Human Rights and Justified Sustainable Entrepeneurship China

Debate on this topic: 26 February 8 PM Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 in Maastricht
Introduction by: Willem Offenberg, NRC Handelsblad and FEM Business Chairman: Stafford Wadsworth, Meuse-Rhine Journal, Maastricht.

Offenberg points out the position of China in the human rights discussion. In June of last year, the United Nations established a new Human Right Council, in which China is participating and the US is not! Due to the fight against terror, the traditional point of reference is slowly shifting from individual human rights to collective human rights. Is it time for a new moral leadership? Is China in the race? Since its reforms in 1978, China has succeeded in helping 200 million people to achieve a reasonable income. The realisation of the primary "right to development" seems to have been exemplary. Are socio-economic rights superior to individual rights? The introduction will be followed by a debate in which the relationship between the human rights and the booming economy in China will be discussed.

Nice theses, of which many things can be told. Also the relationship between China and Africa is interesting. They do only trade from oil to weapons. Without moral standards; just trade. Also interesting to see the Chinese influence in Sudan. Oil financed war in Darfur. But it is also true that many of the Chinese people do have an better life than many years ago. Many things can be said, but the Chinese have to decide. We can ask and demand more democracy, but China must make the change. We can ask them to respect the human rights of individuals. Like the journalist Shi Tao. I asked before, to get informed about him, by Amnesty International and other human rights groups.

China is in charge. I think you can make a compliment and in the same sentence also some regrets. In my way of thinking it is possible; Chinese people are intelligent. India is also a large democracy, especially by the number of inhabitants.

Recently, India and China have been characterised as the "rising Asian giant". But poverty and a class-system live in the same country as "Bollywood" and the Indian "Silicon Valley".
Western Europe and America are losing their grip on the world. And maybe it isn’t that bad. Because we have been selfish for many years.

The new world-powers will show a capitalistic neo-liberal way of living. And this way of life has also much problems from that we already suffer. But there are also large chances: a sort of welfare-state in these countries. Because people see how many is gained in trade, and also want their share. They want social security when they are ill or aged.

M.M.

Three poems of Shi Tao

From: For the Mothers of Tian’anmen Square
Here I will stand, as here I will be
the ambassador of a new spring
here I will guard in my intimate heart
the breath of all those children
and wherever you’ll look wild flowers
will bloom again in autumn’s white
and never my mother will stop to wait
in loneliness for him to come back
2 June 2004


June
My whole life
Will never get past "June"
June, when my heart died
When my poetry died
When my lover
Died in an abandoned pool of blood
June, the scorching sun burns open my skin
Revealing the true nature of my wound
June, the fish swims out of the blood-red sea
Toward another place to hibernate
June, the earth changes shape, the river falls silent
Piled up letters unable to be delivered to the dead
9 June, 2004


Pain
The portrait on the wall has lost its powers of reflection,
yet the wind at my window cannot stem this violence.
I torment you through one long night of passion
till we're both completely spent - two kites left in the rain.
Once, long ago, I was the star of a children's play.
Once, long ago, I used both my hands to teach children to sing.
Once, long ago, I heard two crows conversing, lit by the moon.
But the brute fact of cruelty
struck me down. Pain lacks the tenderness of moonlight.
Struggling, trapped in an iron box full of lies, I try to be a model patient,
to swallow a spoonful of spite down the throat of the motherland.
Taiyuan, 6 January 2004

These poems I did publish on this blog for the occasion of December, 10th (International Human Rights Day).

Devotion

Devotion

24 hours and 7 days a week
Someone prays for another one
God listens without a break
Reflection’s of live in a Mosque or Church
There is not many things which divides us from each other
But we are still learning to find the peace within...

M.M.

Yellow angel

Trains are leaving the platforms

Trains bring people to their work or holiday
Coming back with stories or depressions
Songs or monotony
Filled with people with their own stories
Stories they share with each other or which they try to forget
Together or alone
Or together but still alone
Train tell me your story, about our country
Yellow angel, which story did you heard lately
Tell to be not forgotten
Everyone is valuable in this world

M.M.

P.S.: This picture is made by my girlfriend Sally (freelance photographer).

If you're interested in this picture then send a mail to: powergirlxl@gmail.com

Beautiful rose...

Freedom

Stormy weather is outside my door
But the flower of purity blossoms freely
Freedom and Equality is been torn in the hearth
To often and to much
But like a flower can grow on a graveyard or on filthy soil, so it will also be with the truth.

M.M.

P.S.: This beautiful picture is made by my girlfriend Sally (freelance photographer)
If you're interested in this picture then send a mail to: powergirlxl@gmail.com

Human rights and solidarity

Dear people,
My live is going fine. A bit tired but fine. A lot of work done by writing an novel about travelling by train. I remembered my Turkish friends words. Railways spread Socialism through the country. For this reason in Turkey they never decided to built them on large scale as in the formally Soviet Union.
But in the train of tomorrow to my work it will be full of school pupils and some students. Some nice girls and boys and some loudly crowds. This weekend I was delegated for the Congress of the Socialist Party. We discuss our democracy a lot. And it is often wise to do so. Because this is the basic principal of our society.
Upcoming 10 December is Human Rights day in the Netherlands. For this reason, check out your local Amnesty International group on www.amnesty.nl
Because we must be solidair with Chinese internet journalism. Who dare their life for freedom of speech. Because the Chinese government check out a lot of sites. If there is information on it. Who criticised the Chinese government.
I look outside my window, and I see the dark side of the city. Days are very short in winter. It is to become in blues moods.
"Sitting on the dock of the bay- waiste some time" .

Politics often do works by minor majorities unfortunately

Unfortunately only a little amount of people do decide which policy states will do. E.g. George Bush was elected to become President of the USA with about only 5,000 voters who did make the difference for the politics of the USA and properly for a certain larger scale of the world.
As intellectual or whatever this also means is it your duty to talk about it. Because we living in just one world. I like the Jewish saying, which says when you save one person you already save whole mankind.
And we must find a way out of the xenophobia of politics. And find our own nature back of loving an caring for each other. It sounds like "free hugs", but it does go further then this.
Freedom of Speech is also important as Respect. People only want to vote for people who talk hard. Even knowing they don’t have the answers. The Dutch people are looking back for old tendencies.
In the early days, everything was better. Mostly they refer to foreigners, which they do see as the people who spoil our society. But the Netherlands has must have many thanks to foreign labours who give us the prosperity we do have at the moment. Only you see that poverty and richdom is spread wrongly over our country.
The City Kerkrade where I dwell. Is quite poor. And even the efforts of people it is hard to get out of this situation. We must need everyone to take notice and participation to over think this problem and try to solve this.
You can think about micro-credits our something like that to start a little business. Because somehow big companies do not notice we do live and work on the balcony of Europe. Near by Germany and Belgium. Europe is still not fair to cities on the borders of cities. And politicians only think about their own country instead of their own blood-group. (Socialist or environmentalists, or Christian Democrats). We have still to go an long journey.
Meyers, Kerkrade 03-11-2007
PS also look on the website www.kazapoorter.com for nice art work.

Colours of the World

Colours of the world

Umbrella's of the world

This are some impresions of pictures. This are pictures out of Ethiopia!!!

Dali

A tree as a book. Books (good books!) let people grow and bloom.
Books show you the wide world, even when you're at home in your own living- or bedroom.
A window to the world of very many different things.
Sailing ships, South-Africa, the canals in Amsterdam, beautiful flowers, magnificent paintings (like this from Mr. Dali), heroes of music, you name it: everything you can find; you only have to turn the pages...

The Idealist

Hello let me introduce myself. I am a world citizen. I do live in the Netherlands and I am very tired of the racistic agenda of many right wing politicians in our country. And always there is an new attempt to start over again an old discussion. Mostly is only spoken about people and not with people.
It is also an sort excuse for my countryman and woman. Our princess Maxima did get this week blames on her. Because she said the Dutch don’t exist. She means to say, the Dutch people have always been a mixture of several races and cultural background. Our country became a big nation because of humanist like Erasmus. An Jewish refugee for Spain. He meant a lot for philosophy in the world and also for our country. But the Dutch where also slave traders and do have an negative history. Many things to discuss.
Also Maxima have never felt the ignorance of Muslim immigrants e.g. in our country. She lived in an fenced world. In Argentina she was protected because of her father yob as minister of agriculture in the time of the dictatorship of Videla. For this reason here father was not welcome on her marriage in Amsterdam.
As world citizen I am concerned about the environment in my little city as in the world. I know there is no backstairs to fled from the world. We are al members of this world. We must save the planet.
This is an little explanation of myself as world citizen.
Weekly I will try to put an article on the weblog to show some reflections of some action.
I deeply sympathise with labour workers in Africa. (Zimbabwe) or Buddhist Munches in Myanmar. We must boycott and show them some respect.

No Pasaran.
Because the world society did beat apartheid in South Africa.
Why should we not beat other problems in society.
The Idealist.

Become world Citizen in several steps?