613. HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE CROSSROAD: HISTORY IS THE POLITICS OF YESTERDAY AND POLITICS IS THE HISTORY OF TODAY. (Jose Steinsleger)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): If you are reading this, chances are you care about HR. This Reader is about…
612. IT MUST BE CLEAR TO US THAT WITHOUT HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION AND THERE IS NO MOBILIZATION TO STRUGGLE FOR WHAT IS IMPORTANT. (Manuel Ahumada)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): If you are reading this, chances are you care about HR. This Reader is about…
611. DESPITE THEIR BOLD VOICES AND COURAGEOUS EFFORTS, YOUNG ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT, NAMELY A FAR-SIGHTED, HISTORICAL DEAL.
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): If you are reading this, chances are you care about HR. This Reader is about…
610. IT IS A FAIRYTALE THAT WORLD GOVERNMENTS WILL FIX OUR CLIMATE CRISIS. IT IS UP TO US. (Bill Mc Kibben)
-PLANet B does not exist. (Louis Casado) [TLDR (too long didn’t read): If you are reading this, chances are you…
609. IN THE CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IT IS CRUCIAL TO THINK AND NOT ‘LET-ONESELF-BE-THOUGHT’ BY WHAT THE CORRIDORS OF POWER DICTATE. (Gloria Clavero)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about how science and intellectuals are either for or against the ruling…
608. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ON EARTH TODAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION. HOWEVER, PRIORITIES ARE DETERMINED BY POLITICS. (Suzy Kassem)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about the political avenues to follow in human rights activism. For a…
607. I PARTICIPATE. YOU PARTICIPATE. HE/SHE PARTICIPATES. WE PARTICIPATE. BUT… THEY DECIDE. (chalkboard in Bolivia)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about the idea of participation being used manipulatively and how this affects…
606. TRUSTING IN GOD, YES; BUT ALSO RISING TO FIGHT EVIL. (cardinal Raúl Silva H. referring to the human rights struggles against the Pinochet dictatorship)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about proponents and detractors of the role of religion in the fight…
605. THE CULTIVATION OF IGNORANCE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE ELITES (WHOSE ORDAINED RIGHT IS TO GOVERN WITHOUT POPULAR KNOWLEDGE OR INTERFERENCE) IS A RUNNING THEME THE WORLD OVER. (Walter Lippmann)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This time, the Reader assembles a list of ‘iron questions’ I have found here and…
604. ECONOMIC THEORIES NEVER HAD ANY PRACTICAL UTILITY (Karl Popper) –LESS SO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about the rhetoric spread about a benign neoliberalism that, in reality, only…