Daily Archives: August 29, 2008

Brazil, Environment, Latin America

Bishop Erwin Krautler’s homily delivered at the Eucharist celebration on the occasion of the third anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang’s assassination.

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Our Lord Jesus Christ,

We celebrate the third anniversary of the death of our Sister Dorothy.  On February 12, 2005 she was brutally executed.  During these three years I have been asked many times why a Sister who consecrated her life to the poor and accompanied their struggle for more dignity, for justice and for the most elementary rights to have a piece of ground where they could plant and reap, why this sister of the poor suffered such a cruel death.  The answer is simple and we all know what it is.  To place herself decidedly on the side of the people not favored by and excluded from a savage capitalist system that reigns in our region, she went against the interests and ambitions of an oligarchy that wants assume ownership of Amazonia to take advantage its riches without a single care for the consequences for future generations.  The motto is “Use it while you can” and who sketches a plan against this attack, places ones life at risk because the representatives of this system that is so aggressive to Amazonia react and conspire immediately against anyone who does not sign on with the plan.  Dorothy was a victim of her love for Amazonia.  Because of this love she lost her life. More

Africa, Economic Justice, Environment, Globalization, Latin America, Peace

World Social Forum

Another Africa is not just possible, it has already begun – InterPress News Service
“Another Africa is not just possible, it has already begun. Africans have begun to articulate their issues in their own way, and to seek their own solutions to their own problems.”

Photos of the World day of Action – January 26th from various parts of our world.
For a complete report of the 2008 World Day of Action, download Terra Viva The Contents include:
  • More Thoughts than Action on Action Day
  • Diversity, a Birthright Waiting to be Recognized
  • Media Dyxlesia and the WSF
  • Post-Socialist Europe: Too Early for Global Worries
  • The World Cannot Stand Back from Colombia’s Tragedy
  • Crisis in Lebabon Costs Pall on WSF
  • Justice Street Performers in Santiago
  • India: From Reflection to Action
  • Burning Snow in Montreal
  • Eviction High on Atlanta Agenda
  • We Now Need Accomplishments
  • Davos Has Lost Its Arrogance
  • Taking Stands Is Vital for the WSF
  • Labour Has Still to Catch Up with the WSF
  • Native People and the World Social Forum
  • Everybody Leaves the Forum Happier, Wiser and Stronger
Peace, Uncategorized

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn

The Independent
We have lost Afghanistan as surely as we have lost Iraq and as surely as we are going to “lose” Pakistan. It is our presence, our power, our arrogance, our refusal to learn from history and our terror – yes, our terror – of Islam that is leading us into the abyss. Until we learn to leave these Muslim peoples alone, our catastrophe in the Middle East will only become graver. There is no connection between Islam and “terror”. But there is a connection between our occupation of Muslim lands and “terror”. More