<div dir="ltr"><div><br><p class="" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human Rights Reader 322</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">YES, WE EVENTUALLY ALL HAVE BEGGING RIGHTS, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IT IS ALL
ABOUT. </span></b><span style>(part 2 of 3)</span></p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Only social movements can push politicians to turn
their promises first into ad-hoc policies and laws and then into actually
enforced social programs.</span></b></p><span style="font-size:14pt">It is essential for us to
understand the history of prior social movements that have either assured the
fulfillment or human rights or, at least, prevented their violation. We
will then see that only organization and social mobilization ultimately create the
social power needed to stop policies that violate human rights (such as the privatization
of health care) and replace policies that meet the true needs of the people.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">To give true hope to the people being mobilized, human rights work is to be
understood as a 'practice in action' . Only then can we say that
the growing human rights movement is not an intellectual-type movement, but one that
reacts <u>and</u> acts when faced with concrete situations in its respective environment.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span style></span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">If we want to
build up capacities in a block of countries to follow the HR strategy, it is
essential to get social movements going within those countries and outside them.</span><br><br>To read the full Reader, go to<br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1Iy">http://wp.me/plAxa-1Iy</a> <br><br></div>Claudio<br></div>