Freitag, 24. Dezember 2010

Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010

Herbergssuche

Die abendländisch-christliche Leitkultur gründet sich weniger auf jenen Jesus selber, der in den jetzigen Feiertagen geehrt werden soll - sondern darauf, was ihm damals, an seiner Geburt mitsamt seinen Eltern angetan wurde: Auf die Herzlosigkeit, Arroganz und Herablassung ist eben Verlass.

Worauf kein Verlass war und ist: Dass Politiker tatsächlich irgend etwas wohlüberlegt angehen und gebacken bekommen, bevor sämtliche Kinder der Nation in den vorher vergifteten Brunnen gefallen sind. Das zeigte sich in Bezug auf die Globalisierung, und das zeigt sich nun im Zusammenhang mit den Abkommen die aus der EU resultieren.

Frankreich und Deutschland wollen nicht, dass Rumänien dem Schengen-Raum beitritt. Als Begründung müssen Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität herhalten. Das mag alles bedenklich sein, aber es gibt einen Grund, über den die Regierungen Sarkozy und Merkel nie offen reden werden: Die Sinti und Roma - die sogenannten Zigeuner - das Wort wird ja wieder benutzt. Gerade hat man sie ausgeschafft, und schafft sie aus - in die anderen Länder aus denen sie geflohen waren - da kann nicht zugelassen werden, dass schon wieder welche einreisen dürfen, und das womöglich noch legal und ohne Flucht.

Die rumänische Regierung hat recht, wenn sie wegen Diskriminierung protestiert, allerdings hat diese Diskriminierung eine Bandbreite, an die von den meisten Menschen nicht gedacht wird, weil sie vertuscht und verschwiegen wird. Es ist die alte Geschichte der Menschen-Ausgrenzung, des Wegwerfens und Abtuns normalen Umgangs. Was ist schon normaler Umgang in der Politik?

Immerhin hatten wir einige Jahre, in denen angenommen werden konnte, dass wir es immerhin allmählich draufschaffen, was Demokratie ist, bedeutet, und sein kann. Leider wurde die Chance samt gemachtem Anfang wieder vertan. Mit Absicht, denke ich - denn die Bimbespolitik will nicht von ihren Pfründen und Lieblingen lassen.

Die Christen schotten sich ab, genau wie damals die Besitzenden auch schon.

http://www.faz.net/s/RubDDBDABB9457A437BAA85A49C26FB23A0/Doc~ED392E9B0883B42A4BCFE96214B5096FB~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html


Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2010

"We’re gonna stand up and we’re gonna fight back"... --- and yeah, tomorrow it will be forgotten...

http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2010/12/14/we%E2%80%99re-gonna-stand-up-and-we%E2%80%99re-gonna-fight-back/


“We’re gonna stand up and we’re gonna fight back.”

Respekt. Die beste Rede, die ich seit Jahren gehört habe.




Falls irgendwer gelegentlich dem Impuls zu verfallen droht, die jungen Leute heute wären nicht mehr so wie.. [bitte einsetzen.] – das hat sich hoffentlich nach diesen 5 Minuten erledigt. Großartig.
Anlass übrigens waren die SchülerInnen- und StudentInnen-Demos in Großbritannien gegen die Verdreifachung der Studiengebühren.

Well, I might be in detention a week and the school might not be very happy but we sure showed something much bigger last Wednesday. K, sorry. You know, this was meant to be the first post-ideological generation, right? This was meant to be the generation that never thought of anything bigger than our Facebook profiles and our TV screens. This was meant to be the generation where the only thing that Saturday night meant was X-Factor.
I think now that claim is quite ridiculous. I think now that claim is quite repulsive. Now we’ve shown that we are an ideological as ever before. Now we’ve shown that solidarity and comradeship and all those things that used to be associated with students are as relevant now as they’ve ever been.
You know, the most incredible thing that happened on Wednesday — I went down, I thought I was gonna go down on lunch break and then get back in time for lessons. Perhaps I should have known they’d put the guy in charge of the G20 in charge. Perhaps I should have been more concerned for my life than whether I was gonna get down for lessons, but, ah, but when tried to get out and I was told it was a sterile? area by police officers standing and not letting anyone out, I thought well that’s why we need a university education. If we don’t get one we end up in police uniforms.
You know, when I was kettled in there I was with thousands and thousands of school students who’d come down with their ties around their heads and their school uniforms and yeah they were cold, who’d come down, who’d never been on a protest before, who’d never joined a political party or been involved in a political movement before, Who didn’t have any economic knowledge or political degree. But they were there because they believed in something. They were there because they believed in something bigger and they were there because they knew that either — you know there weren’t a million choices, there were two choices — either they laid down and took whatever the government threw at them or they stood up and fought back.
And so those school students who’d never been involved in anything before stood up and they fought back.
And when they were in that kettle, being kettled in by police, you know, the word went round as we were sitting huddling round fires sharing out what little food we had and the word went round, people said, we know what they’re up to. We know that they don’t think we’re a danger to the public. I’m fifteen-years old, people there were as young as thirteen. We know they don’t think we’re going to run riot though the streets of London. We know what they’re up to. They think that if they kettle us now we’re not going to come in a demonsration ever again.
Well let the word go out from today, people said, let the word go out about next Tuesday. Let the word go out about next Week, and next month and next year that they can’t stop us demonstrating. They can’t stop us fighting back. And however much they try to imprison us on the streets of London, those are our streets and we will always be there to demonstrate. We will always be there to fight.
People who had always thought that the police were just those people at the other end of the telephone line to help if there was a burglary, people who had always thought that the media were just those friendly newspaper men there to give them that unbalanced picture of the facts, people learned a lot last Wednesday. People learned a lot as they huddled round fires and then emerged from that kettle to see headlines like “Vandals” on the Evening Standard that afternoon. People learnt a lot when a police van was left in the middle of the road so that the police could tow it away and show the whole public that, look what vandals these people are. People learned a lot.
So the message that goes out from last Wednesday is very clear. We are no longer that post-ideological generation. We are no longer that generation that doesn’t care. We are no longer that generation that’s prepared to sit back and take whatever they give us. We are now the generation at the heart of the fight back. We are now the generation that will stand with everyone who’s fighting back.
The most inspiring thing, I think, was that just after Wednesday, hundreds of people joined a Facebook group, school students joined a Facebook group in solidarity with RMT members on strike. Those are people who previously thought Tubes [ subway ]strike was something annoying because it stopped them getting into school. Now they think they’ve got to link arms and fight back with everyone.
So we want to show solidarity with everyone who’s fighting back. We hope you’ll show solidarity with us and send a strong message to this government that they can’t throw their cuts at us. We’re gonna stand up and we’re gonna fight back.
(thanks to peacearena.org)