Year's-turn thoughts


Posted by Helena Cobban
December 31, 2005 4:58 PM EST | Link
Filed in Global affairs

I guess some JWN readers have already entered 2006, and the rest of us are being pulled along to midnight behind you as this heavy old planet of ours continues to spin its way through the ether. What a precious home we all have here on Mother Earth. May we look after her better in 2006: work on cutting back the greenhouse gases; stop producing and dumping toxic chemicals; gain a deeper understanding of our interdependency as humans and with all of creation.

May humanity be protected and start to flourish anew in 2006. I mean "humanity" in two senses: both our sense of all women and men being, at root, one connected family, and our sense of the decent respect that we owe each and every person on the globe.

I don't see any way for humanity in those two senses to flourish without a deep recommitment to the concept and practice of human equality. We can't reach that in 2006... reaching it will truly be the work of one or more generations. But we can continue working towards it.

Happy New Year to JWN readers, to all of humanity, and to the ideal of humanity itself!



Comments
Comment from... salah, at January 1, 2006 11:29 PM:

سيدي الرئيس المحرر...
بشراك وهنيئا لك قدرتك علي تحريك لسانك بعكس ما كنت قد أضمرته لنا في قلبك وعقلك وأجندتك، فنحن سائرون ولا شك إلي نفق مظلم مدلهم نهايته التشرذم والتقسيم والتفتت إلي أقاليم ضعيفة هشة يسهل ابتلاعها بفضل بذرة الشقاق التي قام بزرعها رجلك الأمين (بريمر) في أرضنا، وها هو الشعب الطيب قد اندفع للمشاركة الطوعية في الانتخابات النيابية متوهما أن الخلاص مما هو فيه يقبع خلف (تلة) الانتخابات فإذا به يجد نفسه في قلب صحراء (التيه) الذي ضاع فيه طيلة أربعين عاما (قوم) تعرفهم وتعزهم حيث مات خلال التيه منهم جيل وظهر جيل لتأكلهم الحسرة والألم علي ما فعلوا واقترفوا.

http://www.azzaman.com/azzaman/http/display.asp?fname=/azzaman/articles/2005/12/12-30/879.htm

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