User:Book/BlogEntry: 2008 January 18 10:20:44 EAT
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My Kenyan friends are sending SMS and - in case they can access the internet at all - email which are as worrying as the news reports in the media. Or even more worrying, because often it is difficult to know whether the media are actually speaking of real people made of flesh and blood. "Can't do nothing here as theres no thing and the roads are blocked" (seen in the inbox of my phone, yesterday). And even: "Hi, the tension is so high and we have been denied access to basics needs here and the situation is getting worse, people are killing each other like flies it is so bad. Please pray for us (from an email 2nd January).
I can pray, but I am afraid it will not help to "pray for Kenya". We need to pray for the unity of mankind - for humanity - and not only for the unity of the Kenyans. And then, when we have prayed, what can we do?
We can continue. We can go on with the linking of the World Social Forum to the libraries. In situations of extraordinary turmoil and stress, such as the situation in Kenya after the elections 27 December 2007, the right thing to do is precisely to continue patiently to work towards the possible other world.
On the WSF Library website, the next task consists in creating / improving the main pages of the 21 Actionable themes. The pages are there, the base of the structure is in place. he proposals from the Nairobi WSF are waiting to be followed up. (The proposals from the Nairobi WSF are listed here: http://www.wsfprocess.net/2007p )
