The two leading Brexiteers gave keynote speeches at an exclusive Mines & Money conference in London last week – as communities whose livelihoods, health and environments are being destroyed, protested outside.
This essay is an English adaptation of the main part of the author’s “discourse of acceptance” for the Hannah-Arendt Prize in Political Thought 2017, awarded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the City of Bremen (Germany), on December 1, 2017.
“Because often when it comes to politics, I am sort of a leader. But here I was a follower: and it was a good experience.” An interview on thoughts arising from Team Syntegrity 2017.
Since January 2015, the war opposing criminal gangs and the State has resulted in 15.000 dead. Attempts at truce have been unsuccessful. Fear has taken over the country. Español
La guerra entre las pandillas y el Estado se ha cobrado 15.000 muertos desde enero de 2015. Los intentos de tregua han sido infructuosos. El miedo se ha apoderado del país. English
من الصعب الوصول إلى تحوّل أو انتقال ديمقراطي سلمي سلس بدون إشراك مختلف الفعاليات المناهضة للاستبداد، بمختلف مرجعياتها الأيديولوجية من اجل اسقاط الاستبداد و بناء الديمقراطية.
“I left Afghanistan because I didn’t want to kill for the Taliban... I could not do that, but European life is very dangerous too: I never thought it would be like this.”
When the militarized interests of the nation trump the rights of citizens to challenge the actions of our government towards vulnerable ‘Others’, we are moving in a Nazi direction.
" The problem is not populism. The problem is when mainstream parties adopt the ideology of populism." A report-back from the World Forum for Democracy 2017 closing session.
Onde a participação social depende de governos, a sociedade civil não pode fazer muito para salvar a democracia dos males das eleições e dos partidos. Español English
