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Borders Will either Fall
or They Will Move
Sunny morning and rainy
afternoon. A good atmosphere and crisis in some of the groups.
Just as in life in general. But also in the European Meeting.
A nice evening after dinner. An accordion plays along with
percussion drums to songs in Russian, English, Greek, Pole,
French, or Catalan. We recognize ourselves in the pictures
of the day, projected on a wall together with the video
images retelling the history of the Alliance. We speak of
what is being prepared in other continents, we are impatient
to receive their first pictures and messages.
We are 132 participants
from 39 countries of the Old Continent, gathered to express
our strong desire for a different Europe. An atmosphere
similar to the one in Seattle, Millau, Prague or Porto Alegre…
Citizens of all countries, unite your forces and convictions:
the participatory democracy is on its way!
Humanity in action and dignity: the new
social objective ===================================
We have spent the whole
day working in four groups to advance the proposalsthat
we shall be discussing together tomorrow. In every room
there is a map of Europe showing our countries. The hours
go by like minutes. The intensity of our discoveries overwhelms
us. The point is not only to enlarge Europe but also to
bring about a change, in the East as in the West, by building
something more than a just bigger Europe. One thing is for
certain: borders will either fall or they will move. The
objective of
society is neither employment nor work, it is humanity in
action and in dignity. But we still have so many important
topics to discuss, such as: How can wealth be redistributed?
Because the meeting is
short, we are also testing new methods of communication
to express our positions and opinions. Each of us has four
cards (a green, a yellow, a red and a black one) to express
their position (of agreement, fifty-fifty, of disagreement,
not understood) regarding the proposals put to the floor.
This is how, on the second day of the meeting, the links
are being woven among people of different cultures who wish
to build a common destiny.
More tomorrow.
>From Sinaia, Rumania,
June 18, 2001 -- European Continental Meeting
Martí Olivella
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