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Another World is Present - Listen to her Breathing
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Contributed by Jennifer Henry, KAIROS Team Leader for Animation
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| KAIROS Staff at the WSF |
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| Gathering of Social Movements at the
WSF (Click on image for larger version) |
"Not only is another world possible, she is present. If you listen carefully you can hear her breathing."
With these words, Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy closed the Third World Social Forum. Her words were met with thunderous applause, cheers and chants as a packed stadium rose to its feet and poured out into the street to march. Her words resonated with the crowd of committed activists from around the world gathered in Porto Alegre because, in these last days, we have indeed heard this new world breathing...
...She breathes through the words of President Lula as he carries the hope of his people and the World Social Forum from Porto Alegre to Davos.
...She breathes in the joined hands of three Palestinians and three Israelis, as they, after days of meetings, deliver a joint letter of peace to the World Social Forum — a letter that brings a stadium of people to tears.
...She breathes in the Movimento Dos Sem Terra whose confidence and persistence strengthens the Brazilian people as they build communities of hope.
...She breathes through the people of Cochabamba Bolivia who come to the World Social Forum to share with others the world over their opposition to privatization.
...She breathes in the words of Noam Chomsky as he details growing mainstream opposition in the United States to the impending war in Iraq.
...She breathes in the words of Gustavo Gutierrez as he testifies here to a theology rooted in a hermeneutic of hope.
...She breathes in community-shared agriculture, economies of solidarity and fair trade, in music of struggle and theatre of humour and power.
...She breathes in each one of us as we struggle and persist in hope and creativity to make this world of justice and peace come to be in our time for all times.
Keeping the faith from Porto Alegre,
Jennifer
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