Misc. Postings (page 3)

HOLA ¿ME RECUERDAS...? SOY YO..... LA MUERTE Te envió este memorando, para notificarte que MAÑANA te toca a ti...

¡SI!, ¿pensaste que vivirías mil años?... Calma, no te lamentes; no te lamentes... ni te preocupes mas... todavía te resta todo un día... Y un día puede ser toda una vida... Si lo sabes aprovechar.

¿Cómo?... Ya no postergues tu vida... Ya no renuncies a ella jamás. Tienes 24 horas para demostrar tu cariño, tienes 24 horas para decirle que le amas. Para bailar bajo la lluvia, para disfrutar aquella melodía, para sentir el sol, para soltar tu llanto, para entregar tu alma. Tienes todo un día para pedir perdón, para ser un niño, para ser un sabio, para reír con fuerza, para gritarle al viento, para disfrutar del resto de la vida, que queda en tu corazón...

La vida te esta rodeando a cada instante aunque la busques en el futuro, aunque creas haberla olvidado en el pasado. LA VIDA ESTA ALLI CONTIGO. Te envuelve con su magia, pero tú como un ciego prefieres ignorarla.

Es por eso que te envío este memorando... Para que recuerdes que tienes que morir... Que mañana tomaré tu mano y te llevaré de aquí... Y quiero preguntarte... ¿Podrías describirme el aroma de las Rosas?... ¿Podrías decirme lo que sientes, cuando el viento te envuelve con su ternura, con su brisa y con su fuerza?... ¿Conoces la maravillosa sensación que brinda el Amor? ¿Haz bailado al ritmo de tu corazón?... ¿Haz disfrutado el arte de hacer el amor...SIN NINGÚN limite...

O te ha detenido el temor?. Disculpa si soy indiscreto... Lo que pasa es que me causa mucha gracia el pensar que mañana que te tome en mis brazos... Vas a estar muerto COMPLETITO...AL 100%... No habrá ningún asomo de vida en ese cuerpo tuyo... Y sin embargo hoy que estas vivo... El 75% de tu ser parece estar muerto.

Tengo aquí a muchos suicidas que en el justo momento que me vieron de frente. Descubrieron que la vida es muy bella y mucho mas grande que todos esos problemitas que creyeron irremediables... Justo cuando sus ojos dejaron de percibir colores, cuando su piel dejo de tener sensaciones, cuando sus oídos no escuchaban ni siquiera el silencio, cuando su boca no pudo decir TE AMO, AYÚDAME, TE PERDONO, TE EXTRAÑO, ERES ESPECIAL; cuando sus brazos ya no pudieron abrazar, cuando sus piernas ya no pudieron correr, cuando sus labios dejaron de sonreír. En ese momento todo suicida me suplica una oportunidad sin entender que cada instante, de cada hora, de cada día de su vida es una oportunidad... UNA OPORTUNIDAD PARA VIVIR CON INTENSIDAD...

Y que yo LA MUERTE, SI doy oportunidades. Pero solo a aquel que sabe USAR la vida, solo a aquel que se da cuenta que la vida no se puede comprar con ninguna cantidad de dinero... Que la vida es como una montaña rusa, a la que te subes y LO DISFRUTAS AL 100% porque sabes que el final esta cerca y que no podrás comprar otro boleto.

¿Sabes?... Existe mucha gente con enfermedades que los tienen al borde de la muerte... Gente admirable QUE LUCHA POR VIVIR, POR CONSEGUIR SUS SUEÑOS, POR GRITAR SU AMOR, POR EXTENDER SU MANO... Por dejarle al mundo la huella de su corazón. Gente que aun sabiéndose desahuciada sonríe feliz, persigue sus sueños y SABE VIVIR... A muchos de esos guerreros de la vida si les doy una oportunidad. Porqué merecen VIVIR !!!

Y cuando uno de esos seres que supieron vivir llegan a mis brazos... Los recibo contenta, PORQUE NO SE QUEJAN CON EL CLASICO "SI YO HUBIERA..." Ellos hicieron todo lo que quisieron hacer... Y por eso les indico el camino que han de seguir... Ese camino que sin duda les hará volver a vivir. Así que si no me recordabas, AQUI ESTOY !!! ...Porque mañana te toca a ti... DIA... ¿Qué harás con el?... Si me convences PUEDE que te permita VIVIR. HOY ESTAS EN LOS BRAZOS DE LA VIDA...PERO MAÑANA...MAÑANA ESTARAS EN LOS MIOS....ASI QUE... VIVE TU VIDA !!! ...TE ESPERO...

Atte...LA MUERTE y recuerda que la realidad es una simple alucinacion por la falta de alcohol jejejejejejeje....


ATTE michal


[Friends from other Websites: Judith is a local (San Francsico Bay area) political activist. What she proposes should be of interest to all of us. –Daniel.]

Hi everyone... I just opened a new Yahoo!group discussion for people working on combining activism and parenting in a meaningful way in their lives. I have raised this issue briefly on this forum (and heard from a few Bay Area people who expressed such an interest, and I'm ready to follow through now on building that. My hope is both to build a local community of people looking at better ways to integrate our lives as family with our lives as activists in justice and peace causes, and also to build an international community of people working on these ideas.

Some of the issues about which I've been thinking, and which I'd like to explore more, include the following:

Making meeting times and places, and public events, more child-friendly and more considerate of the needs of many kinds of parents: quality child care for meetings and public events, building something like a Peace and Justice Day Camp or special events for children (building community for children from activist families.) I'd also like to talk about teen activities and building community including secondary school students;I consider people in high school an important part of the community.

Getting together, perhaps once a month, in local communities (say, a weekend potluck) to meet with other families working on peace and justice issues and find common ground and friendship.

Meaningful exploration of balancing the individual and the collective as concerned activists: what are the implications of taking action for a cause that may separate us from our families, including demanding schedules, travel for organizing purposes, risking arrest, legal action, and incarceration? What are the gender and class issues that arise when dealing with these issues? How do we communicate with people who don't have children and may or may not understand some of our priorities and conflicts?

I imagine discussions of work/right livelihood, welfare rights, gay/lesbian parenting issues, class and cultural diversity in family life, schooling, talking to children about injustice and violence, and issues around parenting styles are among the topics that will be up for discussion.

I just opened the site and there are no messages posted yet. Please go ahead and join at activistparents@yahoogroups.com, or e-mail me for more information. We may need to take a look at privacy issues as we go on, but as it stands now it's an open forum.

Looking forward to working together, Judith


24 February, 2001

Press Release

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SUPPORTS DEMILITARIZATION OF VIEQUES

Puri, India – Delegates from twenty countries and six continents meeting in the fishing village of Puri, in the Indian state of Orissa, approved a message of solidarity with the struggle to end the US Navy presence on Vieques. The International Conference on Non Violence and Social Empowerment, organized by War Resisters International and SWADHINA, a women´s rights group in India, was co sponsored by the Gandhi Labor Institute in Puri, site of the conference. From 18 to 24 February, a wide variety of topics was discussed, related to civil and human rights violations, violence against women, indigenous groups, ethnic and sexual minorities.

The struggle for peace in Vieques was part of the discussion about the problems caused by militarism. Robert Rabin, of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (CRDV) was invited to travel to India to present the non violent campaign to end the military presence on Vieques. The declaration approved by the final assembly of the conference includes the following section on the Vieques struggle:
"In solidarity with the non violent struggles represented by the delegates to this conference, we declare our support for the organizations working for peace and justice, and in particular, those that work against all forms of militarism – the draft, the presence and activities of the US Navy on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, US military intervention in Colombia, military violence against the Palestinian people, against the Balkans and Pacific communities, military spending, among other topics?"
Among the countries represented at the conference figured Zimbabwe (Africa), New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Japan, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Germany, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, US, Brasil, Palestine, France, Sweeden and Norway.

During several years the CRDV has carried out an international campaign to expose to the world the violation of human rights by the US Navy on the island municipality of Vieques. In recent years, delegates from the CRDV have broght the case of Vieques to the United Nations (in Geneva and New York), Mexico (Chiapas), England, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, the Phillipines, the U.S. among other places.

The Declaration is presented below in full:

Puri Declaration in Solidarity with Non Violence and Social Empowerment

Representatives of Organzations from twenty countries and six continents meeting at the War Resisters International/Swadhina Non Violence and Social Empowerment Conference in Puri, India from the 18th to the 24th of February, 2001;

In solidarity with the non violent struggles represented by the delegates to this conference, declare our support for those organizations working for peace and justice and, in particular, those working

          - Against all manifestations of militarism – the draft, US Navy presence and activities on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, US military intervention in Colombia, military violence against the Palestinian people, the peoples of the Balkans and the Pacific peoples, military spending, among others;

          - To end the repression and violence practiced against women, justified and supported by judicial, political, and religious structures created by and dominated by men;

          - For respect of the civil and human rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered men and women as well as other minorities in our societies;

          - In defense of displaced and marginalized indigenous peoples and the landless peoples of the world;

          - To promote non violent solutions to conflict resolution;

          - Toward empowerment of marginalised sectors of society to democratize our world through genuine community participation in the decision making processes that are generally controlled by social and economic elites;

          - In defense of the environment and all forms of life.

We hereby recognize our responsability to support the struggles of the sisters and brothers participating in this international conference as our concrete contribution to the work of creating a more just and loving world.

Approved in assembly this 24th day of February in the year two thousand and one in the town of Puri, India.

Forwarded by Carolyn Scarr
(please note reference to Maude Barlow, paragraph 5, who was the author of the article I got from Rev. Sharon Delgado re FTAA)
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Our New Resource Crisis

By Peter Phillips

Imagine, that we are beyond the energy crisis-in that we are used to paying double or triple prices for what in the previous century was a small part of the family budget. But now we are faced with a new shortage that taps another precious resource. Water only comes through the tap fours hours a day and we are forced to pay ten to hundred times what we paid in the 90s.

          Welcome to the world of privatized water, where fresh water is treated like a commodity, traded and sold in the international market to the highest bidder.

           No longer can you assume a God-given right to drink from a mountain spring, but instead you will have to pay a toll to drink from Enron Springs, Monsanto Wells or receive tap water from Bechtel Water Works. Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people already lack access to fresh drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water is expected to rise by 56 percent more than the amount of water that is currently available. Multinational corporations recognize these trends and are trying to monopolize water supplies around the world. Monsanto, Bechtel, Enron and other global multinationals are seeking control of world water systems and supplies.

           The World Bank recently adopted a policy of water privatization and full-cost water pricing. This policy is causing great distress in many Third World countries, which fear that their citizens will not be able to afford for-profit water. Last year in a little known case of high scale international water marketing, a supertanker was reported to have filled up with water from Lake Erie and after paying the Canadian Government they shipped the water to Southeast Asia.

           Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy group, states, "Governments around the world must act now to declare water a fundamental human right and prevent efforts to privatize, export, and sell for profit a substance essential to all life. Research has shown that selling water on the open market only delivers it to wealthy cities and individuals. The finite sources of freshwater (less than one half of one per cent of the world's total water stock) are being diverted, depleted, and polluted so fast that, by the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in a state of serious water deprivation."

          Governments are signing away their control over domestic water supplies by participating in trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and in institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). These agreements give transnational corporations the unprecedented right to the water of signatory companies.

          Monsanto plans to earn revenues of $420 million and a net income of $63 million by 2008 from its water business in India and Mexico. Monsanto estimates that water will become a multibillion-dollar market in the coming decades.


This international water crisis news story was selected by over 150 faculty and student researchers at Sonoma State University's Project Censored in California as the number one most censored news story for 2000.

Credit for original reporting goes to:

International Forum on Globalization: Special Report 6/99, The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water Supply by Maude Barlow www.ifg.org/bgsummary.html

THIS, July/August 2000, Just Add Water by Jim Shultz In These Times, Water Fallout: Bolivians Battle Globalization 5/15/00 by Jim Shultz www.inthesetimes.com

Canadian Dimension, 2/2000, Monsanto's Billion-Dollar Water Monopoly Plans by Vandana Shiva www.purefood.org/Monsanto/waterfish.cfm

Canadian Dimension, 2/00, Water Fallout, by Jim Shultz San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5/31/00, Trouble on Tap, by Daniel Zoll www.sfbg.com/News/34/35/bech2.html

San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5/31/00, The Earth Wrecker, by Pratap Chatterjee

Peter Phillips is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored. Research for this story is from the book Censored 2001, 25th Anniversary Edition, scheduled for release in March of this year from Seven Stories Press.

Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Sociology Department/Project Censored
Sonoma State University
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Friday, February 9, 2001

Bush's Tax Cuts:
Who Benefits?

JOEL BLAU, jblau@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Blau, a professor of social policy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said today: "Bush is marketing a tax policy that redistributes money upward. Earn money as a worker, and you are taxed; make money in the stock market, and you will be taxed less; accumulate enough money, and when you die, your estate will not be taxed at all. The Bush proposal to cut the capital gains and estate taxes thereby illuminates the essential policy bias of the new administration. Instead of 'compassionate conservatism' and calls to leave no American behind, we are faced with a proposal that caters to the wealthiest segment of the population." Blau is author of "Illusions of Prosperity: America's Working Families in an Age of Economic Insecurity."


ELLEN FRANK, frank@emmanuel.edu

Frank, an associate professor of economics at Emmanuel College in Boston, said today: "All of the federal budget surpluses over the past three years and most of the projected surpluses over the next few years can be attributed to one source -- Social Security payroll taxes. These taxes are particularly burdensome on low and middle income wage earners. Forty-five percent of taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than they do in federal income taxes. Yet congressional leaders propose to blow the surpluses on cuts in top marginal tax rates, capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes -- taxes that fall almost exclusively on the wealthiest 2 percent of U.S. households. If these tax cuts pass, Congress will have succeeded in promoting, via the federal tax code, a massive upward redistribution of incomes -- using surplus Social Security and Medicare revenues to finance tax cuts for the very wealthy."


DAVID E. KAUN, nuclear@cats.ucsc.edu

Kaun, a professor of economics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said today: "The single most troubling problem facing our nation is the obscene and growing income and wealth disparity, a problem little mentioned during and since the recent election. This growing inequality has been well documented by scholars across the political and ideological spectrum. Despite this, and contrary to the rhetoric, every facet of the Bush tax package would serve not to stimulate the economy and increase investment as advertised, but rather would further aggravate the unfairness that is rife across the nation. The bulk of the income tax cut, and most if not all of the reductions in capital gains and elimination of the inheritance tax go to those least in need. Further, a mindlessly applied capital gains tax would benefit the clever stock investor far more than the creator of new productive investment. With respect to the elimination of the inheritance tax, the 'mom and pop' enterprises could easily be made exempt without grossly adding to existing inequality."


For further information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
David Zupan (541) 484-9167


The Navy wants to bomb Monterey County???!!!

You can call Senator Boxer's office at 415-403-0100 email senator@boxer.senate.gov or Senator Feinstein at 415-393-0707 email at senator@Feinstein.senate.gov

I also highly recommend the Progressive Secretary, who sent out the letter below on my behalf.

Carolyn
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Dear Carolyn:

Here is a report of a letter that was sent in your name. - Thank you.

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Note: This letter was written 02/09/01 to support a campaign by Pelican Network that was also widely disseminated by the WILPF-news (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom). It goes to the U.S. Navy: Larry Jones (Code N45F), Building 307, NAS Fallon, 4755 Pasture Road, Fallon, Nev. 89496. Further information: http://www.pelicannetwork.net/bombingrange.htm


Dear Mr. Jones:

I am writing to express my strong opposition to U.S. Navy plans for a bombing range at Fort Hunter Liggett (FHL), in Southern Monterey County, California.

These lands are sacred lands of the Salinan (Jolon) Indians. They represent pristine territory that ought to be preserved for posterity, not used for bombing practice.

Bombing would close the lands off from any future public enjoyment, would almost certainly have a detrimental impact on the environment, and would despoil lands sacred to American Indians.

Please cancel any and all Navy plans to use the Salinan Indian lands.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Scarr
1340 Ada Street
Berkeley, CA 94702

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