Un fin de semana con Matis...

Este fin de semana Cathe, Boris y Matis vinieron a BXL a visitarme... Matis es el sobrino mas hermoso, coqueto y buenhumorado que tengo!!! La sorpresa fue la Adri que se vino con Hugo!!! Increible pasar tan buenos momentos con ustedes chicos... solo faltaba el Berna!

Es dificil tenerlas tan lejos, pero lo bueno es saber que por mas que estemos lejos, nada cambia (me pongo feeling). Cathe, te quiero mucho... gracias por decirme siempre las palabras justas y por siempre estar alli. :)

My new baby

Farewell dinner with my (ex)colleagues

Last Tuesday...

Flo with my present!

Slow motion feelings

Ver esta pelicula mil y una veces mas...

il mio ultimo giorno

Sono uscita alle 11 di sera... un po' triste... mi manchera' la mia scrivania, i miei compagni... (foto presa dalla Lagana')

The European Parliament: End blockade of Gaza!

By Luisa Morgantini

Press Release, posted by AIC and ISM

October 12th, 2007

http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/european-parliament-calls-for-lift-of-blockade-in-gaza-and-free-movement-in-palestinian-territories-20071011.html

Brussels 11th October 2007,

In a resolution voted today in the Parliament, MEPs, called on Israeli Government for the lifting of the blockade of the Gaza Strip and to fulfill its international obligations under the Geneva Conventions to guarantee the flow of humanitarian aid, humanitarian assistance and essential services, such as electricity and fuel. Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, who was in the Parliamentary delegation in Gaza Strip, on her speech stressed the need to lift the embargo on people and goods and the end of the military occupation.

“I was recently in Gaza- Luisa Morgantini declared- and I saw how the Strip is suffocating in a serious humanitarian crisis due to the raids and the closure imposed by the Israeli Army: massive devastation of public facilities and private homes, the disruption of hospitals, clinics and schools, the denial of access to proper drinking water, food and electricity, and the destruction of agricultural land wanted by Israel create a true catastrophe for civilians. Furthermore, the blockade on the movement paralyzes the economy and contributes to an extremely high rate of unemployment, while the health system is under severe pressure, a significant proportion of the population is suffering from a lack of urgently needed treatment and medicines and many NGOs and humanitarian organisations are obstructed by the lack of freedom of movement and of resources.

European Union has to demand with force to the Israeli Government that human rights and International law must be fully respected in the whole area, ending the continued emergency of Gaza Strip but also the military occupation in West Bank, where the robbery of Palestinian lands continues without any condemnation and, in spite of the meeting between Olmert and Abbas, the Israelis change the situation on the ground which casts serious doubts if they want peace or just gaining time to grab more land: it is an example the recent decision by the IDF to expropriate 272 acres of land from four Arab villages in order to build, as declared by Israeli Authorities, a new Palestinian road that would connect East Jerusalem with Jericho. But this decision would free up the existing E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adunim, allowing the construction of a new Jewish settlement consisting of 3,500 apartments and an industrial park, blocked by an international protest since 2004, that showed the risk of the cutting of the West Bank in two, separating East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. This unilateral and illegal policy by Israeli Authorities must immediately end."

EU must to face up to its full responsibility on the respect of the legality, first through implementation of the existent EU-Israel Agreements on Movement and Access, but also imposing Israel to respect the International law concerning human rights, to end the military occupation in West Bank and the closure of the Gaza Strip and of the WB: even if there is an humanitarian tragedy, its solution is political.

This is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace and to give more credibility to the International Peace Conference in November, reinforcing the negotiations based on the UN resolutions and on the right of Palestinians and Israelis to live in two States, in peace and security”.

LUISA MORGANTINI is Vice President of The European Parliament (GUE/NGL)

Empty city

Jakarta's Jalan Sudirman, which is usually so crowded, looks desolate today. Many Jakarta residents have returned to their hometowns for the Idul Fitri holiday.

Premio IGNOBEL

Ha sentito l'ultima? Il premio Nobel per la Pace è stato conferito ad Al Gore!!!!! Tutto ciò è inaudito! Evviva il catastrofismo e il trionfo della politica delle immagini! Ma come si fa ad attribuire un premio di quel valore ad un uomo che sostiene una tesi che nella comunità scientifica è sottoposta a continui studi empirici e a verifiche costanti. Nessuno mette in dubbio che la pressione antropica dell'uomo abbia degli effetti negativi sull'ambiente, ma premiare l'estremismo significa non voler comprendere il problema e non volere trovare le giuste soluzioni. Il comitato norvegese, preposto all'attribuzione del Nobel per la Pace, conferma per l'ennesima volta di non avere alcuna conoscenza del metodo scientifico galileiano che si compone, come lei ben sa, di due aspetti: sensata esperienza e necessaria dimostrazione. Con oggi, purtroppo, c'è il trionfo del dogmatismo scientifico che appare ancora più grave e pericoloso del dogmatismo religioso medievale! Si conferma nuovamente che i premi Nobel per la Pace e la Letteratura non vengono assegnati sulla base di reali meriti artistici, sociali o umanitari, ma rappresentano esclusivamente dei veri e propri strumenti politici atti a condizionare l'opinione pubblica internazionale. Perchè non assegnare il premio Nobel per la Pace ai veri sostenitori della democrazia incarcerati nei tanti paesi islamici, orientali (penso ai monaci del Myanmar) e africani che pur di portare avanti i loro ideali di libertà e democrazia mettono a repentaglio le poche libertà personali di cui godono a costo della vita?

Boycott the Jericho-Tel Aviv events on Oct 18th

On October 18th, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and international figures with the support of some Palestinians, is organizing a public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event will include performances by renowned artists Brian Adams and Ilham Madfa'i. As stated on the organization's English webpage, the objective of the event is to “mark the first time that massive numbers of Israelis and Palestinians gather simultaneously to unite against violent extremism.”

According to the widely accepted boycott criteria advocated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the event falls under the category of normalization projects and violates the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), endorsed by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions, political parties, and grassroots movements, for the following reasons: Participants are required to join the One Voice Movement and sign a mandate -- ostensibly based on a "two-state solution," but without any commitment to international parameters -- which assumes equal responsibility of "both sides" for the "conflict," and suspiciously fails to call for Israel's full compliance with its obligations under international law through ending its illegal military occupation, its denial of Palestinian refugee rights (particularly the right of return), and its system of racial discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens.

The event is sponsored by Israeli institutions (mostly from the private sector) and endorsed by mainstream Israeli political figures from parties including the Likud and Shas. These Israeli "partners" are unquestionably complicit in maintaining Israel 's occupation and other forms of oppression.

We believe this event is being organized to promote a "peace" agreement that is devoid of the minimal requirements of justice, and that will leave the Palestinian people as disenfranchised as previous agreements have. The unfortunate and harmful support of Palestinian businessmen, religious and political figures, among others, for this event indicates either ignorance of the hidden agenda inherent in the whole initiative, deceptively camouflaged as a collective call for peace, or willingness to forfeit the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in return for advancing selfish interests.

We call on the Palestinian public and international supporters of a just peace in Palestine not to take part in this public relations charade that conceals a misleading political program that falls significantly short of international law tenets and the Palestinian national program. We call on Arab and Palestinian artists, in particular, not to participate in this or any similar event whose real objectives have nothing to do with genuine peace. We call on Palestinian board members of the One Million Voices to withdraw their support for this movement that only serves to blind the Palestinian public and sidetrack it from struggling, with the solidarity of its international supporters, for its UN-sanctioned rights, for justice, equality and freedom.

Tutti i diritti umani per tutti

Alla vigilia del 60° anniversario della Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani ho partecipato a Perugia il 5 e il 6 ottobre 2007 alla 7a Assemblea dell’Onu dei Popoli, un grande incontro della società civile mondiale impegnata contro la povertà e la guerra per la globalizzazione dei diritti umani, della giustizia, della democrazia e della solidarietà.

La 7a Assemblea dell’Onu dei Popoli è stata intitolata “Tutti i diritti umani per tutti”. Centinaia di persone provenienti da tutto il mondo (esponenti laici e religiosi di movimenti, sindacati, organizzazioni e network nazionali e internazionali, giornalisti, enti locali, forze politiche, università e centri di ricerca) si sono incontrati per mettere a punto e promuovere l’agenda politica dei diritti umani.

I diritti umani non sono “valori” altissimi da contemplare. Essi sono il nome dei bisogni umani vitali, materiali e spirituali e come tali costituiscono un insieme di “obiettivi” concreti che devono guidare la politica a tutti i livelli, dalla politica locale a quella internazionale, dalle nostre città fino all’Onu. I diritti umani costituiscono il nucleo centrale della legalità in un mondo alla ricerca affannosa di governabilità umanamente sostenibile. La legittimazione dell'agire delle classi governanti si gioca sul terreno della loro coerenza con il paradigma dei diritti umani. Essi sono pertanto la bussola legale, politica, morale per fronteggiare la grande crisi planetaria che colpisce centinaia di milioni di persone e minaccia la sopravvivenza dell’intera umanità.

I diritti umani sono i diritti civili, politici, economici, sociali, culturali, i diritti alla pace, all'ambiente, allo sviluppo umano, alle pari opportunità da realizzare nel rispetto del principio della loro interdipendenza e indivisibilità. Lo stato sociale è indissociabile dallo stato di diritto. La democrazia sociale ed economica è indissociabile dalla democrazia politica.

O fim do jejum

Motociclistas fazem fila para embarcar no porto do Gilimanuk, em Bali, na Indonésia. Milhões de indonésios muçulmanos deslocam-se para as suas casas para celebrar os festejos de Eid al-Fitr, que marcam o fim do jejum do Ramadão. Foto: Murdani Usman/Reuters

Jerusalem

The Guardian
9 October 2007

A senior Israeli cabinet minister said yesterday that Israel may be willing to divide Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of a future peace agreement.

Haim Ramon said Jewish districts of Jerusalem should remain Israeli while Arab areas could be transferred to the Palestinian Authority. "Wouldn’t it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the western world and the international community to recognise [Israel’s] annexation of .... [Jewish] neighbourhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighbourhoods?" he told Israel Radio.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are expected to meet at a peace conference next month in Annapolis, Maryland, but a peace deal is not believed to be close.

Mr Ramon, the vice-prime minister, said decisions over the sovereignty of holy sites of Jerusalem such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Haram al-Sharif and the Western Wall would be more complicated. "We need to say there will be a special regime in the ’holy basin’, which we will talk about in the future," he said.

Many Israelis insist that Jerusalem should never be shared, even though almost half its population is Palestinian. It is often referred to as the "indivisible" capital of the Jewish people. Israel took control of West Jerusalem in 1948 and conquered East Jerusalem in 1967. Since then Israel has built huge housing estates on the occupied territory, mixing Jewish and Arab areas. Palestinians insist that all of East Jerusalem, including the Old City, should form part of a Palestinian state and that all Jewish settlements are illegal under international law. The former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak proposed dividing Jerusalem in 2000 but failed to reach an agreement with Yasser Arafat.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, told the Knesset yesterday that he intended to spend the next year working on a peace deal with the Palestinians.

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk

Caetano Veloso em Bruxelas

Concierto maravilloso el miercoles pasado en l'Ancienne Belgique... CAETANO ERES LO MAXIMO!!!!

LUCA PRODAN - Entrevista 1

Una entrevista muy interesante de Luca Prodan, cantante de Sumo. Estan en 4 partes, esta es la primera.

Missing Indonesia

dewa - separuh nafasku