PHM-Exch> Food for a like-minded-activists’ thought (2)

[Claudio Schuftan]

Sorry, the previous URL was faulty. This one new works well.
Claudio

>  Human Rights Reader 232
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> *ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN
> HEALTH AND NUTRITION.*
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> Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close
> rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins)
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> 1. You may often have asked yourself as to whether your individual
> contribution in the field of health and/or nutrition makes or is making any
> difference.  This, of course, depends.  Alone, each of us is indeed
> helpless to change very much.  Standing alone to-right-the-world’s-wrongs
> is a false ideal. We have thus plenty to learn from the lessons of mutuality
> or even of militancy.  Individual concern (let alone compassion…) is just
> clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun)   Or, to use an
> old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'.....
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> You can find the full text of this reader by clicking on:
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> http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/human-rights/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/
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>  Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City
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> cschuftan at phmovement.org
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> *Postscript:* I am the first to recognize that the Human Rights Readers
> are often repetitive. But not so in a mechanical way! Repetition in the
> Readers is rather through emphasizing the same point from different angles
> and perspectives. It is my experience that this is the way for HR concepts
> to ’sink-in’ so that you, the reader, begin *using these concepts* in your
> interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in
> action-oriented HR learning.
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