Mois : février 2006

Index February 2006

Kimpa Vita – Congo 1684 to 1706

A truly remarkable African woman not so long ago (was) Kimpa Vita / Dona Beatriz. Before I give a brief account of her life and history I would like to share one of her prophecies: She announced that she would return as a man in future and build a huge Church independent of Rome.

Kimpa Vita / Dona Beatriz, 1684 – 1706, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo / Northern Angola. In recent history Africa has been home to a number of Spiritual icons, who have inevitably changed the face of Christianity by creating Indigenous African Churches, (by Elaine M. Lumbu, see on this page).

Kimpa Vita – Congo 1684 to 1706. This is a drawig (1), showig how she seemed to look like in reality …

… and here how she is seen by today’s peoples.

(1) I found this drawing on this Google images search, the page is said belonging to perso.wanadoo.fr/ eglise.animiste/polyt2.htm, a page of the catholic church, but this link is actually not working. And, sorry, the site the Internet Archive is censured here in the U.A.E. So, if you live in a country having access, just click on this link (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.eglise.animiste.fr/).

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Oung Chanthol – Cambodia

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

Linked to our presentation The Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center CWCC.

Linked also to our presentation The Fight against Trafficking in Women and Children.

She says: “The suffering of women encourages us to work, to do more to help. We are human beings. We cannot ignore their situation.”

Oung Chanthol – Cambodia

She works for the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC).

Oung Chanthol (born 1967), was cofounder of the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC) in 1997 and is its current executive director. The CWCC has helped over 55,600 female victims of violence, rape and trafficking in its drop-in centers and shelters. It provides legal counseling, victims’ reintegration, community awareness programs, and raises general public awareness through a media campaign. The center receives financial support from the German government and international NGOs. The Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center looks similar to other shop houses in the area. The steep stairs lead to a small office where its founder does dangerous work saving the lives of thousands of Cambodian women. The face of a woman stares out of the posters on the wall. One poster reads: “Domestic violence is condemned by every culture.” The other pronounces: “A life free of violence: it’s our right.”
The woman working in this room has dedicated her life to eradicating violence against women through the center that she co-founded and currently directs. Indeed, when the center was established in 1997, Oung Chanthol didn’t know that she would have such an arduous task ahead.

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Edward Broadbent – Canada

Edward Broadbent is President of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, a Canadian sponsored initiative in support of international human rights issues.
Edward Broadbent holds a Ph.D. in political science and began his career as a professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. In 1968, he was elected to Parliament where he served until he resigned in 1989. From 1978 through 1982, Mr. Broadbent also served as Vice President of Socialist International, an organization which links social democratic parties around the world. He was particularly involved in efforts to bring peace to war-torn Central America.

Edward Broadbent – Canada

Mr. Broadbent was made a member of the Canadian Privy Council in 1982. As Leader of the New Democratic Party, he struggled for an equitable tax system, equality for women, the constitutional entrenchment of aboriginal rights and relief from poverty for Canada’s children. In his last years of leadership, he was often chosen as the man most Canadians wanted as Prime Minister.

He says: « There is today a new-found vitality in the UN which must be nurtured and a potential for bold and principled action which needs to be channelled and developed. The year 1995 offers a unique opportunity to do that. »

« Your 50 Communities programme is an imaginative means of illustrating the spirit and purpose of the UN and showing that the values and principles it fosters belong to all peoples, regardless of culture or history. It should also forge enduring links between citizens and this distant, New York based organization which, for too many, is little more than symbols, blue helmets, a flag, white vehicles, appearing from time to time in troubled corners of the world. » (See on International Institute for Sustainable Development).

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Judge Luigi Tosti – Italy

You may see that I present more rebells these times. Yes, I am convinced that rebells are an important part of our culture, of our society, of the struggle for freedom. No freedom has been won without in the beginning a person or a group of persons trying to get this singular part of freedom against a majority of persons not willing to give this freedom. Every cultural changment of any society is more or less in a conflict with what is an installed culture. Most of the rebells pay a price, with life, or regarding their privat and professional situation.

We in Europe have some experience with all that, and meanwhile we may have some skills to handle situations – more or less – but we have still work to do. In any way, rebells are part of our life. So, let’s go on with the show. Today with an Italian Judge challenging us for a question important for us all.

But, again, this blog here is NOT the place to discuss this question. You may have strong convictions, here are presented persons having these question. The answer is given in any other discussion forum.

Judge Luigi Tosti – Italy

The History: On August the 15th, 2005 pope Benedict XVI states in his homely : «It is important that God be visible inside public and private houses, that God be present in the public life, with the presence of crucifixes inside public buildings. »

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Jens Bjørneboe – Norway 1920 – 1976

Jens Bjørneboe (October 9, 1920–May 9, 1976) was a Norwegian painter, dramatist, essayist and novelist. His first published work was Poems (Dikt) in 1951. He is widely considered to be one of Norway’s most important post-war authors. Bjørneboe identified himself as an anarcho-nihilist. He was both a sharp critic of the society and was obsessed by the question of evils and wrong doings. He thought himself as a manic-depressive person with abusive use of alcohol. Jens Bjørneboe was born in 1920, in Kristiansand. In 1943 Bjørneboe fled to Sweden to avoid forced labor. During this exile, he met the German Jew Lisel Funk, who would later become his first wife. After having struggled with depression and alcoholism for a long time, he committed suicide on May 9th, 1976. (Read all the rest, also his literary career – rest on wikipedia).

Jens Bjørneboe – Norway

He was thinking about Human Rights, like here: « To me the United States once symbolized everything that guaranteed the human rights which made life livable—but it did so less and less. Passion may arise with a sudden unquenchable power, but it may die out slowly. I cannot say exactly when it was, but one day I realized I no longer loved the United States. It must have been in the beginning of the 1950s. America had become dangerous, frightening, scary. It represented conformity, corruption, violence, the world’s strongest military, and it aspired to become a world ruler … we who loved America » (1967) ».

Amputation – Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle: The Norwegian iconoclast Jens Bjørneboe described this work as « a wild, almost surrealistic play—partly sinister, partly comic … directed against those forms of society that do not allow room for people who think differently from those in power. » In the horrible world of Amputation the dissident indivudal who cannot be normalized by conditioned reflexes may yet serve society—in the medical sense ». Bjørneboe wrote two versions of the play.

Here, in one volume, are both, plus supplemental texts that provide all the materials for an extraordinary reading and, for the avant- garde theatrical group, an extraordinary production of Bjørneboe’s shocking and prophetic warning ( Edited by Karl August Kvitko, Xenos Books, Los Angeles, February 2003, ISBN 1-879378-46-9 (paper). $15.00).

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Moses Zulu – Zambia

Linked to our presentation of Children’s Town Malambanyama Zambia.

Also linked to our presentation of The International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement.

He is one of the New Heroes with the project Development Aid from People to People in Zambia (Children’s Town).

Moses Zulu – Zambia

He is a dynamic 40-year-old with a winning smile and extraordinary determination. In 1990 Zulu opened Children’s Town to serve Zambian children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic and other causes. He is devoted to helping these orphans find their way in life.

The program has grown from a handful of children living in tent shelters to almost 300 children and a staff of 22 living in six different houses. The grounds include a primary school and a community center. Zulu’s vision includes a plan to make Children’s Town self sustaining.

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Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan

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

Linked with the Institute of war and peace … , with ANESMI, with Reporters without borders, and also with Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan, and with Central Asia, Kazakhstan.

She says: « There should be peace on earth without war, hunger, and cataclysms. Natural calamities are beyond our control, but the others we can prevent! If the women of the world stand up to protect humankind, if they take an active social stand and do not let dictators and rogues rule, there would not be wars, genocide, crimes against humanity; there would not be hungry and poor people. There is no place for fanatics and terrorists in a thriving world. What we have in real life is quite the opposite. Cruelty, thirst for power and greed rule the world. Egotism and violation of moral principles by some state leaders bring their people to poverty, aggression and envy. They breed in their people the desire to hate and kill others. This is against human nature. » (Read here about her).

Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan

She is working for 3 associations:

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My answer about … Shafik Handal

About Schafik Handal- El Salvador, on this site on January 28, 2006.

Dear Mr. Reynaldo Contreras-Valle,

sorry for you beeing troubled.

I do not enter the ideological dispute about any of the persons I present on my site, thinking that there are enough battles about ideology around the world, and in most cases each party is right in some aspects, and also wrong in others. So, in this way you have your opinion and I respect it as what it is: an opinion, not more.

Look, facts can be seen in different ways, I am sure an adversary of your thinking could proof that his way of thinking is as good as yours.

I present persons of different activities and believes, playing a role in the changing of our world, by working on some aspects of the humanity (Human Rights, Economy, Society etc.). I present persons I am ok with, but also others I have more difficulty with.

The goal of my sites is a vision about how rich, different, creative is our humanity in its going on for a better world. We all share one thing: the hope to make things better than they are. If we would agree each other, we would see the result on this humanity. But we do not.

An other goal is to interconnect people – as a non-directive form of networking. When we look to all what is done, with enthusiasm, with courage and selfless service to others, we can get a piece of hope for our humanity. We hear so many bad news, someone has to show how good we are, how much is done, how devoted many of us work for others.

What is very different in every one of us is our way of looking at things. Every one is individual in the way how our brain is interconnected in itself. Every one of us is seeing the reality in a slightly different way … as long as we are not stopped by ideology.

Nobody is really perfect, we all have strong sides and weak ones. But together, when comparing our visions, we can create new visions. New creative visions for our challenges.

But this needs the ability to listen to those having not the same viewpoint. Without this ability, nothing goes on in this way.

If you cannot accept the visions of those not sharing your viewpoint, I can not help you. I will let your answer on the site and put my mail there also.

I have no questions, as I am not battling on ideological items.

Have a nice day, Heidi.

P.S. of March 4, 2006: As I see today, the statement in question has been retired. I let my answer as an explication about the goals of this blog.

Kailash Satyarthi – India

Linked with our presentation of South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

Also linked with our presentation of 6th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

Kailash Satyarthi has saved tens of thousands of lives. At the age of 26 he gave up a promising career as an electrical engineer and dedicated his life to helping the millions of children in India who are forced into slavery by powerful and corrupt business- and land-owners. His original idea was daring and dangerous. He decided to mount raids on factories — factories frequently manned by armed guards — where children and often entire families were held captive as bonded workers. (Red more on this page).

Kailash Satyarthi – India

He says: « If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery. »

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