546. DEVELOPMENT OUGHT TO ACTUALLY BE A PROCESS OF SUBVERSION OF OLD WAYS SO THAT NEW WAYS CAN REPLACE THEM. (G. Axinu)
. -Development must actually ask what we do want to have today and in the future. So, for development to
545. AS I SEE IT: HAVE ALL THE FACTS ABOUT GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ONE PLACE. (Part 2 of 2)
. Markets discipline trespassers instantly; they hold, as it were, permanent elections (Susan George) -Big money is nomadic and travels
544. AS I SEE IT: HAVE ALL THE FACTS ABOUT GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ONE PLACE. (Part 1 of 2)
. -We will not go back to normal, because normal was the problem. (Graffiti in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 2019)
543. WE HAVE RANSACKED THE PLANET IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT, SOMETIMES FOR NEED, MUCH TOO OFTEN FOR GREED. (Anwar Fazal)
. -A new world has emerged where ‘Banksters’ and ‘Gangsters’ are playing critical roles. …wither the rights of nature. 1. Poor Mother Earth:
542. WE NEED TO MOVE FROM COUNTING WOMEN TO LETTING WOMEN COUNT.
-The core issue is not just the existing gender gap; it is the power gap. (Achim Steiner, UNDP) This means that we are talking about addressing women’s autonomy and embarking…
541. THE AUTOCRATIC CONTROL OF DISASTER CAPITALISM HAS GONE OFF THE RAILS. (Rob Wallace)
-(Globalization): I know your enemy well; he is the same we have here. (Nicolás Guillén)
540. HOW OFTEN ARE NGOs THE EXECUTIVE ARM OF PHILANTHROCAPITALISM? (Eduardo Luque G.)
-Too many NGOs still follow a charity approach and call it development. 1. Philanthrocapitalism is a huge business generating something of the order of 150 billion a year. These organizations…
539. ALLOW ME TO DECONSTRUCT THE IDEA THAT THE MASSES HAVE BEEN THE AGENTS OF HISTORY.
-History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups have never given up their privileges voluntarily. (Martin Luther King) -Fake news are not new. In the…
538. WHAT COMPLICATES OUR HUMAN RIGHTS WORK IS THE LACK OF INFORMATION WE HAVE AS RELATES TO HIDDEN, SEMI-HIDDEN OR FALSE TRUTHS.
-This is the truth. These are the facts! The truth will be constructed from the facts. 1. Mind you: Before any truth, there is a judgment that is not objective,…
537. SPONTANEOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ARE INCREASINGLY AND FREELY MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
-THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TODAY IS TO ACCELERATE THIS RAPIDLY SPREADING TREND. -True, we have a wide diversity of local human rights (HR) activists; the challenge is to…