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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 316</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt">THE TIME FOR FALSE NOTIONS IS OVER: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
ARE NOT PERVERSE AGITATORS.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.5in"><span style>-As much as it is criminal to promote a war that is avoidable, it is
also criminal not to promote a struggle that is inevitable.</span><br></p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#333333"> </span></span><br><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">For social activists to evaluate everyday problems
and, with their constituents, to identify matching goals and actions is not
enough; the final objective is to figure out how to get there, through what
processes. For that to happen, a veritable paradigm shift is now deemed
indispensable so as to allow joint decision-making of what needs to be done,
what not, and how to do it. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">(A hint for the post
2015 process?)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">. In the search for the best way to bring about
this shift, the social, economic, political and environmental determinants to
be addressed are many --and some are well known and indeed addressable and
manageable. Changing these determinants, and addressing urgent human rights
(HR) issues, often means stepping on the toes of those who will resist change
when it touches their (mostly non-deserved) already acquired privileges; these
groups will, to be sure, defend their interests aggressively. The need for the
active involvement of
those-affected-who-become-conscious-of-the-‘abnormality’-of-their-situation
(i.e., claim holders) is not questionable any longer. That is the only way
forward despite any doubts, obstacles and/or risks you hear or read about.
Steps in the wrong direction can, with high probability, mean failure. A
political consensus on this may not be easy to achieve yet, but needs to be
built. </span><br><br>For the full Reader, go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1I6">http://wp.me/plAxa-1I6</a> <br><br>Claudio<br>