Thought and Reflection, 2 years after Egyptian Revolution by: Mohamed S. Kamel

Thought and Reflection, 2 years after Egyptian Revolution

“When leftists support The Muslim Brotherhood”

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2013/01/thought-and-reflection-2-years-after.html

Mohamed S. Kamel*

@mskamel

January 25, 2013

After 2 years of the great modern Egyptian revolution, we all have to reflect and think loudly. We need to reflect on our positions, and our dreams to rediscover our strength needed to build the New Egypt. Thoughts and reflections that need to be examined with open heart and mind.   

It is usually easy to refuse everything and to stay in the opposition camp without taking the blame. It might be easier on the personal level in a short term. Provocation of fear and hate, screaming and destruction are easier than building. Building is the most difficult job, the longest, and hardest to sell.

But for the wellbeing of Egypt and for our own conscious, let’s not go down that road.

That is why some choose a different pass; choose that hard pass willingly motivated by an analysis of the situation in Egypt and an assumption built on the complex challenges facing the new Egypt. The analysis of these aspects has been driven by a reading of the history of Egypt, the characteristic of the Egyptian population, the position of different participants in the Egyptian politics, and the beneficiaries from a failing revolution, in addition to the international input.

That is how a segment of the leftist and liberal thinking chose and accepted the blame of some and the wondering of others for allying with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), as if it is a crime.

But, do I really believe in the MB platform? Mostly not! So why do I choose to support them?  

Egypt’s problems weren’t developed in the last 2 years or the last 6 months, and weren’t expected to be solved or even improved in this short period of time or even in the coming 5 years.

Removing Mubarak’s regime in 18 days was a huge achievement but this doesn’t mean that the country will be rebuilt in 18 month or even 18 years.

Egypt’s problems are an outcome of 40 years of organized crime that worked hard to destroy Egypt’s resources including its valuable human resource, by demoralizing the nation, distorting its history, and uprooting hope and self confidence.

This destruction touched the entire Egyptian society including the political parties, politicians and most of the opposition figures. This polluted and corrupted air penetrated the media be it mainstream or alternative, owned by the government or the opposition.

During these 40 years, the Egyptian leftists and all liberal forces opposed the regime individually and never worked within the society to build it is own grass roots; wrongly believing that they own the heart and the mind of the people.

This manipulated destruction could not be fought with historical slogans that lost their power after 40 years of systematic abuse by the ex-regime and the opposition as well. As such, it is irresponsible to live in the past and hang-up on these slogans.

Only the MB was clever in building its grass root movement and maintaining its direct link with the people; building it is own wealth and solidarity movement across the country that was able to support its members and their family especially throughout the ex-regime’s mass arrests and oppression.

Approaching January 25, 2011, no single Egyptian can claim that they knew that this would be the outcome. So when the regime collapsed, MB was the only group that could act as an available alternative to govern.

Are the liberal forces and the leftist responsible for this outcome? Partially yes! They developed multiple diseases, lost the people’s heart, thinking that pretending to be the only inheritance of Nasser’s era would permit them to abuse people’s intelligence as the regime had done. Leaders turned into television stars, creating a new form of militants who can militate on TV not in the villages and countries. They didn’t lead the society and they were not able to show a leadership for their own audience. Many of them are fighting among each other.

On the other hand, the collapsed regime didn’t give up and will never do. Its remained pockets, “Felol, in slang Egyptian”, are fighting a survival war that would end with their return or disappearance from the map.

Throughout this picture we have to examine the goals and requirements of this particular phase. Understanding this phase’s goals is essential to be able to judge correctly.

What Egypt needs after these 40 years of destruction? Egypt needs a cleanup of the mess created by that regime and a crackdown on all its remaining elements that continue to control every single governmental institutions, juridical institution, media, educational system…etc.

This cleanup and crackdown should go along with rebuilding the confidence, raising the morale slandered, helping the society recover from the reckless attitude, and injecting the society with a healthy hard working and selflessness mind set.

The outcome of this situation is the success or the failure of the revolution. And that is why in spite that many of the Egyptians don’t agree with the MB ideology, they choose to mandate the MB to do the job.

This is the position that has been taken since the second round in the presidential election. This is the position taken by hundreds of thousands of Egyptians. Might it be right or wrong, it is purely motivated by the desire to build the new Egypt.

Understanding that the Egyptian society is in an early stage of learning democracy should lead us to distinguish between the disagreement and the destruction. The dictatorship regime has collapsed and will not come back unless we open the door to its remaining pockets, allying with them in the same line calling for the fall of the newborn administration and not acting as constructive opposition.      

Unfortunately, today’s opposition forces, now calling themselves “the salvation front”, are not motivated by a plan or a building project. These collectives are all motivated with hate, hating the MB and even some of them hating any Islamic slogan or project.

This has been clear for awhile, such as when using Mubarak’s constitutional court to dissolve a legitimately elected parliament, or irresponsibly calling to boycott the elections, withdrawing from the constitution committee and challenging its legitimacy and refusing all actions from the president even those called upon by the revolution (such as removing Mubarak’s appointed attorney general and changing government media appointees).

                   

Some of these opposition figures went as far as spreading a new wave of feeling of failure by raising the expectation limit to an extent that many thought that the 40 years of destruction will be solved and Egypt would be built in 6 months. Blaming the president for a train crash and an arrest of an Egyptian abroad is an easy way.

    

Could this situation change? Yes for sure, but under several conditions and only when the opposition recognizes that their movement should be built on a real alternative project not on Islamophobic acts and slogans. They should come clean by not including any of the old regime figures in their movement.

This could happen only when we stop acting as adolescents. Everyone is working hard to prove their own point of view even if the price is the failure of the revolution. Everyone is dying to prove that their camp is on the right track rather than making it work.

We should respect people’s will and no one group has the right to think that they are above the people’s choice. We shouldn’t think or accept that a legitimately elected system could be removed as done with Mubarak’s regime, because if this happened, it will destroy the newly born democracy.

This situation can change only if we believe in reconciliation. If we understand that freedom and democracy should be built on a learning curve, and by learning from the past. If we understand that there is no such thing as “with us or against us”. We shouldn’t consider the others as the enemies. The only enemy is the ex-regime and the counterrevolution. Not trusting MB is different than hating and excluding them.

This situation can change only when we accept people’s will and don’t consider that we are the only patriots and the only intelligent beings; when we distinguish between the time to demonstrate, the time of intelligent opposition and the time of cooperation with others including the governing party.

To make it happen, all forces in Egypt need to learn how to govern and how to oppose.  They need to appreciate each party’s limit and understand the limits of Egypt’s resources and capacities.

To make it happen, we should regain our moral standards and learn how to deal with each other in a respectable professional way. We shouldn’t forget that Egypt’s media needs to be cleaned up. We should stop listening to the ignorants calling themselves experts and stop trying to invent the wheels.

We need to learn from other democracies. Judges job is to apply the law not to make it, foreign affair employees can’t take a stand against their employer’s instructions, demonstrators are not allowed to get close to presidential palaces, and the media’s job is to inform not to spread lies?

Only at this moment, can we say that real Liberal and Leftist movements are going to be built in the new Egypt. And this will never happen under the existing media stars. 

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional, he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder of the Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Association of the Egyptians of Montreal (AEM), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM) . He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com

Please read my earlier articles on the Egyptian revolution

14 ديسمبر 2012

مغالطات وأكاذيب تشاع عن الدستور

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/12/blog-post_9763.html

2 ديسمبر 2012

لنقرأ الدستور ثم نقرر

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/12/blog-post_9641.html

23 نوفمبر 2012

كلما أصاب غضبوا..... أهم أبناء مبارك؟

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/11/blog-post_100.html

23 يوليو 2012

لقد رحل رجل المخابرات الأمريكيه الأول في المنطقه

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/07/blog-post_23.html

30 يونيو 2012

بداية رؤية الضوء

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/07/blog-post_4189.html

17 يونيو 2012

مبروك لمصر، ولكن المعركة طويلة

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/06/blog-post_7132.html

15 يونيو 2012

معا ننتخب منقذ مصر، صديق أمريكا وأسرائيل

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/06/blog-post_16.html

14 يونيو 2012

نداءأخير إلي كل شرفاء مصر

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/06/14-2012.html

4 يونيو 2012

الحكم على مبارك والجوله الثانيه للإنتخابات

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/06/blog-post_05.html

25 مايو 2012

قراءه في نتيحه الإنتخاب، من ينتصر؟..... الثوره أم عبيد مبارك ؟

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/05/blog-post_25.html

23 مايو 2012

اليوم.......... مصر تنتخب

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/05/blog-post_23.html

26 ابريل 2012

لماذا سأنتخب أبو الفتوح؟

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_27.html

11 ابريل 2012

من يصلح رئيسا لمصر؟

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post_12.html

9 ابريل 2012

رساله مفتوحه لرئيس مصر: كرامة الإنسان المصري

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post_5978.html

2 ابريل 2012

رئيسا لمصر

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_02.html

24 يناير 2012

كل عام ومصر بخير

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2012/01/blog-post_24.html

January 20^th, 2012

A year of a great revolution

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2012/01/year-of-great-revolution.html

22 نوفمبر 2011

المراهقة السياسية

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post_22.html

November 19^th, 2011

In the name of the revolution they are killing it

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-name-of-revolution-they-are-killing.html

October 22^nd, 2011

Revolution to build, not to revenge

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/10/revolution-to-build-not-to-revenge.html

23 يوليو 2011

لا تجهضوا الثورة

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post_6668.html

June 12^th, 2011

The Arab Spring- a real people revolution

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/06/arab-spring-real-people-revolution.html

2 يونيو 2011

الثورة المصرية بن الحلم و الواقع

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post_2684.html

April 3^rd, 2011

Palestine and the Egyptian Revolution

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/04/palestine-and-egyptian-revolution.html

March 4, 2011

الشعب يريد تطهير البلاد... كل البلاد

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2011/03/blog-post_9501.html

February 13^th, 2011

It is a Revolution that is changing the face of the Middle East

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-is-revolution-that-is-changing-face.html

23 يناير 2011

الخوف..والوهن..ولقمه العيش في عيد الشرطه

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_23.html

January 15, 2011

و... لتكن تونس والسودان عظة لمصر

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_6277.html

January 8^th, 2011

(Witten on December 10, 2010)

Is this Egypt that we knew?

http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-this-egypt-that-we-knew.html

2,000 Israelis volunteer to vote for Palestinians

New initiative pairs up Palestinians and Israelis, who cast ballots according to their partner's preference

http://www.haaretz.com/news/israeli-elections-2013/2-000-israelis-volunteer-to-vote-for-palestinians-1.495624

Ofer Neiman planned to cast a ballot in Jerusalem on Tuesday, but not for a party of his choosing. Rather, he decided to “give up” his ballot, as he put it, for an East Jerusalem Palestinian – a man who doesn’t have the right to vote in elections for the government under whose laws he lives, and which has the power to determine his fate.
That man is Bassam Aramin, who, like Neiman, is a peace activist. The two are part of a new initiative called Real Democracy, inspired by a similar movement that sprang up in the UK in 2010. There, supporters were asked to donate as it were their votes to people in countries such as Afghanistan and Bangladesh. In just ten days, the group says, about 2,000 Israelis have volunteered to give up their votes by being paired up with Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank or Gaza.
“I always supported Meretz and Hadash,” Neiman explains. “But I came to the conclusion that specific parties by themselves will not bring about any change from the left, and it's more important to emphasize in various ways that these elections are not actually democratic. For me, it’s part of an ongoing worldwide movement to let people know there’s no democracy here, so instead of these false hopes by voting for left-wing parties, I’m voting on someone else’s behalf.”
Critics might say that there is a flawed logic here. Palestinians have voted in elections; Aramin himself voted for the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996 and in 2006. The latter wasn’t easy, because the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality didn’t want Palestinian Authority voting booths dotting the officially united capital, even though the right of East Jerusalemites to cast ballots was stipulated in the Oslo Accords. And with Hamas emerging as the victor, it was an election many pro-peace Palestinians and Israelis would just as soon forget.
But those elections don’t mean much under the circumstances, Neiman posits. “The Palestinian elections are meaningless, because they’re still under Israeli occupation and they have no sovereignty,” he says.
Aramin, whose 10-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed in 2007 by a border policeman, is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace and is involved in the forum that brings bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families together. He knows that Real Democracy’s campaign will be dismissed by many as a fringe phenomenon. But he hopes that it will make people think twice about accepting the status quo.
“My hope is that a lot of Israelis will start to open their eyes and ask, ‘why are these crazy Israelis giving their votes to the Palestinians, to the ‘enemy,’” he quips. “I hope that through this, more people will realize that what we’ve been living with for almost 46 years is not a normal situation, and it is not democracy. Perhaps this campaign will open up some debate about it.” He asked Neiman to vote Hadash, “because it’s the most serious Arab-Jewish party, and because I like Dov Khenin. He’s always with us, fighting for real democracy and coexistence.”
Shimri Zameret, one of the activists, discovered late Monday that a group of nine Palestinians from Bil’in, a site of regular protests against the West Bank barrier, wanted to participate. Zameret put up a note on Real Democracy’s Facebook page asking for Israelis to give up their vote for the nine, but was skeptical that they’d have enough last-minute takers.
“In 45 minutes, we had nine Israelis come forward. We were all shocked at how fast people signed up,” he says.
Sometimes the Palestinian “match” for the Israeli voter says his or her choice is to boycott the vote altogether. That’s what happened for Zameret, who is voting on behalf of a man named Omar in Hebron.
“It’s a form of civil disobedience. Yes, people get angry at me and say, ‘how do you change the system if you don’t participate?’ But I don’t agree," says Zameret. "Sometimes boycotting is a better way of highlighting the lack of legitimacy of the system.”
Shelly Nativ, 40, who lives in Tel Aviv and works at Open University, was casting a vote for Wajih Burnat, a Palestinian in Bil’in whom she knows from going to protests in his West Bank village. He decided to vote for Ahmed Tibi and Ra’am-Ta’al.

“To have a few million people decide the fate of double the amount of people, that’s not a democracy,” she says. “For me things here have gone so wrong, I didn’t feel comfortable to just go and vote, because I felt that the parties I might vote for couldn’t address the severity of the current situation. So the campaign made sense to me – I can at least give my vote to someone else.”
She hesitates, and moves away from the polling place where she just voted, concerned she could be accused of campaigning too close to the ballot box. “I hope it has some kind of impact,” she adds, lowering her voice. “The positive impact will be if it will somehow diversify the public debate about our state of affairs. It has been very narrow so far.”

Fr. Robert Assaly letter to Dawson College, the letter

[In response to the unjust action taken by Dawson College in regard to the expelling of Mr. Al-Khabaz ; http://forfreeegypt.blogspot.ca/2013/01/dawson-student-expelled-after-finding.html#comment-form

Fr. Robert Assaly one of the outspoken for justice wrote this letter to Dawson College, the letter is addressed to:

·         Mr. Paul Pemberton, the Registrar  ppemberton@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

·         Copied the company responsible of the college system info@skytech.com;

Thanks to Fr. Assaly]

Dear Mr. Pemberton,

I have a daughter attending Dawson, and a son who graduated last year, and another who is considering Dawson after High School. I write you as Dean of Student Records.

I also note that I have son graduated from John Abbott, which I believe also uses Omnivox.

If there is not much more to the  CBC report on the expulsion of Mr. Khabazhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/montreal-dawson-college-hack-hamed-al-khabaz.html, suffice it to say we are appalled. Further note that as a parent I can accept that mistakes are sometimes made, in this case with poor quality computer programming that led to the vulnerability of my children’s personal information. What I cannot accept is the metaphorical shooting of the messenger, Mr. Khabaz. 

Moreover, Dawson by doing so, in seeking to cover its tracks rather congratulating him for detecting the error, is exposing my children’s records to unauthorized access and Dawson to ridicule. I think it advisable that:

1.  This Kafkaesque expulsion of Mr. Khabaz be reversed immediately;

2.  A very public apology be issued to him;

3.  He be financially compensated as a consultant for bringing to light electronic security flaw, in an amount equivalent to that spent or what should have been spent by Dawson and Skytech on computer and records security, or a flat $100,000. That amount is potentially recoverable by Dawson from Skytech.

4.  All students be assured that despite the College’s reputation for mediocrity, excellence will never again be punished at Dawson.

5.  a reply to this email be forthcoming.

Thanks,

Robert Assaly

robertassaly@gmail.com

Dawson student expelled after finding online security flaws

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/montreal-dawson-college-hack-hamed-al-khabaz.html

Petition

www.hamedhelped.com


A Dawson College computer science student was expelled after discovering the personal information of students using an academic online portal system across Quebec could be uncovered.
Hamed Al-Khabaz, 20, said he uncovered the site flaws while working on a school project for the software development club at the Montreal school. Al-Khabaz said he and a fellow student discovered the potential breach by accident.
"I was just trying to help and make sure our data was safe,” Al-Khabaz told CBC Montreal’s Daybreak.
While looking at the student portal's website, they discovered that by exchanging other student numbers in the encrypted links, they could easily obtain information such as the social insurance numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of more than 250,000 students.
Al-Khabaz informed the school’s head of information technology immediately after discovering the vulnerability in the school’s Omnivox software and was congratulated for the discovery. Days later, Al-Khabaz says he ran a program to check if the vulnerabilities he discovered on the site existed, and almost immediately, he received a phone call at home from Skytech, the maker’s of the Omnivox software.
Al-Khabaz said the call was from Edouard Taza, the president of Skytech, who informed him that he had launched a cyberattack on the site that could result in jail time. He told Al-Khabaz to sign a non-disclosure agreement or face possible criminal charges, so Al-Khabaz signed.

'Attack' made portal unresponsive for users

Skytech released the following statement in response to Al-Khabaz’s test for site vulnerabilities:
“The attack … made the College Portal extremely unresponsive for its thousands of users. Had it not been countered, it would have put the College Portal out of order for the entire students and teachers population of Dawson. The attack was traced, and it turns out that it came from one of the students who participated, earlier that week, in the discovery of the security flaw. We therefore decided to be clement, and not to report the attack to the authorities.”
Dawson College then decided to expel Al-Khabaz.
Dawson's administration would not comment on the specifics of the case, but released a statement saying Al-Khabaz was expelled for breaching the school’s code of conduct.
The Dawson Student Union is appealing for the school to reinstate Al-Khabaz.
"Hamed is a brilliant computer science student who simply wanted to help his school," said Morgan Crockett, the union’s director of internal affairs and advocacy.
"Dawson College should be thankful for his talent and foresight. They must immediately reinstate Hamed, refund the debt he has incurred as a result of his unjust expulsion and offer him a public apology."

Oxfam seeks 'new deal' on inequality from world leaders

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21094962

The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said.

Ahead of next week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the charity urged world leaders to tackle inequality.
Extreme wealth was "economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive", the report said.
The global economic system required reform so that it worked "in the interests of the whole of humanity".
A four-day summit involving political and economic leaders runs in Davos from next Wednesday.
In its report entitled The Cost Of Inequality: How Wealth And Income Extremes Hurt Us All, the UK charity said that efforts to tackle poverty were being hindered by an "explosion in extreme wealth".
The richest one per cent of the world's population had increased its income by 60% in the last 20 years, Oxfam said.
It reported that while the world's 100 richest people enjoyed a net income of $240bn (£150bn) last year, people in "extreme poverty" lived on less than $1.25 (78p) a day.
"We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many - too often the reverse is true," said Oxfam chief executive Barbara Stocking.
"Concentration of resources in the hands of the top 1% depresses economic activity and makes life harder for everyone else - particularly those at the bottom of the economic ladder."
The charity called for a "global new deal to reverse decades of increasing inequality".
Its suggestions for leaders due at the Davos summit include:

• Closure of tax havens around the world
• A reversal of "the trend towards more regressive forms of taxation"
• A global minimum corporation tax rate
• Increased investment in free public services and safety nets for people out of work or ill

"As a first step world leaders should formally commit themselves to reducing inequality to the levels seen in 1990," Ms Stocking said.
"From tax havens to weak employment laws, the richest benefit from a global economic system which is rigged in their favour.
"It is time our leaders reformed the system so that it works in the interests of the whole of humanity rather than a global elite."

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أوكسفام: 100 أغنى شخص في العالم كفيلون بالقضاء على الفقر

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/worldnews/2013/01/130119_oxfam_100_richest.shtml

قالت مؤسسة أوكسفام الخيرية البريطانية إن ثروات أكثر الناس ثراء كفيلة بالقضاء على الفقر في العالم بما يعادل أربعة أضعاف.

وأضافت المؤسسة أن مداخيل هؤلاء المئة بلغ 240 مليار دولارا أمريكيا في السنة الماضية.

وفي المقابل، يعيش كثير من الناس في فقر مدقع، حيث يبلغ معدل مداخيلهم دولارا وربع في اليوم.

وفي دراسة أصدرتها المؤسسة الخيرية، قبيل انعقاد مؤتمر دافوس الاقتصادي العالمي الاسبوع المقبل، وسمتها: كلفة غياب العدل، وكيف أن الغنى المفرط يضرنا جميعا، حملت أكثر الناس ثراء في العالم مسؤولية إعاقة الجهد لإيجاد حل لمشكلة الفقر في العالم.

وناشدت المؤسسة زعماء العالم، لمناسبة اجتماعهم في منتدى دافوس ، "أن يلتزموا بتخفيض معدلات الفقر الى المعدلات التي كانت سائدة في العام 1990".

وقالت باربرا ستوكنغ، المدير التنفيذي لمؤسسة أوكسفام، "إن الوصول الى اتفاق عالمي لتعديل مسار غياب العدل أصبح ضرورة ملحة".

وأضافت، "يجب ألا نبقى متظاهرين بأن جمع الثروات من قبل البعض لابد أن يعم نفعه الاخرين، وهم الاغلبية. ففي أغلب الحالات العكس هو الحاصل".

إذ أن "تركيز المصادر بإيدي 1% من سكان العالم من شأنه أن يعيق النشاط الاقتصادي، ويجعل الحياة أكثر صعوبة للباقين من سكان العالم، خصوصا اولئك الذين يعانون في مؤخرة الطابور."

ومضت ستوكنغ الى القول، "في عالم تقل فيه المصادر الاساس، لايسعنا أن نترك المصادر في إيدي القلة من الناس كالارض والمياه ونترك الباقين يتصارعون لنيل شيء مما تبقى."

وترى أوكسفام أن ال 1% من سكان العالم من ذوي الغنى الفاحش استطاعوا أن يزيدوا من ثرواتهم بنسبة 60% خلال الـ 20 سنة الماضية، مع أن الازمة المالية العالمية كانت سببا في زيادة ثراء البعض، لا العكس.

ونبهت المؤسسة الى أن الغنى الفاحش غير فاعل اقتصاديا، ويؤدي الى الفساد السياسي، ويمزق بنية المجتمع، ويضر بالبيئة."

يذكر أن زعماء العالم سيلتقون في منتداهم الاقتصادي السنوي في دافوس بسويسرا لمدة أربعة أيام اعتبارا من 23 هذا الشهر.

Solidarité sbev les peuples autochtones/ in solidarity with the First Nations

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Bonjour

 

Vous trouverez ci-joint l'invitation qui circule sur Facebook pour une manifestation en appui aux peuples autochtones.

 

VENDREDI 11 JANVIER

13H00

PALAIS DES CONGRÈS

 

De même un texte rappelant cerains points saillants d'un rapport qui avait malheureusement été tabletté en 1995, "Le rapport de la commission royale sur les peuples autochtones"

 

Solidairement

 

Lorraine Guay

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VENDREDI 11 JANVIER 2013

à 13h00 devant le  Palais des Congrès

 (1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle métro Place d'Armes ou Square Victoria).

MANIFESTONS NOTRE SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LA CHEFFE THERESA SPENCE

ET AVEC TOUTES LES PREMIÈRES NATIONS

Un juge ontarien a ordonné aux membres des Premières nations de lever la barricade qu’ils ont érigée sur des voies ferrées. La revendication des protestataires s’adresse à Harper : ils lui demandent de rencontrer la cheffe Theresa Spence  Mais il devient de plus en plus évident qu’on se dirige vers une impasse et possiblement vers une confrontation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/02/idle-no-more-blockade-sarnia-rail-cn-_n_2398543.html?utm_hp_ref=canada

IL EST IMPORTANT que les médias ne présentent pas cette situation en tant qu’opposition entre la population canadienne et les Premières Nations comme lors des événements d’OKA

Au contraire, ces mobilisations doivent être comprises comme l’émergence d’un MOUVEMENT POPULAIRE CANADIEN, un mouvement prêt à exiger du gouvernement Harper la fin de ces législations intransigeantes envers les Premières nations et qui ne constituent rien de moins qu’une véritable agression  contre la population canadienne.

Il est intéressant de constater que c’est la partie de la population canadienne la plus privée de droits qui n’est plus passive et qui désormais se mobilise.

Le vendredi 11 Janvier 2013, MANIFESTONS NOTRE SOLIDARITÉ avec la cheffe Theresa Spence et toutes les Premières Nations.

Ils ouvrent la voie. N'est-il pas ironique qu'ils chérissent cette terre plus que nous? Ou peut-être n’est-ce pas ironique mais logique.  Après tout, en effet, les Premières nations habitent cette terre depuis 50 000 ans, et cette longue co-habitation leur a permis de développer un lien culturel avec la terre.

Il est temps que les Canadiens non-autochtones participent à cet éveil et secouent eux-aussi le joug de l'apathie. Cette apathie face au gouvernement Harper contribue à l'érosion du pays et à sa destruction.

Nous, Canadiens, devons faire preuve d'unité et faire front commun.  
Aujourd'hui, nous devons nous joindre aux Premières nations et avec elles prendre le sentier de la guerre... de la solidarité.

Apportez vos bannières et manifestez votre indignation de façon pacifique et non-violente. Il faut que notre indignation soit rendue publique de manière claire et sans équivoque.

Le 11 janvier doit être un "jour de colère". Il est temps de reprendre le contrôle du pays que nous avons cédé au gouvernement Harper. Nous devons nous faire entendre, faire valoir nos préoccupations et faire circuler l’appel : La passivité, c’est fini » !  C'est notre devoir.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11^TH,

13H PM

Palais des Congrès

 (1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle métro Place d'Armes ou Square Victoria).

Stand in solidarity with Chief Theresa Spence and all First Nations.

An Ontario Judge has ordered the First Nations blockade of the railways to be closed down. Their demands are for Harper to meet with Chief Theresa Spence. It is becoming evidently clear that this is heading for a confrontation and a potential stand-off. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/02/idle-no-more-blockade-sarnia-rail-cn-_n_2398543.html?utm_hp_ref=canada

IT IS IMPORTANT that the media does not portray this standoff as "the Canadian people versus FN militants" like in Oka.

THIS MUST BE SEEN AS A CANADIAN POPULAR MOVEMENT. A movement that is ready to demand an end to Harper's relentless legislations that amount to nothing less then an outright assault on the fabric of this country.

I think it is worth mentioning that it is the most disenfranchised portion of Canadians, who are idle no more. 

On Friday January 11th, 2013, stand in solidarity with Chief Theresa Spence and all First Nations.

They are leading the way. Is it not ironic, that they are cherishing this land more then us? Or perhaps its not ironic. Perhaps it is logic, after all the First Nations have been on this land for up to 50 000 years, and such time come a cultural bond with the land.

It is HIGH TIME that non-Aboriginal Canadians woke up, and began to shake off the shackles of apathy.

Apathy is destroying this country. The apathy of the masses is eating this great nation from the inside out.

We as CANADIANS must be united. We must stand as one. Today, we stand with the First Nations as one. We are all First Nations today. We are all warriors in solidarity!

Bring signs, and express your outrage PEACEFULLY and NON VIOLENTLY.
However let your outrage be known **loud** and clear.
Let the 11th of January be a 'day of rage'. It's time we took back our country from this out of control government. We must make our concerns heard. We must spread the word. It IS our duty.