Hi Anna Wish I could join you, my late grandfather went to Brazil from Germany during the crises of the 30ties.
I am still attracted towards doing the same Our hopes are definitively directed towards the rise of The South as a natural historical possibility to continue the age old European project. Abandoned by the selfish survival attitude of the North, the South can combine its passionate will to live with a matured rationality. Also it can develop an independent global economical position, being able to stand firmly against a future Asian domination. An interesting read, touching deeply this scenario, is 'The Clash of Civilisations and the remaking of World Order' by Samuel Huntington Best Andreas Maria Jacobs -- w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: [email protected] e: [email protected] On Thu, June 16, 2011 13:12, Ana Valdés wrote: > That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the > Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the > Messianic > Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and > we > paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death. > Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish > and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to > recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the > poor and the rebelious. > Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social > democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they > are tired of neoliberal experiments. > Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away > my ancestors from here. > I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and > create. > I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the > North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless > creative world :) > > Ana > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic >> realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic >> realignment >> that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and >> cultural >> exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this >> process countries that once sustained values founded on social >> democratic >> principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) >> to >> the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity >> to >> out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under >> pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the >> social >> contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European >> millennium >> to the Asian. >> >> Best >> >> Simon >> >> >> On 16/06/2011 10:55, "Andreas Broeckmann" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio >> euros. >> > >> > (is this an accidental series, or are we >> > observing the erosion of something big?) >> > >> > >> > >> > Delo - Slowenien >> > Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen >> > >> > Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am >> > Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 >> > vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen >> > Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei >> > anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale >> > Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis >> > für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: >> > "Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen >> > Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie >> > so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die >> > Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend >> > waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. >> > Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt >> > Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden >> > zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper >> > Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so >> > weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte >> > Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte >> > Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche >> > Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes >> > einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats >> > vergessen hat." 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