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Emmanuel's Friends
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Happy Influenza :)
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I would like to share some funny pictures I found related to those "INFLUENZA TIMES" we witnessed some months ago...Disfruta :) Me gustaria compartir con ustedes algunas fotos graciosas sobre aquellos "Tiempos Influenzosos" que vivimos algunos meses atrás...enjoy :) 
 1. A new movie is coming out...
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Equidad Género y Sexo / Sex and Gender Equity.
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 Yesterday I had the chance to attend a Sex and Gender Equity Workshop @ Mexico City. At first, I had no idea what to expect, because I was invited by a friend I did not see for a long time, and to be honest, that was my main reason for participating.
Ayer tuvé la oportunidad de ir al taller de Equidad de Sexo y Género en la Ciudad de México. Para ser sincera, no tenia idea de que esperar ya que me invitó una amiga junto a su organización. A mi amiga no la había visto en mucho tiempo, por lo que decidí aventurarme y ver lo que sucedería.
As soon as I arrived, I perceived that there where only 3 guys out of 20 participants. It felt funny, and I thought it might have been a workshop directed to girls. As soon as I stepped in the room, I felt integrated to the group and I knew this was going to be another new adventure I had to share with the world :)
Desde que llegué, me di cuenta de que solamente habían 3 hombres de 20 participantes. Pensé que quizás era un taller dirigido a mujeres. Desde que entré a la habitación, me sentí integrada al grupo y supe que sería una nueva aventura que tendría que compartir con el mundo.
In the main activities, we discussed the differences between sex and gender. We agreed that sex is the biological characteristic of every human being, while gender is a construction, our mentality. Society prefers both of them to match, but sometimes people can be born with a particular sex and an opposite gender.
En las actividades principales, discutimos las diferencias entre sexo y género. Concluimos en que el sexo es una característica biológica de los seres humanos, mientras que el género es una construcción, nuestra mentalidad. La sociedad prefiere que los dos sean concuerden, sin embargo, muchas veces la gente puede tener un sexo y un género diferente.
We had another activity when we discussed about the role of women and men in our society and in our generation. It is really interesting how some of the activities that were only for women (such as cooking, cleaning the house, picking up the children from school) are also for men today. It was important to know that some of the participants have mothers that work fulltime and fathers that do the house work. Roles have changed and the sexist taboo has been broken in a lot of families.
Tuvimos otra actividad en donde discutimos el papel de la muher y el hombre en nuestra sociedad y en neustra generación. Fue muy interesante ver como muchas actividades que antes eran solamente para mujeres (como el cocinar, limpiar la casa, ir por los niños a la escuela) también son para los hombres. Fue importante el saber que muchos de los participantes tienen madres que trabajan tiempo completo y padres que se dedican a las labores caseras. Los papeles han cambiado y el tabú sexista se ha roto en muchas familias mexicanas.
We also discussed about gender empowerment. How women have succeeded, leaving their prejudices behind and standing for their rights. There was a great example about some women from an indigenous community where their husbands left them, following the american dream and going to the US. They had to find a way to survive and they started making marmelades for a big restaurant company in Mexico called Toks. Now, they are the main producers and they found an amazing way to support their kids, without depending on men.
También discutimos el empoderamiento de género. Vimos ejemplos de mujeres que dejaron sus prejuicios atrás y fueron por sus derechos. Hubi un ejemplo perfecto de algunas mujeres indígenas de la comunidad mazahua en donde sus esposos e hijos las dejaron, por seguir el sueño americano y se fueron a los Estados Unidos. Ellas tuvieron que encontrar una forma de sobrevivir y comenzaron a hacer mermeladas, las cuales al final pudieron vender a la franquicia de restaurantes mexicanos Toks. Ahora ellas son las únicas productoras y ellas encontraron una manera maravillosa de mantener a sus hijos, sin depender de los hombres.
I leart a lot from this experience, I shared stories and listened to inspiring ones. It was such delight to discuss with different people, with various points of view. I believe we should support this type of activities and let people learn from each other, as well as discover what is changing in our generation in order to become a better society every day.
Aprendí mucho de esta experiencia, compartí historias y escuche otras bastante inspiradoras. Fue una gran oportunidad el compartir diferentes puntos de vista, con gente con ideas distintas. Creo que debemos apoyar este tipo de actividades y dejar que la gente aprenda una de otra, para asi descubrir que esta cambiando en nuestra generación para asi poder formar parte de una mejor sociedad día a día.
Gracias. Thank you.
Andrea Arzaba
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We Are The World - Michael Jackson
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I would like to share this special video because as all of you might now, we lost a magnificent star some days ago: Michael Jackson.
RIP.
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Waleed from Egypt Echoes President Obama
About this category: Education
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"And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world." -- President Barack Obama speaking at Cairo University
This echoes Waleed's Dream (from Egypt):
Waleed's states:
"There is no doubt that TakingITGlobal is the most important online place. Only TIG can help young leaders all over the world to exchange our ideas and think together about achieving the best. With TIG there is no borders between us - only what we need is to be online to make new friendships between each other and respect one another. I have a dream that I would like to live to see the day that all youth leaders in all over the world from TIG will be the real leaders in their countries. Then we will have all what we need to reach our goals, not only for youth, but for our world and our next generations."
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Voto En BlancO
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VOTO EN BLANCO
Por Andrea Arzaba
Muchos la han calificado como una campaña de gente incoherente y ofensiva que quiere dar un fin a la “democracia” que vivimos de una manera radical, muchos otros se refieren a ella como una polémica nueva en donde el pueblo demuestra sus impresiones ante la inconformidad de sus próximos representantes, de una manera diferente. Pero ¿De que trata la campaña del voto en blanco? Muy simple, a la hora de votar se tacha toda la planilla, cancelando el voto por algún candidato en particular.
Es erróneo pensar que al votar en blanco se apoya a la abstención puesto que al anular el voto aún se sigue participando y existe la obligación de ir a las urnas, pedir una planilla y la única diferencia es que en lugar de elegir a un candidato, se tachan todas las opciones. De ésta manera, los ciudadanos muestran su descontento ante la democracia que se vive en el presente en México, y al mismo tiempo en muchos otros países del mundo.
El voto en blanco incita a las autoridades a cambiar de actitud ya que el pueblo se manifiesta mostrando una inconformidad ante la forma de gobierno existente. De esta manera, se reclama una nación que busca una representación justa, que quiere dejar atrás a las viejas generaciones conformistas y llenas de corrupción. Muchos jóvenes han decidido apoyar ésta nueva propuesta, ya que posiblemente desde este punto podamos comenzar con un nuevo partido político, una esperanza latente para las nuevas generaciones.
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"We are all water:" Reflections on the completion of LIVEH2O
About this category: Media
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LIVEH2O just completed.
In fact, before the global prayer/meditation/concert in 528Hz took place, it seemed more than appropriate to find a way to acknowledge what Dr. Leonard Horowitz has done. This message was the meager attempt to offer some recognition to the contribution he has made:
HELLO from the Hygiene Booth Water Drop!
having received approval by Mama Sarah Obama to be Guest of Honor as we honor the Family of President Barack Obama. This model concert can be repeated any where in the world there is interest, supporting the call for each individual to assume responsibility to help make the world a better place for all.
ABC4All has been doing this for 11-1/2 years.
Yes, the world is becoming a much better place for all, having just received an immense boost via LIVEH2O. The hope is that there will be additional support for recognizing the original call of Yoko Ono:
"Let's report to the Universe how happy we are to be on this planet which is a part of a beautiful constellation. For opposite of love is fear, not hate, opposite of wisdom is confusion, not stupidity, and the shortest distance between two points is our desire and our unwavering belief. So listen to your heartbeat and enjoy. It's worth every minute of it."
Respectfully,
Burton Danet, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, ABC4All
Quick Facts
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The world IS better for all,
LIVEH2O is complete.
JUST WATER - worth the download!
http://abc4all.net
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Día Mundial del Refugiado 2009
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Un mensaje de Ban Ki-moon, Secretario General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas 20 de junio de 2009
 La violencia, la persecución y los conflictos han obligado a abandonar su hogar a millones de personas de todo el mundo. La mayoría de esas personas y familias proceden de países en desarrollo y son también especialmente vulnerables a las graves consecuencias de la crisis económica que se ha desencadenado a nivel mundial.
El tema del Día Mundial de los Refugiados de este año, "Gente real, necesidades reales", pone de relieve cuánto han perdido los refugiados -incluso sus países- y cuánto debe hacer la comunidad de asistencia humanitaria para ayudarlos. Hay carencias en la atención de las necesidades básicas: alojamiento, servicios sanitarios, educación, alimentos, agua no contaminada, saneamiento y protección frente a la violencia y los abusos. Los niveles de malnutrición suelen ser más elevados en la población desplazada, lo mismo que las tasas de mortalidad. Las mujeres solteras y las niñas y adolescentes corren un peligro especial de explotación. La experiencia demuestra que asistir a la escuela reduce el riesgo de ser víctima de tales abusos. Hacen falta más recursos para construir y mantener centros de enseñanza destinados a los refugiados. Hacer frente a esas y muchas otras carencias exige compromiso y acción. La solidaridad debe ser el fundamento de nuestra respuesta. Y ello es especialmente así en un momento en que la crisis económica redunda en detrimento de los presupuestos de asistencia humanitaria y desarrollo.  En este Día Mundial de los Refugiados, aseguremos que las personas desplazadas por los conflictos, la persecución y los desórdenes reciban el apoyo y los servicios que necesitan para construir una vida mejor.
Fuente: http://www.acnur.org
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LIVEH2O is here! JUST WATER (download the slide show!)
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LIVEH2O is here!
PARTICIPATE NOW! Join the global prayer on WATER Sunday!
Learn more at http://ABC4All.net
JUST WATER - CLICK! to download and view!
from From Trey Lawler and the Dept. of Delightful Surprizes!
Licensed Joyologist...
"One who encourages the remarkability and opportunities of creative force."
"In case of enlightenment, Laugh!"
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." --Lewis Carroll
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JUST WATER (download the slide show!)
About this category: Environment
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JUST WATER - CLICK! to download and view!
from From Trey Lawler and the Dept. of Delightful Surprizes!
Licensed Joyologist...
"One who encourages the remarkability and opportunities of creative force."
"In case of enlightenment, Laugh!"
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." --Lewis Carroll
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Breaking News! LIVEH2O 6/19-21/09 - 1 day to go! Read the INSTRUCTIONS
About this category: Media
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From: ABC4All
TIG: http://profiles.tigweb.org/abc4all
WEB: http://ABC4All.net
Date: Jun 17, 2009 12:17 AM
Subject: Breaking News! LIVEH2O 6/19-21/09
Burton Danet, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, A Better Community for All (ABC4All)
ABC4All Global Peace Concerts
http://ABC4All.net/gpcindex.html
P. O. Box 1624 Manhattan Beach, CA 90267-1624 USA
1-310-712-5477 abc4all (at) gmail (dot) com
http://ABC4All.net
LiveH2O and ABC4All Global Peace Concerts Form Global Alliance
Los Angeles, CA, June 17, 2009 - LiveH2O and ABC4All Global Peace Concerts (ABC4AllGPC) have formed a global alliance working together for Peace, Health and Abundance. The joint collaboration creates a unique opportunity to enhance the dynamic effort each brings to the world, reinforcing the respective vision/mission of each grassroots organization.
The alliance unites ABC4All with the LIVEH20 mission: Peace, Health & Abundance http://www.liveh2o.org/ beyond the proposed upcoming venues to be held June 19-21, 2009. The Concert for the Living Water, advanced by activists worldwide, is designed to promote peace, health and plenty of clean water.
LIVE H2O is being hosted in more than a dozen countries simultaneously from Japan to Jerusalem. It is history’s first grassroots organized environmental initiative engaging audiences interactively over the Internet in HD video to raise awareness about the “Universal Solvent.” LIVEH2O.org has created LIVEH2O.tv for people everywhere to participate online.
Everything is possible with LOVE, faith, and people united in prayer! This 72-hour global event is designed to bring humanity back to unity and security in the name of LOVE, by celebrating Water.
There are three ways to participate: 1) Go to the nearest venue; 2) Create your own gathering with friends interacting using LIVEH2O.tv and this "FREE PASS" to the LIVEH2O.tv "Control Room" that links you to streaming video broadcasts from around the world; and 3) Produce your own experience by "surfing" the streaming video, singing, praying, and chanting with multitudes of warm hearts connected online
ABC4All has been developing ABC4All Global Peace Concerts
http://ABC4All.net/gpcindex.html and http://globalabc4all.ning.com with Mama Sarah Obama having given approval for her participation as Special Guest in a Concert proposed to honor the family of President Barack Obama, “YES WE KEN:” http://ABC4All.net/yesweken.htm. This effort is made possible through the ABC4All Global Mentoring TEAM Project with ABC4All Mentors in 104 countries to date: http://projects.tigweb.org/abc4allglobalteam
The global alliance unites the LIVEH20 Mission with the Global Vision/Mission of ABC4All:
To share with all countries a true restoration of a QUIET HOPE for PEACE and HARMONY in the world.
"Maximizing Charitable Contributions on and off the Internet."
ABC4All is blessed and privileged to have access to advanced technologies to help the world via Global Humanitarian Relief. Plans include providing Mama Sarah who sustains herself via agriculture with enhancing technologies described at ABC4All WorldSolutions http://ABC4All.net/worldsolutions.htm
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COUNTDOWN! 1 day to LIVEH2O 06/19-21/09 Prepare! Watch the LIVE FEED! Global Alliance with ABC4All (let feed load)
http://abc4all.net
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Read the instructions? READY? 3 days to pepare! LIVEH2O--Concert for the Living Waters blesses humanity maximally through the Living Water.
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LIVEH2O in 2009 is all about WATER of the world.
http://ABC4All.net and http://liveh2o.org
CLICK! here! for drumming, prayer and chanting with times to participate!
http://www.liveh2o.org/prayer.html
The ABC4All Global Toast is all about WATER and antedates LIVEH2O. The INTENT is the same.
http://ABC4All.net/globaltoast.htm
Have you read the instructions?
http://www.liveh2o.org/instructions/index.htm
LIVEH2O offers a way for diverse people across the globe to come together.
In the words of Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Executive Producer, LIVEH2O:
http://ABC4All.net/pfchorowitz.htm
"LIVEH2O will be broadcasting ... connecting
millions of hearts worldwide over www.LIVEH2O.tv NETWORK
http://www.liveh2o.tv/
carried by LIVESTREAM internationally
http://www.livestream.com/
and EDGE MEDIA
http://www.edgemediatv.com/
locally to more than 1 million viewers in Eastern Europe from the UK alone to MAKE A CHANGE. We estimate there will be as many as 1,000 people at the well for this broadcast..."
Dr. Horowitz is making an opportunity for us all over the world "TO SERVE FOR ONLY 9 MINUTES to UNITE...AUDIENCES across the world in a PRAYERFUL CHANT (IN 528HZ) bringing the MOST "CONSCIOUS" LOVING BEINGS ON EARTH
TOGETHER, VIA OUR BROADCASTING SYSTEMS, AT PRECISELY 6PM, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 21, TILL 6:09PM FOR THE "LOVE WATER EXPERIMENT."
Dr. Horowitz supports WaterAid and hydration, sanitation, and health initiatives globally.
He states, "I work with many of the world's leading
Water Science experts. In fact, on the 18th of June I am scheduled to present the LIVEH2O Humanitarian Science award to my friend and colleague Dr. Masaru Emoto at Long Beach where we will be desalinating, purifying, energizing, and dispensing sea Water to thousands of concert goers to demonstrate current capabilities that include eliminating all infectious disease from earth simply with energized mineral Waters."
So LIVEH2O ... "blesses humanity maximally through the Living Water."
Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Executive Producer,
LIVEH2O--Concert for the Living Waters!
http://www.liveh2o.org/
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COUNTDOWN! 3 days to LIVEH2O 06/19-21/09 Prepare! Watch the LIVE FEED!
Global Alliance with ABC4All (let feed load)
http://abc4all.net
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ZANA MUHSEN
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LAS HIJAS PERDIDAS DE INGLATERRA
Por Andrea Arzaba
You will find the english version of this article bellow.
Hoy me gustaría escribir un poco acerca de un libro que he leido entre ayer y hoy, ya que desde que lo comencé a leer, no lo pude soltar hasta el final.
El libro se llama VENDIDAS -escrito por Zana Muhsen- y nos habla de la historia de dos hermanas, Zana y Nadia, de padre yemenita y madre inglesa, quienes viven en Birmingham hasta los 15 y 14 años respectivamente ya que son vendidas por su padre y enviadas a Yemen, en donde se enfrentan con una vida de abusos, maltratos, violaciones y sufrimiento. Cuando Zana y Nadia emprenden el viaje, ellas tenían la idea de que se trataba simplemente de unas vacaciones en el país de su padre, sin embargo, todo fue una trampa ya que todo se encontraba arreglado. Ambas adolescentes son obligadas a guardar silencio, a obedecer a sus "maridos", a sus suegros y a continuar con una vida totalmente diferente a la que conocian, en un pueblo rural muy tradicionalista, en donde la voz de la mujer queda opacada junto a la sombra del hombre.
Es muy explícito el odio que siente Zana por los maltratos que ella y su hermana sufren, incluso los hijos que son obligadas a tener, las malas palabras que deben soportar, los golpes y la vida de sumisión a las que se encuentran expuestas sin remedio alguno.
Durante años, la esperanza de regresar a Inglaterra se va desvaneciendo poco a poco, hasta que Zana logra ponerse en contacto con su madre por medio de una carta. Es así como la esperanza regresa a sus corazones y después de ocho largos años de espera, Zana puede abandonar a su esposo gracias a la presión de los medios de comunicación, de la diplomacia y de su madre. Sin embargo, su hijo Marcus se queda en Yemen con su hermana Nadia, ya que les permiten salir solas, sin sus hijos. Zana acepta irse sin su hermana prometiendo regresar por ella de alguna otra forma. Esa fue la última vez que la vio.
Tengo entendido que Zana vive en Birmingham y ha tenido una nueva famlia, sin embargo Nadia y Marcus siguen en Yemen. Existe una continuación del libro llamada: UNA PROMESA A NADIA. Es bastante triste el seguir siendo testigos de tantas atrocidades que ocurren en nuestra llamada sociedad moderna, debemos de crear una conciencia para terminar con las violaciones de los derechos humanos y exigir nuestra libertad como ciudadanos del mundo.
ENGLAND'S LOST DAUGHTERS
By Andrea Arzaba
 Today I would like to write about a book I read between yesterday and today, because since I started reading it I could not stop until I was done with it.
The book is called SOLD - and it was written by Zana Muhsen- it tells the story of two sisters, Zana and Nadia who live in Birmingham up to 15 and 14 years respectively since they are sold by their father and sent to Yemen, where they face a life of abuses, mistreatments, violations and suffering. Their mother was from England and their dad was from Yemen. Zana and Nadia where fooled because they thought they were going on vacations to discover their dad's homeland, but everything was arranged by their father in order to start a new life as yemeni wives. Both teenagers are forcer to remain silent, to obey their new "Husbands" and "In Laws" and to continue with a life that was very different from the one they had back in England, in a yemeni rural and traditional town, where women's voices remain under men's shadows.
In the book it is very explicit the hate that Zana keeps because of the suffering she and her sister have to stand, even the children they are forced to have, the bad words and insults they have to put up with, the mistreatment and sumision they live every single day for years.
Coming back to England was some hope that kept on fading away little by little, until one day Zana gets in touch wit her mother by mail. Hope comes back into Nadia and Zana's heart and after 8 long waiting years Zana is able to leave her husband, thanks to media's pressure, diplomacy and her mother. Nevertheless her son, Marcus, stays in Yemen with Nadia, because both women are alowed to leave the country without their sons and daughters. Zana accepts to leave, promissing she will come back for Nadia and the children. That was the last time she saw her.
I have read that Zana lives in Birmingham and has brought up a new family, but Nadia and Marcus are still in Yemen. There is a second part of the book called A PROMISE TO NADIA. It is very sad that we keep on being witnesses of this type of atrocities that remain existing in our so called modern society.We need to raise awareness and create a conciousness in order to erradicate Human Rights Violations. We need to demand pour freedom as citizens of the world.
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