In the previous posts I wrote about two very important issues that are very related to each other, education and development. This time I'll write about another very important issue that I have been writing a lot in this decade doing this blog and deserve the concern of everybody. The defense of human rights. Actually I have been a strong, steady, and resolute activist for human rights. I think that the defense of human rights should have much more activists than there are nowadays. Everything that we take for granted in a democracy depend on human rights: your freedom to speak what you want to speak, your freedom to choose any candidate you want to vote, your freedom to have the most basic things in your life such as: your own life and your privacy, your freedom to access justice and official organisms and have your complaints take seriously. And your right to have some reparation, compensation when your right have not been respect and this damage severely your life. A life without those basic human rights is so unbearable that is even difficult for us to imagine our lives without them. If you want to imagine how would be to live without those basic rights, you can watch some movies to help you to imagine how unbearable it would be. Movies such as: 1984, The Killings Fields, Hunger Games, V for Vendetta and many other fictional and non-fictional movies telling us how abuse of power can increase to the point to interfere in our daily and intimate lives doing us to think how precious are those basic rights. It's important to know how a dystopia would be in order to avoid any precedent event or situation that can lead us to this nightmare, to this hell for the majority of the population. Besides movies, the literature can also give a clear idea how a dystopia would look like. If you want to know about the importance of dystopian literature, you can read this post http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-importance-of-dystopian-literature.html or this http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2016/01/orwells-world.html. Nowadays eventually we still can listen some disinformed people say nonsense about human rights, for exemplo that human rights defend bandits or it's against punishment. I have been writing a lot about the importance of human rights, but if you especifically want to read something about punishment and human rights click here http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-human-rights-agenda-and-struggle.html or here http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2018/12/handbook-on-justice-for-victims.html. If you are a reader of this blog, after the readings of these posts and realizing all that have been happenning in the world in the last two decades, I hope you have a better understanding about human rights and become a human rights defender too. And for those that already are human rights defenders like the NGOs I hope you can realize that more can be done.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Sunday, October 4, 2020
10th Anniversary of this Blog - Part II
Last weekend I wrote about why I began this blog and why I became an activist for better education. I hope at this moment in history everybody has realized how important education is to personal growth and a country development. In this second part of the celebration for the tenth year of this blog I'll write about another important issue I have been writing. As many of you know I studied Economics during two years in the UFJF during my early twenties, altough I didn't graduate because I worked too much, generally during the 1990s I worked six AM to eleven PM, seven days a week. I learned a lot. And then I felt that was important to explain some economical issues to the people. For example, when compare GDP growth among countries, you need to look among countries with the same stage of development. For example, for a developed country to grow 4% in a year, it is a big thing, but this rate of growth is not big thing for a developing country, and much less for a underdeveloped country. It is happens because of the saturation point in every market in the developed country. For example, in the developed countries there is not much to do in the infrastructure market. Speaking of GDP growth, since the first year I have been publishing the GDP growth of Brazil and many other countries. And what can we realize from this? Comparing the Latin America countries, since 2011. You can see the GDP growth of 2011 here http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2012/05/vol-teac-xxi-real-gdp-growth-in-2011.html you will realize that unfortunately Brazil remains among the countries with the smallest GDP growth in Latin America. The huge potential of Brazil to become a prosperous country is being lost, that why the economists are saying that this decade 2011-2020 is a lost decade. This will be the second lost decade in my life, the first was the 1980s. Why is Brazil failing to us Brazilians economically? Why can Brazil not reach its potential? In this election, ask the candidates what they are doing for better education and to bring development to our cities. So besides being an activist for better education I have been an activist for development and development is reached through GDP growth. In the beginning of this decade, the GDP growth in Latin America was already a concern of many economists, as you can read in this link http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2013/10/lx-after-golden-decade-can-latin.html but even in the previous decade, 2001 - 2010 called by many economists as Golden Decade, Brazil had on average a GDP growth a little more than of the GDP growth of the world.