Dear all, In the current Greek government there are 6 on ministerial positions + 1 (the president of the parliament) women; however, none is a minister (Greek government consists of ministers, viceministers and deputy ministers).
Vasilis On 5 February 2015 at 08:32, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > I was informed the minister of labor was a woman, am I wrong ? > > I copy a greek friend for confirmation, > > Michel > > <<Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 04:25:45 -0800 > From: P2P Foundation mailing list > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Another Politics - After > Syriza > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > So well said, Anna and the critical, consistently missed point. This is > either what is consciously and thus far more easily done, or unconsciously > resisted and replayed with the same destructive underlying constructs that > defeated it the first time and every other time we were told to "wait" > until things were stable, to do this kind of inclusive consciousness, > deep-real-change work "then". > > So in February 2015, we all celebrate a supposedly true and viable > long-hoped-for, essential political-economic change from a leftist/Commons > perspective (and that's what I truly am hoping it is, too), but there is > not one single woman, not one, in Syriza's new cabinet. 100% male > leadership! > > "but changing the general culture of society and social movements is a > long and arduous road, taking generations ..." > > > That's not just glacial movement, Michel it's backwards. And even more, a > bright red flag about underlying potentially damning constructs that not > only alienate so many of us, but worry us because we already know these > often are the poisonous seeds of the later failures to achieve any of these > ambitious dreams, as they have been so many times before. > > E.F. Schumacher was absolutely right -- it takes "whole" systems change > not partial "bits and pieces change" that ultimately, change little. And > understanding what that means, preparing others to understand how important > these issues are to that "whole", actually makes those changes easier, not > harder. Because including all in the "Commons" when trying to transition > to any such reality, only makes "commons sense". > > Not one woman. That's a hard one to explain... > > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: > http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Senior Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org
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