That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death.<br>
Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the poor and the rebelious.<br>
Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they are tired of neoliberal experiments.<br>Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away my ancestors from here.<br>
I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create.<br>I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless creative world :)<br>
<br>Ana<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@littlepig.org.uk">simon@littlepig.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic<br>
realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment<br>
that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural<br>
exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this<br>
process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic<br>
principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to<br>
the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to<br>
out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under<br>
pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social<br>
contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium<br>
to the Asian.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Simon<br>
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On 16/06/2011 10:55, "Andreas Broeckmann" <<a href="mailto:ab@dortmunder-u.de">ab@dortmunder-u.de</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros.<br>
><br>
> (is this an accidental series, or are we<br>
> observing the erosion of something big?)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Delo - Slowenien<br>
> Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen<br>
><br>
> Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am<br>
> Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012<br>
> vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen<br>
> Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei<br>
> anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale<br>
> Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis<br>
> für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur:<br>
> "Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen<br>
> Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie<br>
> so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die<br>
> Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend<br>
> waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte.<br>
> Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt<br>
> Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden<br>
> zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper<br>
> Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so<br>
> weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte<br>
> Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte<br>
> Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche<br>
> Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes<br>
> einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats<br>
> vergessen hat." (16.06.2011)<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html" target="_blank">http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html</a><br>
> (externer Link, slowenisch)<br>
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