And should we care…?

On the day of Human Rights, should we care about the breaking of some protocol rules by Barack Obama in Oslo, or about the life of Aminatou Haidar, suspended on the thread of our silence and risking to fade under our incapacity to tell our anger to the ears that lead directly to the heads which can decide, to the hands which are able to act quickly?

On the day of Human Rights, should we care about the statement of the general-director of Amnesty International in Portugal, who finds it even possible that sending troops to Afghanistan could be a means for the sake of peace in the region, or about the lack of water in many Palestinian homes, at the same time as Israeli settlers declare themselves openly to be against the freezing of the settlements in East Jerusalem?

What should we really care about, if not the insustainability of too many situations on our planet, much more than our private soul can handle with? Listening to the beautiful song by Clint Eastwood, yet we have a feeling that it means more that the concerns of our private sphere – we are inevitably connected with all the world, let us not only hope for the better. Getting angry against injustice may be a pretty good first step to get energy to act – about how to act, there is no receipt, no formula, no way put the path.

10.12.2009

Teresa Salema