Dear Al, your worry is important, but we may first fight for more immediate
matters, I just read an article by Serge Halimi in the Monde Diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/, in wich he describe, in French, sorry,
the fact that Internet is a very useful and dangerous tool at the same
time. His concept is that we (highly skilled intelectual people) may loose
a lot of time in surfing in the web looking after an unreal meeting of
commited people able to change the world... I think he is partly right! If
I look up after how many hours I spent reading posts on lists and looking
after interesting sites, I could say it's a huge amount of energy used in
communicating with people and probably most of it will only be words in the
wind, virtual wind of course ;-)
So, we probably must share our time between surfing, thinking and acting
and the most relevant order is probably: thinking, acting and surfing.
- thinking in political, economical, social, technological and
environmental sustainability policies to be applied in a master worldwide
program
- acting in
* promoting and spreading that master program (speaking, writing,
publishing, broadcasting (radio and tv), convincing, distributing leaflets,
participating in demonstrations and conferences),
*changing our and neighbours day by day living habits,
*questionning the unsustainable way of living of people who lack
understanding the global crisis we are running to,
*participating in local sustainable projects,
* educating our kids and friends to open their eyes and see the
worldwide gap reality in between poors and richs,
* convincing our local politician that they should propose real
changes laws to reach a sustainable development in a world of peace and
security
- surfing is then a way to contact people in other areas of the world, to
exchange ideas and strategies and spread the will of change in a global
action...
Pretty hard, isn'it?
But essential !!
First of all, we must create a framework to stabilize the economic world
evolution, and, at that point, the best solution is the one proposed by SP,
the Simultaneous Policy, which allow every part of the current big fight to
be satisfied.
This program will allow:
- poor countries to benefit of a global and real help to reach correct
standards of living in a sustainable and independant way (poverty
eradication and real democracy)
- developing countries to reach a sustainable development including correct
social and environmental conditions (neo-colonialism eradication)
- developed countries to stabilize their level of consumption and
participate into a cooperative way of living in a global dimension
(eradication of over-consumption)
- politicians to become again the democratic representatives of the
population (eradication of corporate funding and improvment of people
participation in political decisions)
- transnational decision-makers to safe their face, avoiding being
ridiculous (end of full dependance to shareholders short term wills)
I'm not the founder of SP, but I'm fully participating in the project since
I read John Bunzl's ideas, I've found them so evident, so feasible, that
I'm convinced SP is the perfect platform to conciliate all the different
positive currents fighting for a change to create a world "based on right
livelihood and right human relations: Right Livelihood representing our
need for a lifestyle more consistent with Nature and human nature; Right
Human Relations representing the recognition that sustainability cannot be
achieved without the cooperation and unity of all peoples" (John Bunzl 1999
http://www.simpol.org )
So, Al et al, posts readers and deep thinkers, why don't we unite our
efforts in a common framework and propose a global program to be
implemented simultaneously by all the nations?
Thanks to this project we can act locally thinking globally and promote the
change from the roots to the top, showing to the powerfuls this planet is
ours, not only theirs.
Thank you.
Excusez-moi d'envoyer ce message en anglais sur des listes francophones,
mais le temps presse et malheureusement, je n'ai pas le loisir de traduire
vers le francais ce petit texte, mon emploi du temps combinant la
menuiserie et les traductions pour nourrir la famille et l'agitation
politico-alternative pour laisser aux enfants du monde une planete sur
laquelle on puisse encore aimer vivre quelque soit l'endroit ou l'on se
trouve, m'occupe serieusement les mains, les jambes et l'esprit. Quant au
coeur il est tout voue a ceux qui vivent et veulent le faire d'une maniere
sereine, equitable et ethique.
A+
>Georges
>I am a law student in New Zealand.
>I am thinking of running a project designed to help non-commercial interests
>(including NGOs) to become more visible on the net. Have a look at my
>(unprofessional) site and see if it may help the cause you are fighting for.
>If it does - may be we should team up. I described the idea on:
>http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~inna/My%20webpage.htm
>
>Al
>> Life is made of compromises.
>>
>> Day by day living is a real struggle and requires full attention,
>> particularly in third and second world countries (that means for most of
>> the world population!).
>>
>> NGOs are working pretty hard to reduce pain and poverty.
>>
>> What I was surprised by when I visited several development projects in
>> India last year was the lack of communication between development projects
>> sometimes only separated by a very short distance. The result is the lost
>> of a huge amount of energy because of the duplication of researchs in the
>> same field about the same problem.
>>
>> I think the Dr Michel Loots' project Vaccine for Poverty
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is an intermediate solution which allow NGOs
>to
>> receive information to be used directly in their project and to be
>diffused
>> to the local decision-makers, students and investigators.
>>
>> Other people is required to fight against World Bank, International
>> Monetary Fund, European Commission projects which can worsen the poor
>> population situation. These persons are not the same ones as the ones
>> fighting at a local level against the effects of the capitalistic
>> liberalisation.
>>
>> We must organize ourselves following the different levels of adversity we
>> have to fight:
>>
>> - local organisations to improve population welfare
>> - regional teams to follow implementation of local and regional
>development
>> policies
>> - national consultancy organisations to scrutinize governemental projects
>> signed with international organisation and foreign countries (development
>> projects, loan, import-export treaties, etc)
>> - international participation in worldwide organisations to propose and
>> survey international laws implementation (as we do in ISPO,
>> http://www.simpol.org)
>>
>> This several levels requires, at each step, very skilled people. I
>consider
>> Humanity Development Library as one of the tools which can spread
>knowledge
>> at the local level, giving NGOs the way to access useful information at a
>> very low cost. It's not a cure-all tool but it's a very positive one and
>> it's affordable, if, of course, local NGOs have their own computer, the
>> discussion goes then on the reality of the digital divide and the accuracy
>> of spending funds in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
>> instead of hospitals, schools and more basic needs, but that's another
>> discussion...
>>
>> Thanks.
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