maandag 26 november 2007

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" .

zaterdag 3 november 2007

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.