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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human
Rights Reader 340</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">GENUINE PARTICIPATION MUST COME BEFORE ACCOUNTABILITY</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">In truly democratic
societies, active participation is the means for people to voice their
criticism, to open the gates to class actions, to demand justice and to change
negative ingrained traditions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">But true democracies are a utopia (which we still nevertheless
ultimately pursue). On an every day basis, what we see more of instead is that,
feeling voiceless, more and more people now demand to be heard, to have a say.
With a renewed sense of self-determination and self-confidence they want not
only token participation, but voice and ultimately influence.</span>
</p></div><div><br>For the full Reader, go to<br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=6781">http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=6781</a> <br><br></div>Claudio<br></div>