Catégorie : World People

Linked with Dream Change, and with Global Dialogue Center. Added January 18, 2008: also linked with John Perkins on January 17, 2008, and with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

He says: ”We are watching an empire in the throes of collapse. In Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Iraq, Nigeria — and so many other places — we are beginning to see leaders take stands that oppose the corporatocracy. They are trying to limit debts, are standing up to their rights to have the same weapons as their enemies, refusing to give in to oil companies (Ecuador kicked Occidental out earlier this week), and thumbing their noses at Washington. The Bush Administration has pushed people to the limit. And has proven that the empire is vulnerable. »

He says also: « We must be fully conscious. We must support oppressed people around the world. Starving and sick people. We must recognize that our grandchildren have little hope for stable, sustainable, and peaceful lives unless every child on every continent has equal reasons for hope. We do not want to see this empire simply collapse and be replaced by another. We want to insist that it transform itself into a model that reflects the highest ideals of our Declaration of Independence. We must create a world that will make future generations proud of us. » (For both see his Newsletter May 2006, and Archive Newsletters).

John Perkins – USA

John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.

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Linked with The National Agricultural Research Institute NARI, and with Strategies for agriculture and rural development in Papua New Guinea.

She is a Laureate for the Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life 2006.

Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea

Maria Linibi (51) has become one of the most outstanding role models for women farmers in PNG. Rural women play a key role in this still essentially rural country and economy. However, as in many other areas of the world, rural women often live in the shadow of their spouses. A highly competent business woman in her own right, Maria and her husband have developed their own farm and she tirelessly uses the experience gained there to stimulate and encourage other women farmers.

This has been done under trying circumstances. PNG is a struggling developing country, and rural areas are often neglected in terms of services, communication and transport. It is a testament to the laureate’s courage and persistence that she has been able to achieve such a lot. Born in 1955, she worked as a public servant for many years before leaving this job to work on her own farm in 1990.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “There must be another way to exist, to be a human being, to be a woman”. (Inspired by a text of the poet Rosario Castellanos)

Marta Lucía Micher Camarena – Mexico

She works for The Mirabal Sisters Human Rights Center, and for the Feminist Millennium and Democratic Revolution Party.

They thought of calling her Lourdes, but they named her Lucía. Marta Lucía: “Malú.” She could have been an opera singer, but she became a politician. Decisions, denials, experiences have made the girl that studied piano and song into a defender of women’s rights. A defender of herself. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I could not understand how I, a woman who was illiterate and poor, could contribute to change our lives. I did not understand that the strength of 1000 women was necessary to achieve what we wanted”.

Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García – Nicaragua

She works for Axunica, and for The We Bet on Life Foundation.

She took care of her eight siblings and was not able to go to school. She was mistreated by her mother and also by the man she loved. She is Nicaraguan. Her legal name is: Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García (52). People simply call her “Chilo.” Women recognize in her a common past of poverty and–more than that–a present of organization of acts against disrespect and marginalization. “Chilo” listens, reflects, finds solutions, smiles and never backs down. Never. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

Sorry, I can not get other informations in english about Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García – Nicaragua.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I have fought and I will continue to fight until the last moment. The right to life is not only the right to breathe, but it is also right to education, health and justice”.

Norma Angélica Cruz Córdoba – Guatemala

She works for Sobrevivient (Survivors), Tierra Viva (Live Land).

Norma Angélica Cruz was a student leader and a Catholic missionary, a mother, political militant and widow. A daughter of the war, she survived not only the armed violence, but also violence within her family. When her life partner abused her daughter, she took legal action against him, which led to his trial and sentence. She founded the organization Sobrevivient (Survivors) that takes care of victims of violence, including women and their families. Norma Angélica Cruz is, in Guatemala, a recognized defender of women’s rights. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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Linked with Proyecto Palomas.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “Peace does not need doves. It needs men and women of goodwill”.

Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba

She works for Proyecto Palomas.

For over ten years, Lizette Vila has dedicated herself to working for peace and respect for diversity in society. In Havana, she created a project called Proyecto Palomas (Project Doves) with the goal to bring about changes in people’s life styles and promote respect for human diversity, in order to encourage a culture of peace.
(Read all on 1000peacewomen).

links:

La diversità e la pace nel Proyecto Palomas;

festival internacional del nuevo cine latinoamericano.

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Linked with Redefining cities, and with big-picture.tv BPTV.

He says: « The time has come to face the facts. The urban environment is deteriorating: at least 600 million people, for the most part in developing countries, live in insalubrious housing. At least one third of the world’s citydwellers live in inadequate housing conditions ». (Read more on urbanism).
He says also: ”We need, as a society, in nations large and small, things that bind us together rather than divide us. We need that cement of human solidarity ».

Listen to his five minutes video on Big-Picture.

Wally N’Dow – Gambia

And he says: « If you look at the sum total of all our collective endeavours for human welfare, you realise that unless you have a functioning human habitat, you can’t do anything much, for instance, with education – there’s no housing. You can not do anything about health, clean water, you cannot do anything about physical security of people, you cannot do anything at all – at all – about democracy and civic responsibility when these places fail ». (Read the whole interview on Global Vision).

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Linked with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?, with big-picture.tv BPTV, and with The Public Citizen.

She is Trade lawyer and author, and she is the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, an organization founded in 1995 (as a division of Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy group Public Citizen) to promote government and corporate accountability in issues involving trade and globalization. Wallach herself was an early entrant into the anti-globalization arena, founding the Citizens Trade Campaign in 1993.

She says: ” … it didn’t seem like the corporations who should be fighting us on the food-safety bills were fighting us face to face. I started to get this feeling … that there was another door; I was guarding only one door to the bank, and someone was ripping off the loot through another door. So I started snooping around, and after I’d heard « GATT » and « NAFTA » a couple of times, I started thinking, there’s some international negotiation going on that’s going to undo all this food-safety stuff I’m trying to do here in the Congress, and where the heck could it be going on? … « . (Read the whole Interview on ‘Wallach’s Road to Activism: Trade Agreements and Consumer Protection’).

Lori Wallach – USA

She works for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and for the Citizens Trade Campaign.

She says also (excerpt): … « So, interestingly, the administration’s raising [globalization as a remedy to terrorism] has really made people start saying: « Hm. Well, if that’s true, what does it mean? » And then by [the administration’s] saying more of the same answer, it’s gotten a real backlash: It’s gotten a backlash in the public; it’s gotten a backlash in Congress. They’re saying: « Hm. All right.

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Linked with Center for Nonviolent Communication, with big-picture.tv BPTV, and with Raising Children Compassionately.

He says: “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart”.

Marshall B. Rosenberg, born in 1934, is the creator of a method of communication called « Nonviolent Communication » (NVC) and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international non-profit organization. In 1961, Dr. Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin and in 1966 was awarded Diplomate status in clinical psychology from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. (Read much more on wikipedia).

Nonviolent Communication training evolved from Dr. Rosenberg’s quest to find a way of rapidly disseminating much needed peacemaking skills. The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s. During this period he provided mediation and communication skills training to communities working to peacefully desegregate schools and other public institutions. (Read more on The Center for Nonviolent Communication).

Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA

Listen to his 9 and a half minutes video on Big Picture.

Excerpt: … Question: It seems that when you pursue that line of communication, reflecting back what is then said, your examples indicate that people seem to become less angry or less violent.
Answer: I would say it’s even more powerful than that. When you get people connected to with what’s alive in each other and you transform enemy images that imply wrongness, when you get people out of their heads in these enemy images, and you get them connected to what everybody’s needing, it’s amazing how people who earlier were wanting to hurt one another now want to contribute to each other’s well-being.

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Linked with renewal.

She says: « We want to move to a country that treats us like human beings, where we can live in freedom … Ask anyone, we can’t send our children to school. The one job we (women) are allowed to do here is be a cleaner ».

And: « The Egyptian government will never help. The U.N. just stood by. If there’s no solution we will all have to just kill ourselves. This is the final solution, so that world knows it’s impossible to live like this ».

Fawzia Adam – Somalia (Somaliland *)

She works with RAAD.uk

Born in 1962 to an upper middle class family in the Galgaduud region of Somalia, Ms Asha Hagi Elmi Amin had more opportunities than many of her fellow countrywomen. She did not let them pass her by unused. In 1986 she completed an Economics degree at the Somalia National University (SNU), and by 1991 she had a Masters in Management and Organisational Development and a Masters in Business Administration from the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya.

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