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At last - action to make the whole world kin
By Wendell W Solomons
This would sound a curious affair to you. When bombs were being unleashed on Yugoslavia I was chosen across oceans in Sri Lanka to serve as one of four directors of a group marching on the Pentagon. How I was chosen was my battle on the Internet where I had dropped everything else but this struggle for the three months.
Much water has flown under the bridge since then. It seemed that we lost the battle and also lost the war in toto. The immediate work-face we had to tackle is network media which broadcasts to hundreds of thousands of people, to take a glaring example, on issues such as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Our opponents who used network media, were emboldened. They took over as Masters of the Universe.
Today, BP's Tony Hayward flaunts before media his master's keys. With thousands of livelihoods and the environment threatened along the US southern coast, Tony Hayward selected to fraternalise with notables at a J P Morgan event where he had his yacht raced.
Tony Hayward harks back to the Roman cultivation of apathy. More, in what we take to be the government sector, US President Obama selected to play golf with a key executive of Union Banque Suisse, one of the banks which shrouds accounts in secrecy.
Yet, the battle has come home to roost in the USA . The available victim for attending to corrosive assets - oil spill or banks - is the tax payer in the first place. Yet, the tax payer cannot hope to repair in full a now historical damage to the environment.
Yet, we have item 2. Most European states sent the Israel foreign ministry notes to deplore the abduction of a flotilla of ships in international waters.
This issue is already making the whole world kin. Norwegian dockers were the first to refuse to work on Israeli cargoes. We know that the same thing happened in a US port. The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition has been demonstrating outside this port.
This second issue already reaches Europe, some parts of the USA, and extends onwards from Turkey and Iran, to all of Asia. It will proceed to Oceania, to Africa and South America. The ship currently in view has been re-named "Mariam" (the Arabic for "Mary") and 50 women, Christian and Muslim, will travel from Lebanon to Gaza to deliver children's supplies.
Events tell me that if women began to play a role such as this, that will galavanise people further, world-wide.
This second event will amalgamate and extend the battle of the US Gulf coast.At last - action to make the whole world kin.
