PHM-Exch> Food for a civic driven thought (2)

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 306



*HOW MUCH UNDERDEVELOPMENT CAN GLOBAL SECURITY TOLERATE AND HOW MUCH
POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CAN ALLEGEDLY DEMOCRATIC STATES PUT UP
WITH? *(part 2 of 2)




“If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal”. (Emma Goldman as
cited by M. Engler)



*The power of organization (communities)*
Traditional state authoritarianism, more recently combined with market
fundamentalism, have further fragmented and decimated already divided
societies. Poor people have easier access to jail than to justice! How can
the global citizenship survive the so many forms of violence,
marginalization and human rights abuses? The human rights framework
contends that this is only possible if and when communities can (re)invent
themselves as collective claimants.


So, ‘what do we do on Monday morning’? is the very practical question to
answer when trying to come up with concrete applications of some of these
abstract ideas for a truly democratic organization for development.

The full Reader can be accessed at

http://wp.me/plAxa-1EK

Claudio
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