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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Human Rights Reader 232</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 2in"><span style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins)</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line"><font face="Times New Roman">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This, of course, depends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alone, each of us is indeed helpless to change very much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Individual concern (let alone compassion…) is just clearly less powerful than organized solidarity. (Tikkun)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Or, to use an old adage, 'divided we beg, united we demand'.....</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/actions-and-activism-in-fostering-genuine-grassroots-participation-in-health-and-nutrition/</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Postscript:</b> 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 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">using these concepts</b> in your interaction with others. That, I see, is the ultimate goal in action-oriented HR learning.</font></font></p>
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