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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In Swedens public Radio-channel1 , heard by many in
whole Sweden, people have the opportunity to ring in smaller speeches over all
kind of issues. This is banded, and a few days later some of them are
chosen by the channal and could be heard in the program "Klarsprak ", which
meens "clearly said" or "plain speeches" or something like that, with the
meaning that you tell the truth, what you really think. People can
express what they want, and are not interrupted by anybody.The same program
is sent three times that day, and the next day there is a new "Klarsprak.
Sometimes issues are debated in this program over days or weeks. Todays
theme was reflections and reactions to last weeks attack, and to what Busch and
others have said and done. They all where in a spirit of peace
and conflict-resolution, with many worries about what USA will do
now. They all expressed a deep compassion with the victims and their families,
but aswell with other victims in the world. I cannot resist this opportunity to
tell you that my 15-year old daughter Amanda was one (the first) of todays
speakers...I am so proud! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With love</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Agneta Setterwall</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=artsilva@mail.eunet.pt href="mailto:artsilva@mail.eunet.pt">Artur F.
Silva</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:00
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> A subtle change in the
news?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello all:<BR><BR>I have noticed yesterday a very interesting
change of "focus" in the <BR>news about the terrorist attack in the Portuguese
newspaper I normally <BR>read ("O Publico"). Until Saturday, the news were the
ones you all <BR>have seen on most newspapers and TV news. But yesterday many
<BR>articles were trying to analyze the profound causes and were asking for
<BR>peace and justice in terms very close to some texts we saw on this
list. <BR><BR>There were at least five articles from writers of all over
the world<BR>(some also published in foreign newspapers) advising against
<BR>revenge and pointing out the dangers of an unjustified war, even<BR>if
that conclusion was reached from many different perspectives. <BR>That trend
continued today with an article from an English<BR>author and
professor.<BR><BR>I have tried to see if the same trend was present in other
Sunday <BR>newspapers but I could not confirm that - the English, French and
<BR>Spanish newspapers I have tried were more information oriented than
<BR>oriented toward interpreting the events and searching for new
<BR>solutions for the real problems (if you want to do a comparison by
<BR>yourselves you can try the addresses of many Daily Newspapers at <BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><U><A href="http://www.cheetah.net/~beta2/papers.html"
eudora="autourl">http://www.cheetah.net/~beta2/papers.html</A></U></FONT>)
<BR><BR>I would appreciate to have information on what is being written in the
<BR>newspapers of other countries (and continents). Maybe some others <BR>are
also interested or can use that information...<BR><BR>I will not summarize the
articles from foreign authors as I suppose you <BR>can find the same or
similar articles in other newspapers. But there <BR>was also an article from a
Portuguese author that I think it can<BR>be interesting to share with you (the
beginning).<BR><BR>Lourdes Pintassilgo (the author) is a 60-to-70 year old
lady, that is an <BR>important member of the "Catholic Movement for Peace"
(for more than <BR>40 years, I think). She has also been the Portuguese
representative near <BR>UNESCO for many years and for a short period has been
the Portuguese <BR>Prime minister (she is independent of all political
parties). She has also <BR>been a (defeated) candidate for President of the
Portuguese republic. <BR><BR>She wrote: (sorry again for my English
translation -- that I will not even have time <BR>to correct -- if you can
understand Portuguese or use an automatic translator the <BR>article will be
available during one week at: <BR><A
href="http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2001/09/16/Destaque/X01OPI01.html"
eudora="autourl">http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2001/09/16/Destaque/X01OPI01.html</A>)<BR><BR>"Everything
has changed in the world. But that didn't happen on September <BR>11th. The
world had already changed. But only now everybody noticed. All the <BR>years
90 were a very quick process of change from the world we knew to a <BR>new
one.(...)<BR><BR>That big and multiple transformation has been unnoticed for
two reasons. <BR>On one side, we have continued to analyze the problems with
the mental <BR>categories and models of the past. On the other side, attention
has been <BR>concentrated only on the consequences of the fall of communism,
being blind <BR>to a transformation that largely exceeded what has been called
the "economical <BR>and political transition" of the ex-communist countries.
(...)<BR><BR>A sign of that transformation has been clear in all the
rebellions that have <BR>been growing up during the last ten years of the 20th
century. Where we <BR>were used to hear only the categories of development we
began to see<BR>the constant criticism of the globalization in its effects on
new divisions <BR>between peoples and regions. We are many in the world that
wants to find <BR>solutions that minimize those effects and don't allow the
growing marginalization <BR>of persons, peoples and nations. But we have not
found yet the correct way <BR>to make the political leaders of the world
accept the solutions that are <BR>already on the table. We have not been able
to do that on time. But<BR>we have to continue to work hard to understand the
complex causes of <BR>so inhumane acts" (...)<BR><BR>I don't know if I found
Lourdes' article so interesting because it matched <BR>so well with what I
have been thinking these last few days... I would like <BR>to complement her
reflexions with some comments from my own. But I will <BR>delay those comments
not to mix them with Lourdes'
quotations.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Artur<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>