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EL MANIFIESTO

Versiones originales y traducciones en:
Ultima LLamada - El Manifiesto

English Version below:

The Manifesto (English)

(en español)(em português)(en galego)(en català)

«Last Call»

This is more than an economic and political crisis: it’s a crisis of civilization.

For the most part, European citizens believe the idea that consumer society can “progress” into the future (and that it should). Meanwhile, a good part of the inhabitants of the planet hope to achieve our level of material comfort. However, we have succeeded in achieving this level of production and consumption at the cost of exhausting natural resources and energy sources, and disrupting the equilibrium of Earth’s ecosystems.

None of this is new. The most lucid researchers and scientists have warned us since the 1970′s: to continue with the current trends of growth (economic, demographic, in the use of resources, generation of pollutants and increase in inequality) the most probably result for the 21st century would be the collapse of civilization.

Today the news has accumulated that indicates that the path of unrestricted growth is already a genocide in slow motion. The end of cheap energy, the catastrophic scenarios of climate change and the geopolitical tensions over resources show us that the paradigm of progress of the past is bankrupt.

Before this challenge, the superficial mantras of sustainable development are not enough, nor are the bets on eco-efficient technologies, nor a supposed “green economy” that covers up the general commercialization of natural goods and the services of the ecosystem. Technological solutions, with so many environmental crises like the decline in energy production, are insufficient. In addition, the ecological crisis is not a topic that can be separated from all aspects of society: food, transportation, industry, urbanization, military conflicts… It concerns the base of our economy and our lives.

We are trapped in the perverse dynamic of a civilization that will not function if it does not grow, and if it grows will destroy the resource base that makes it possible. Our technocratic and commercial culture forgets that we, at the roots, are dependent on the interdependent ecosystems.

The producer and consumer society cannot be sustained by the planet. We need to construct a new civilization capable of securing a dignified life for an enormous (today more than 7.2 million), constantly growing human population that inhabits a world of diminishing resources. There need to be radical changes in the modes of life, forms of production, design of cities, and organization of territories. We need a society that aims to recover equilibrium with the biosphere, using research, technology, culture, economy, and politics to advance towards this end. For this, we will need all the political imagination, moral generosity, and technical creativity that can be deployed.

But this Great Transformation will confront two titanic obstacles: the inertia of capitalist life and the interests of privileged groups. To avoid the chaos and barbarity that up until today we are being directed towards, we will need a profound political rupture with the current hegemony, and an economy whose ends are the satisfaction of social needs within limits imposed by the biosphere, and not the accumulation of private profit.

Fortunately, more people are resisting the attempts of elites to make them pay for the consequences of crisis. Today, in the Spanish state, the awakening of dignity and democracy that created 15M (in the spring of 2011) is creating a constitutional process that opens possibilities for other forms of social organization.

However, it is fundamental that alternative projects aware of the implications of the limits to growth design much bolder proposals for change. The economic crisis and the crisis of regimes can only be overcome at the same time as the ecological crisis. In this sense, it is not enough to return to policies of Keynesian capitalism. These policies led us, in the decades following the second world war, to a cycle of expansion that brought us to threshold of exceeding the planet’s limits. A new cycle of expansion is unfeasible: there is no material basis, nor ecological space and natural resources that could sustain it.

The 21st century will be a decisive century in the history of humanity. It will be a great test for all cultures and societies, and for the species in their vicinity. A test that will resolve our continuity on the Earth and the possibility of calling “humanity” to the life that will be organized after. We will face a transformation analogous to major historical events such as the neolithic revolution and the industrial revolution.

Attention: The window of opportunity is closing. It is certain that there are many movements of resistance around the world pursuing environmental justice (the organization Global Witness has registered almost a thousand murdered environmentalists in the last ten years, who died in struggles against mining or oil projects, or defending their land and water). But we have at most five years to settle a broad debate on the limits of growth, and to construct democratic ecological and energy alternatives that are both rigorous and feasible solutions. We should be able to win large majorities in the struggle to change economic, energetic, social, and cultural models. Besides fighting injustices arising from the exercise of domination and the accumulation of wealth, we speak about a model that acknowledges realities, makes peace with nature, and makes possible the good life within the ecological limits of the earth.

One civilization is ending and we must build a new one. The consequences of doing nothing or too little will lead us directly to social, economic, and ecological collapse. But if we start today, we can still be the protagonists of a society that is caring, democratic, and at peace with the planet.

— Written in various parts of the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic and Canary Islands, in the summer of 2014.

LA VIOLENCIA - VIOLENCE

(English version below spanish text)

Entra a enlace original para texto completo y enlace adicional al texto de referencia:
La violencia por Juan Carlos Torres

Extracto:

"Quienes hayan leído desde hace tiempo mi web saben que siempre pongo especial énfasis en subrayar que no hay avance posible en el progreso humano si nuestra actividad no va de la mano de la paz. Hoy leo un texto en el blog de Pedro Olalla, un amigo que vive en Grecia el sufrimiento impuesto criminalmente a todo un pueblo, y me gustaría recomendar su lectura. Empieza diciendo “Hoy día, mientras en las calles arden contenedores y en los parlamentos arden conquistas democráticas, lo políticamente correcto es condenar la violencia”, y termina con estos dos párrafos:

“La Violencia, en su sentido original y etimológico, es una fuerza vital, un ímpetu: la fuerza que sustenta una idea, un argumento, un acto, un cuerpo, un estado, incluso una virtud. Violencia (Βία) era en la antigua Grecia una divinidad primigenia, que en las laderas del Acrocorinto compartía santuario con Ananke, la Necesidad; “conciliando violencia y justicia” (“βίαν τε και δίκην συναρμόσας”) forjó Solón las leyes de la Democracia; y no olvidemos nunca que, en el fondo, la Justicia no es sino una violencia que trata de imponerse sobre el abuso y la desigualdad, una violencia que hay que hacerse a uno mismo para obrar conforme a la verdad y dando a cada cual lo que merece.
Es el uso de la fuerza, y no la fuerza misma, lo que la ética debe juzgar. Condenar la violencia siempre parecerá “políticamente correcto”, pero mucho cuidado con la demagogia”. 

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nota: enlace al texto de referencia en enlace al original al principio de esta entrada

 ENGLISH VERSION FOLLOWS:

Who have read for some time my website know that I always put special emphasis to underline that there is no

EL RESCATE A ESPAÑA - DIE SPANIEN RETTUNG - EXPLICADO AL CIUDADANO ALEMÁN

El rescate de España explicado al ciudadano alemán.

S_Painish Rap

Aquí están. Son el Futuro. Enhorabuena y gracias.

Firma aquí en Change.Org: Petición a la Ciudadanía, sacad todas las banderas al balcón con crespones negros

S_Painish Flag

 



S_Painish Flag

(By my friend C.Romo)
Galería de C.Romo en Flickr

Recogida de firmas dirigida por y para toda la Ciudadanía: saquen sus banderas con crespones negros

Firma por Sacad las banderas al balcón con crespones negros

DE LUTO POR LA DEMOCRACIA - MOURNING FOR DEMOCRACY

Recogida de firmas dirigida por y para toda la Ciudadanía: saquen sus banderas con crespones negros

Firma apoyo, Sacad las banderas con crespones negros.

Sacad las banderas, sábanas, banderolas, banderines y estandartes al balcón... con crespones negros.
Inundad las calles de la ciudad o pueblo con vuestros colores favoritos... con crespones negros.
Como un silencioso y pacífico rugido social de disgusto, asco y protesta , que se eleve por encima de los muros, que nos una...
Porque esta Democracia ya no lo es, y porque lograremos que lo vuelva a ser, antes de que nos la roben, si tan sólo actuáramos como un PUEBLO Soberano, de nuevo.
¡¡PROTESTA!!
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Bring out the flags, sheets, banners and standards to the balcony ... flags, blankets, rags and banners to the balcony ... wearing black ribbons.
Flood the streets of your city or your town with your

ESPAÑOLES, RAJOY HA MUERTO. NÚMERO DE FEBRERO DE MONGOLIA

Firma aquí petición a la Ciudadanía: Saquen las banderas con crespones negros

CLAMOR POPULAR: ¡IROS YA POLÍTICOS CORRUPTOS SIN VERGUENZA! + PEOPLE OUTCRY: GO AWAY SHAMELESS CORRUPT POLITICIANS

Change.org. Firma aquí: Petición a la Ciudadanía, sacad vuestras banderas -todas las banderas- al balcón con crespones negros

From the original pic ´S_Pain by C.Romo. See This and other good ones through Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-cromo-/
and
My favourites Pics

Don Tancredo Rajoy. Registrando que es lo suyo - Don Tancredo Rajoy. Recording which is his own and his Specialty

"No me temblará el pulso" "Viva el vino" "Vaya tropa" "Eran ...como hilillos de plastilina..." " España a impuesto sus condiciones a la UE"
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"My pulse won´t tremble" "Viva the Wine" "What a Troop" "Were... alike plasticine threads..." "Spain got to impose its conditions to the EU."

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Kingdom of ´S-Pain Mr. Mariano Rajoy!

 

Enlace superior al titular de EL PAIS: “Señor Rajoy, ¿hubo sobresueldos en el PP?” “Sí, hombre”, ironiza el presidente.

Link above to EL PAIS headline reading: "Mr. Rajoy, was there in the PP hidden bonuses?" "Yeah... man... 'says the President ironically.

 

 aka known as DonTancredo (english wiki version) Rajoy

tambien conocido como DonTancredo (versión Wiki español) Rajoy

 

 

Anotaba meticulosamente los sucesos en tiempo y forma, según acaecían, con la minuciosidad y ahínco del joven opositor a Registrador de la Propiedad que en su día fue.

El Ex-Tesorero Oficial del Partido y su Despacho Oficioso (y por fín llegó la mudanza)- The Ex-Official-Treasurer of the Big Party and its informal Unofficial - office (Last day, moving at last!)

Con pesadumbre y preocupación, el fiel tesorero de cualquier gran partido español, comenzó a empaquetar y clasificar sus archivos y papeles; al cabo de varios años la gran tarea estaba casi culminada, se despedía ya emocionado de su chófer, cuando su secretaria fué encontrada muerta por afixia bajo una montaña de papel triturado.

"Las mudanzas y cambios son largas, arduas y penosas" -declaró el fiel tesorero- mientras que al tiempo envió un gran sobre a los parientes más cercanos de su secretaria, añadiendo unas pocas palabras de consuelo de su propia mano

El ex Tesorero del Partido Anticorrupción -Bárcenas- mantiene coche oficial, despacho y secretaria en la sede del PP

With sorrow and concern, the faithful treasurer of any great Spanish party, began

CLEPTOCRACIA + KLEPTOCRACY + CLEPTOLAND

Ladies and Gentlemen... The Never Elected President of the ´Comunidad de Madrid´Mr. Ignacio Gonzalez !

THE NEVER ELECTED ONE

"LLegaron en manadas, y acudieron en tropel.

Surgieron por millares de cada rincón de la Piel de Toro; portaban largas mangueras y tuberías -por las que se inyectaron grandes cantidades de un nuevo remedio llamado Euro

Save Iberia (Peninsula as well)

Ingenieria Capitalista en nuestra Cleptocracia. ¡Salvemos Iberia! (Y la Península también)
Capitalist engineering within our Kleptocracy. ¡Save Iberia! (And the Peninsula as well)

Hoy no he pagado el euro por receta

Hoy no he pagado el euro por receta

Hoy no he pagado en Madrid el euro por receta; y me siento un poco más libre y más ciudadano. En Madrid hemos perdido la esperanza y la gallardía, por permitir la huída hacia intereses personales -dentro o fuera de la política, o ambas a la vez- de la ciudadana Aguirre y del ciudadano Gallardón.