Febrero/February 2020
February is Black History Month in the USA and - less known - it is also the Season for Nonviolence that was established in 1998 by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, as an annual event that celebrates the philosophies and lives of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
This is an appropriate month to reflect on the legacy of these two great beings of the twentieth century. Their messages and actions affected millions of people to live in freedom and to change anachronic government systems peacefully and without violence.
Nonviolent rebellions have exploded in these first two decades of the 21st century as social outbreaks that struggle for fairer societies and with true possibilities of education, work and welfare for all social sectors. Education, Work and Welfare are three rights already recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris, on December 10, 1948.
Given the many injustices and violent deaths that still govern human life on this planet, it is worth remembering what all the countries of the world signed and committed to respect seventy-two years ago…
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt