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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Human Rights Reader 233</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: CONNECTING THE IVORY TOWER TO MAINSTREET. (C. L. Schur)</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern)</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. </font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="COLOR: #1a1a1a"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">1. As part of a true global people’s movement, we have to learn to move from being-a-potential-power to being-a-real-power in world affairs; we have to liberate ourselves from simplistic general global objectives <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that lack a clear sense of direction and purpose lest we get tangled up everywhere. There are concrete things to do to get us to such a position of real power…and it is the actions of those most affected –and not just of the intelligentsia– that will ultimately count. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">You can find the full Reader in </font><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/human-rights/%20learning-from-experience:-connecting-the-ivory-tower-to-mainstreet/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/01/31/human-rights/ learning-from-experience:-connecting-the-ivory-tower-to-mainstreet/</font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
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