Re: [-empyre-] farewell 'crusades' plus brief break

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

Hello Christina, 

Merci de vos voeux et recevez tous les miens pour cette nouvelle année !
Que des bonnes choses, toutes celles que vous souhaitez pour vous en 2007 !


Aliette


On 1/01/07 4:45, "Christina McPhee" <christina112@earthlink.net> probably
wrote:

> dear List,
> 
> Thank you so much, Ana Valdes (SE), for being our guest moderator
> this month.   Ana has been an activist for many years and we are
> honored to have her
> involvement, not just this month, but quite frequently (see
> especially her contributions for the July 2006 discussion on "bare
> life"  https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-July/.
> 
> As Ana writes,
> 
>> 
>> As many of you who have been reading my posts know I was a political
>> prisoner in Uruguay during the 70:s. We were tortured and beaten in
>> the name of the Christian values (for a further reading on the subject
>> I recommend an article written by the physician Manuel García Jr,
>> published in Counterpunch,
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia03282006.html).
>> 
>> The only way I know to fight the Fundamentalism of all religions and
>> political ideologies is the way we, intellectuals, scholars, artists
>> and activists, act. For me are Literature, Art and Activism related
>> and give me a platform to work for a change and to work for peace and
>> dialogue.
>> 
> 
> Thanks  also to Ana's guests Cecilia Parsberg, Jan Erik Lindstrom,
> Loretta Napoleoni, Susan Meiselas, and  Raul Moarquech Ferrera-
> Balanquet for thoughts and views, as well as reader contributers
> Henry Warwick, Aliette Certhoux, Joy Garnett,  and GH Hovagimyan.
> 
> 
> We'll be taking a couple of days off to recover from New Year's Eve
> and will start again on the 2nd or 3rd January 2007 (depending on
> which side of the dateline you're on).
> 
> 
> Very best wishes for joy and happiness, and especially peace, in the
> new year.
> 
> 
> Christina
> 
> 
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