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<p class="" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human Rights Reader 325</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">HUMAN RIGHTS READERS: I WRITE TO ENCOURAGE, TO
PERSUADE, TO STIR AND TO AROUSE YOU.</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt">[It has been over ten years
that I have been writing these Readers. I thought I would here pull together
some of the roots of my credo for doing so, in part using adapted quotes that I
think apply to them</span><span style="font-size:11pt">].</span></p>
<p class=""> <span style="font-size:10pt"> </span>
</p><p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">First, the confession </span></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:2.5in">There is this passion that drives
the demolishing craft of the essay writer. (L. Padura) </p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt">I am a
hunter-gatherer-composer writer. Human Rights Readers (<span style>HRRs) thus relay true stories and thoughts, in part, of third persons
…with some of the inessentials altered. How does this work? I am an avid collector
of clippings from what I read and use these in the Readers. Does this make me a
plagiarist? No! For two reasons: I give due credit to my sources, and I
rearrange things giving them a new meaning and life. </span>Ultimately, there
thus is my imprint in the Readers.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt">2. I write them to read like
an extended blog aimed at a non-technical, yet somewhat learned audience. I
make it a point for them to be in the best tradition of polemic writing making
sure their tone is incisive, even militant. </span>(Actually, Readers have much
useful intellectual ammunition for the friend of polemics)<span style="font-size:14pt">. I attempt to make them proceed at a brisk pace by
adding my own insights. I try to give you, the reader, the feeling you are
invited to a party, a party for well-meaning adults with a clear sense of
social responsibility. </span><br></p>
<br>To read the full Reader, go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1IN">http://wp.me/plAxa-1IN</a><br><br></div>Claudio<br></div>