hello give me the first seconds and
if it is possible to answer raising the
manna who of you are activists
As you know I do not see well I will imagine
that some of you have raised your hand
others do not and others know how to doubt now
imagine for a minute
what is the profile of the activist how
is how did you see how he talks about how he thinks and
how it defends according to what causes and leave it
there in our imaginary as a photo
fix the real academy of the language
define activism in a technical way as
the tendency to behave in a way
extremely dynamic or exercise
of proselytizing and social action
public character or as Maria would say
luisa toribio biologist author of the blog un
journey towards activism where you
argues many of the ideas that you
I want to move today when we listen
the word activism we do not climb to the most
high of the towers of kio de madrid
where it is deployed where climbers
greenpeace displayed a banner in
against the transatlantic treaty of
trade or does not go aboard the austral
the open art proactive ship that
sail in mediterranean waters
rescuing refugees or we
leads to the door of a dwelling before
the one that crowded members of the pah
who try to stop an eviction and if
they are activists are in my opinion heroes
more or less anonymous convinced of
different causes at all levels
social and environmental humanitarian
including cultural
but going back to the initial question I
I think we would all have to lift
the hand without doubting convinced of the power
that have each of the actions that
we make in our day to day there is a
everyday activism that we exercise
since we got up with the amount
of water that we use to shower the
breakfast coffee the clothes that we
We put or the means of transport that
we use to go to our
under all of them are powerful
social transformation tools
each of our purchases so
We decided not to buy the bank in which
we deposit our money
everything helps to shape the
society in which we live when
you teach your son to your nephew the
importance of recycling sherry that hero
anonymous that activist that is made
responsible for what is happening in
the planet the quality of the air that
we breathe the pollution of rivers and
seas the toxic products that invade
the most everyday of our lives are
In short, our responsibility
we have the ability to turn
the figures at present is easy
find plastic in the stomachs of
multiple species of seabirds and
aquatic animals as you know the
classic enter the food chain
and it ends in the human body
we have to be aware that the
disproportionate use of plastic
single use only
yes that we use for the holidays
children not to brake or drink
water in our work
in addition to its inadequate treatment and a
very low level of recycling end up by
affect our lives directly
and so we went therefore so
I think we exercise activism
healthy when we do not accept bags of
plastic in stores and supermarkets every
once we wonder if not at all
in some of the products of our
shopping cart work impact
social or environmental has that is
activism is activism because we know
that it is not easy to exercise
responsable
we do not always have stores at hand but
in albacete there are examples that put
our disposition great variety of
ecological products put us in
contact with small producers
local
we have the option to buy trade
just in short if we are worried about what
that we put on our table
the origin of what we put in our
table
that is that we are activists when
We use moderate and reasonable
I would say of heating or air
conditioning or when we do not step on the
lift and up the stairs
we are activists we understand that the
Energy saving is important and we
we take care of him when we
we inform about what is happening in
the planet and we act accordingly
we are activists
climate change is a fact and it is not
a joke
it’s no longer about it being cold when
it must be hot or vice versa
besides that we are developing
allergies that we never had what we what
what we eat affects the traffic of
animals and plants
it’s a bloody crime that moves thousands
of millions of euros a year a business
a crime comparable by volume of
business to arms trafficking and trafficking
of drugs
a bloody business that compensates
the traffickers since it is less punishable
and less pursued and the figures could
surprise thousands of animals are
killed each year to traffic with their
skin horns or fangs in
last 15 years
seizures have risen from
Considerably in more than 120 countries
different
each year they are marketed in a
illegally one and a half million live birds
tons of medicinal plants and
we cut another big ton of wood
exotic and this illegal traffic in addition to
be an addition to being a crime against
nature that is
besides reducing natural resources and
push thousands of species to the
extinction besides that is a drama for
the local societies of the countries of
origin of these illegal products put
at risk its social development its
economic development and even their
lives
we continue without wanting to be with
before what affects a part
of the planet today will reverberate long
term to the other part of the planet
nature has withstood pressures without
precedents
we have halved the species
wild in less than a generation
but we live a moment of transition a
hopeful moment I want to think
that we do have the possibility of
build a sustainable future
the quality of life of the generations
future will depend on what we do in
the next few years and the challenge is enormous
because we live in a world in which
also trafficked persons
number of refugees who have
I have been forced to seek asylum in
third countries has been increased
considerably in the past
years according to acnur figures over 60
millions of people have had to
leave their country of origin because they
are in a situation of
forced displacement and other so many
have had to leave their homes and
their countries for economic reasons or in
the search for a better life
the reasons why people
migrans are varied are diverse and
complexes for some people are
difficult to understand
I just think that fear of
difference does not allow us to see beyond
there are people who leave their country of
origin for economic reasons as it was
my case there are people who abandon their
country of origin to complete their
studies as it was also my house but
there are as many thousands of people
they leave their country of origin for fleeing
abuses against the human rights of the
torture of the barbarity of the war of
the persecution and even death
and maybe what he tried to move
it’s nothing new but what I want
let’s understand together, is that
we are activists in our day to day life and
with a lot of power
every time we support an NGO that
deploys humanitarian aid or that
rescues animals or that investigates in
matter of human rights violation
we are activists
every time we sign against a
injustice because we are convinced of
we are activists and believe me a
signature lifesaver when I think of everything
this I remember a phrase of eduardo
Galeano that I like a lot of people
small in small places doing
small things can change the world
I did not wake up being an activist but
I have to admit that inside me
since she had always moved something
I was born in a country where things are
difficult and in a home where many
sometimes some things were missing with the
time I understood that they were just that
and that I have the ability to live without
them and that’s a great luck to believe me
I come from a very close family and
numerous
my mother’s family
this family has always pushed me
align myself with the good things that
I considered cup that I am able to do my
grandfather left us emblazoned which
it is well help the one who does not and believe me not
there was a loophole and even today we are that
kind of network even when my family in
some cases are separated by
borders and by seas and although my grandfather
it is no longer
We know we are there to help
my grandfather the sme to it my grandfather a
orphan man since child sowed between
us among all you see there and
others are missing
solidarity and then it became easy
be with others and that is another type
of activism that I’m sure that
you are exercising because I am
convinced that you help your
family to your friends and even to
people you do not know
I want to think that if now I told you that
raise your hand
you will feel a greater impulse to do it
although there can be actually what
What it is about is to continue exercising
activism daily activism and the key
here is it be in difficult environments in
complicated environments where with a
little bit of patience and a little
empathy we can find synergies and
complementarity because that we
will allow us to expand our vision of
world
but not only that with a little bit of
luck we will change the world view
of others
Since I arrived Albacete many
years I moved in environments in sight
very different opposites in which
he understood that things can be done
powerful because in the end the environments
we are people
the people we are emotions are
dreams are visions and visions
many times you can cross over and try
of it is that today they are here
accompanying people from their environments
so different from what I consider my
family but in these environments
of course also found
questions and doubts and questions
questions of the Colombian woman type in
business environment and entrepreneurs but
NGO activists with a sign of
very big question
rare difficult inconsistent
Finally, what I can assure you is that
in these very different environments
I have known and lived with people
who have help networks for others
people for homeless collectives for
vulnerable people or for refugees
a whole society political parties
NGOs social agents that have joined
to demonstrate against violence
sexist companies that support the
people with mental illness or with
childhood cancer associations
protective of animals are found in
Support companies to develop
projects projects too
entrepreneurs who develop products
sustainable ecological project
sponsorship of beehive gardens
including chickens
all this in very sight environments
different where I have clear that no
we can be is in indifference not
we have to wake up and what
proven is that in these environments so
different can be exercised activism
everyday your religion your beliefs your
way of seeing the world you can guide
to do big things
there from where you are
so what I invite you to continue being
that fighter why be an activist and
exercise responsible consumption of being a
fighter but it is important to exercise this
activism because there is power when you
questions and when you check the label
of what you buy and you wonder what there is
behind it
there is power when you look for products
ecological and sustainable products
there is power when you inform
you investigate what companies do
you buy
there is power there but above all when
help others in the way they
you can there there is power and there will be forces and
people that will make it difficult for me
I’m not saying it is not
surely we will not be able to be
coherent one hundred percent but who
our example needs it in that
that we can do differently
enough of course it would be
ideal that we did not leave any fissure or
no gap by which we can
question but we are not perfect and not
nothing happens I admire the people who
are consistent one hundred percent that
make activism their way of life that
they marry intensely and powerfully
with a cause
they never leave and for a long time
mind not working in the field
or in areas of conflict over time
stop punishing me for it
I understood that from where I was also
could do important things and that I
I knew what my life was that he had
been my fight
just as you know the bet
what it is about here is that that power
that is in our hands do not lose the
opportunity to use it and that
we try to have an effect
multiplier in him among our
friends among our family among
our co – workers because
so the world is going to change
I am convinced in fact at the end
there are projects that show us that
we can do big things orchards
urban areas that show us that there are
different ways of feeding
second-hand stores waste that
convert resources
all done by normal people and
currents that show us with facts
that change is possible and in the end this
has an added bonus cities
clean and sustainable and over time
we will feel good not only at the level
physical that is very important but to
emotional level and that’s another prize is
a simpler formula than what
It seems
what we can do with our
money because we can afford it
what we do not do with money because
we can not all sow something
powerful and future generations
you will understand that there is a different way
of doing things and that will improve
our lives and believe me
it’s not about dogmatism it’s about a
little bit of commitment because the
background of all this is that we can not
keep ending everything that we
surrounds
we can not remain indifferent to the
pain of others
we can not allow selfishness to
blind in such a way
that we do not want to see realities that we
demonstrate with facts that there is something that
it’s not right that there is something that does not
it works so I ‘m glad it ‘s surrounded
of so many everyday activists because
it gives me a lot of hope
the important thing here is that we do not lose the
illusion and that spirit of solidarity and
of help because things do not change
as fast as we would like
but none of this can take us away from
true sense of humanity that is in
definitive what for me is activism
a little humanity we can exercise
everyday activism in multiple ways
and some are going to be easier for us
what others
some have to do with our time
others may have to do with our
money
others have to do with the
projects in the five in which we
we involved but the important thing here is
that we choose a cause and start
act but above all that we break
Myths
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