Los jóvenes de CJS de Pamplona participan y realizan este video de la Marcha Solidaria

Encuentro Jóvenes y Trabajo

 A las 19:00 tiene lugar un encuentro de jóvenes para tratar un tema que nos involucra a todos directa o indirectamente: el PARO y la PRECARIEDAD LABORAL. Así que nos reunimos en el local acogedor que ya tiene CJS en Carabanchel. 

En primer lugar, Álex nos enseña unos vídeos con testimonios de españoles que han tenido que emigrar a Londres. La cruda realidad se muestra ante nuestros ojos: sueños rotos y tabajos indeseados que nada tienen que ver con los estudios superiores que cursaron en las universidades españolas. Ya en directo, Elena nos cuenta que su padre ha tenido que irse a trabajar a Perú porque en su empresa le han dicho que "aceptas, o al paro".

Después, conocemos el testimonio anónimo de un joven que trabaja en mercadona, y luego Lorena nos cuenta en persona su propia experiencia en España. 

Para resumir, podría  decirse que fue estafada por sus jefes y ¿cómo? trabajando el doble, o más, de lo que le habían dicho y con un trato muy inhumano. Y total, ¿para qué? Para un mísero sueldo que no llega a los mínimos establecidos. 

Lo que estaba claro es que podíamos seguir hablando de casos y más casos de EXPLOTACIÓN y PARO, pero el objetivo no era ese sino, mas bien, buscar las causas. La pregunta clave que dio paso a un debate y diálogo abierto fue ¿el mercado qué papel quiere que tengamos los jóvenes?
Fueron numerosas las causas que dimos para establecer el diagnóstico: "nos quieren explotados, sumisos, miedosos y solos. Pero eso no es lo que nosotros queremos. 

Por último, Bruno nos mostró un vídeo que habían hecho los de Camino Juvenil Solidario en otro punto de España para hacer la denuncia de dos realidades: niños esclavos y parados y nos invitó  UNIRNOS A LA MARCHA POR LA SOLIDARIDAD 2014.

Y esto fue, resumidamente, todo. Ahora empieza lo bueno… 

Lucía Collado. 13 diciembre 2013

Christmas Solidarity Marches

The Christian Cultural Movement, SAIn Political Party, and Youth Solidarity Path, invite you to join more than 30 solidarity marches organised throughout the month of December in Spain and Latin America, with the purpose of representing the voice of the impoverished in the streets and of emphasising that hunger and other attacks on human life can be eradicated if the political will exists.

Extracted from: solidaridad.net

Every day, more than 100,000 people -half of them children- die of hunger

Campaingn for Justice in North-South Relations
AGAINST THE CAUSES OF HUNGER,
UNEMPLOYMENT AND CHILD SLAVERY
Thou Shalt Not Kill (God)

“HUNGER IS THE MAIN POLITICAL PROBLEM OF HUMANITY”

More than 2,500 million people in the world live on less than 1.50 euros a day, and 90% of the world’s population owns only 17% of its wealth. As a result, the economic North has built walls and fences along their borders with poorer nations in an attempt to fence in hunger. Along these borders, violence and death await the millions of migrants who try to cross through Central America, across the Strait of Gibraltar, into Melilla, or over to Lampedusa.

Amidst the reorganisation of the imperialist economic system (or “crisis” as they call it), the world’s wealth has increased, while hunger has multiplied and the gap between rich and poor has grown. And as the richest 10% owns 83% of the world’s total wealth, the 3 biggest fortunes are equal to the GDP of the 48 poorest countries.

But yet again, the media machine of the First World would love to convince us that climate change is the main cause of hunger, tens of thousands of deaths, and the suffering of millions of families affected by the illness, loss of homes, famine and drought after typhoons or hurricanes.

HUNGER IS NOT A PROBLEM RELATED TO FOOD PRODUCTION, NOR OVERPOPULATION, NOR CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT OF PLANNED, SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY.

Juventud y trabajo

Testimonios de lo que está pasando

 

Sábado 13 de diciembre, a las siete de la tarde
Te esperamos en MADRID

Apúntate a la Marcha por la Solidaridad 2014

Five Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Some quotes by Nelson  Mandela to reflect upon:

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We Can’t Forget Malala… We Can’t Forget Iqbal… We Can’t Forget There Are 400 Million Child Slaves Who Don’t Receive Education

The assassination attempt on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai has put her situation in the spotlight. But she’s not the first, writes Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui.

Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to an education.

Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui writes: DO YOU KNOW who Iqbal Masih is? And do you know who Malala Yousafzai is? I believe the majority of you would say no to the first question and wonder why they should know this name. The majority of readers will know the story about Malala, a 14-year-old girl from Pakistan shot by the Taliban last week for her activism for girls’ right to education.

However, both cases are very similar in many regards. Iqbal, like Malala, comes from Pakistan. Iqbal’s name became known in western countries when he was a ten-year-old boy. You know about Malala because she started talking about girls’ rights to education and her diary was published on the BBC Urdu blog when she was eleven.  The attempt was made to assassinate Malala when she was fourteen. An attempt to assassinate Iqbal was made when he was twelve.

And this attempt was successful. Iqbal died at the age of twelve. We all hope that Malala will survive, but why did I recall Iqbal when I heard about Malala’s case?

Iqbal had not had a chance to go to a school. He came from a very poor family which sold him into the carpet industry when he was four.  Together with other children, he spent days working very fine looms on hand-made carpets in slave-like conditions. For instance, children were undernourished so that they would not grow and have small fine fingers required for making good quality fine carpets. Once Iqbal managed to escape he was able to mobilise public opinion not only in Pakistan, but most importantly in the West, including the USA. Malala’s activism also goes beyond Pakistani borders and reportedly she made appeals to the West and the USA.

Children’s Fight for Justice

Many children were set free as a result of Iqbal’s fight. They were able to go to school. Iqbal became famous and the carpet industry became less profitable.

Desde México contra el hambre, el desempleo y la esclavitud infantil

Desde México contamos con la colaboración de Esther, que aprovechó su estancia en ese país para alzar la voz en un grito de denuncia, tratando de ser altavoz de los empobrecidos y presentar las acciones que se realizarán en diversas partes del mundo en torno a la Marcha por la Solidaridad 2014 denunciando especialmente el crimen que supone la esclavitud de más de 400 millones de niños, muchas veces mientras sus propios padres padecen el desempleo o la precariedad laboral: dos caras de una misma moneda.