it. Our job should not be about speaking truth to power. Those in power know the truth, they just don't care. It's about speaking truth to the people, to those not in power, in order to empower them.


full article in AlJazeera, by Nir Rosen is a journalist from the US

Manifestación 15M Democracia Real Ya

El manifiesto y las palabras de la gente Indignada

El corruptodromo, o mapa de politicos corruptos, sea imputados, o sentenciados

Fotos de testig@s y presentes

Dado el sistema electoral 'maquiavelico', en palabras de uno de sus principales 'padres', un articulo para explicar que significan realmente los votos nulos, en blanco y las abstenciones....la mejor solucion??

Spain Taken the street for a TRUE DEMOCRACY - May 15th 2011

Porque mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo

y que razon tiene ademas...!

Informative opinion piece

by Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University in New York.

The rights of Israel

Israel's "lawfare" against the Palestinian people is rooted in a ficticious narrative of having a "right" to exist. The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, now entering their twentieth year had been hailed from the start as historic, having inaugurated a "peace process" that would resolve what is commonly referred to as the "Palestinian-Israeli conflict". For the Palestinians and the international community, represented by the United Nations and the myriad resolutions its Security Council and General Assembly issued since 1948, what was to be negotiated were the colonisation of land, the occupation of territory and population, and the laws that stipulate ethnic and religious discrimination in Israel, which, among other things, bar Palestinian refugees from returning to their land and confiscate their property. In their struggle against these Israeli practises, Palestinian leaders, whether in Israel, the Occupied Territories, or the diaspora, have always invoked these rights based on international law and UN resolutions, which Israel has consistently refused to implement or abide by since 1948. Thus for the Palestinians, armed by the UN and international law, the negotiations were precisely aimed to end colonisation, occupation, and discrimination. On the other hand, one of the strongest and persistent arguments that the Zionist movement and Israel have deployed since 1948 in defence of the establishment of Israel and its subsequent policies is the invocation of the rights of Israel, which are not based on international law or UN resolutions. This is a crucial distinction to be made between the Palestinian and Israeli claims to possession of "rights." While the Palestinians invoke rights that are internationally recognised, Israel invokes rights that are solely recognised at the national level by the Israeli state itself. For Zionism, this was a novel mode of argumentation as, in deploying it, Israel invokes not only juridical principles but also moral ones. In this realm, Israel has argued over the years that Jews have a right to establish a state in Palestine, that they have a right to establish a "Jewish" state in Palestine, that this state has a "right to exist," and that it has a "right to defend itself", which includes its subsidiary right to be the only country in the region to possess nuclear weapons, that it has the "right" to inherit all the biblical land that the Jewish God promised it, and a "right" to enact laws that are racially and religiously discriminatory in order to preserve the Jewish character of the state, otherwise articulated in the more recent formula of "a Jewish and democratic state". Israel has also insisted that its enemies, including the Palestinian people, whom it dispossesses, colonises, occupies, and discriminates against, must recognise all these rights, foremost among them its "right to exist as a Jewish state", as a condition for and a precursor to peace. continue reading

a ver quien la tiene mas grande....

muy divertido!

even if there are always two sides to a story

even if language and terminology are far from neutral by either side
this, is still a reality, for so many people

asi es como pasa

Brontosaurus

by xkcd

un poquito de alegria pal cuerpo

Pondering about Happiness

"People prior to the late 17th century thought happiness was a matter of luck or virtue or divine favor. Today we think of happiness as a right and a skill that can be developed. This has been liberating, in some respects, because it asks us to strive to improve our lots in life, individually and collectively. But there have been downsides as well. It seems that when we want to be happy all of the time, we can forget that the pursuit of happiness can entail struggle, sacrifice, even pain." A History of Happiness


"Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on The Destruction of the World and a large crowd gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him. The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was:
"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.""


Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.


"What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."


Why is everyone here so happy except me?"
"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master.
"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?"
"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."


all of the above by Anthony de Mello, Redescovering Life,