[Published on Nov 2008] It could be just a coincidence but from my experience working with women has been very, very efficient. I couldn�??t say the same for the times I have worked with men, which has been a couple of times. And let it be known, that I have never been a strict feminist, fundamentally because I never doubted that the future was truthfully theirs.

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However, I am going to explain myself so some do not misinterpret. These days I have dedicated many discussion in television and radio to speak of �??political utopias,�?� of pragmatics and exceptional dreamers.

I am very angry because their has been some who have kidnapped the meaning of �??utopia�?� and the progressivists have assumed the defeat to the point of accepting that the modern world belongs to the pragmatics and the pessimists.

The feeling of shame that prevents us to revindicate once again the transformer surely proceeds from the Soviet Union�??s downfall and from knowing that some of those leaders betrayed the word equality, to become so pragmatic, unjust, despot, fleshless like some capitalist that the communist said they must be fought against.

And when one asks himself in which hands the future is held, who could turn this upside down to save the little of dignity we have left in our species, one realizes that, the truth is, the response is right in our hands, the women�??s hands. It could be because of a biological reason but to say that would reduce the merit in an arbitrary subject and is much more than that. It has been a cultivation: the tenderness, the compassion, the generosity, the moral strength, the courage, and the level of self demand has found in each one of you a powerful ally. Those feelings have entrenched in women, were caressed, and have become so powerful that they have overcome all dogmatic laws.

This does not mean that there are no men that bring together all of these characteristics, but because finding them is so extenuating, I ask myself if I wouldn�??t be much happier in dedicating my time to something more effective, instead of finding them.

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[Published on March 2009]Some of the family members who are organizing the homage this year for those leftists citizen�??s murdered by Franco have asked me to write a few lines to be read there. Eva and Tomas: you have given me a great gift.

I really liked the ad with the refreshments that asks the grandparent�??s advise to transmit it to the babies, I decided to invest the order into the subject and with a letter towards those republican grandparents who fought for a fair world, for a democratic world. I have also infringed upon the ad�??s song and I beg the readers of this blog toplay the song while reading this entry. Turn up the speakers.

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So many things have happened since you left. So many that you probably wouldn�??t recognize the world that surrounds us. Some of them have been horrifying, but others�?�others have been marvelous.

A letter to a leftists grandfather

Let me tell you a few things:

Is funny, because even if there are many differences, the world that you fought for seems to be the same one we live in today, in this country. For example, all children know how to read and write, however today they do it in very different styled notebooks, really;

And the workers? All workers have important rights: vacations, money if they loose their jobs, help to have their children, the opportunity of being paid while staying home with the baby after giving birth �?�

And universal social security!: the doctors take care and even operate all sick equally, without distinctions, without repairing its resources, with the best treatments. There is water and light in all the houses, and even a restrooms, in all of them! Also people have the right to fall in love time after time because one can marry multiple times!. It is attempted to terminate legislative trickery, with silence and fear of darkness, with no protection, of violence. Because of course, couples are obligated by the law to maintain a great amount of respect.

Religion would also surprise you. Freedom of religion exists!, and is guaranteed by the law!, and today it is a more private than public subject, more individualistic than collectivistic.

And in terms of sex? Ufff, believe me when I say that things have really changed, it has become more logical. Also between men, but this is something too complex to explain.

This does not mean that all has been done. All of this changes has its enemies always on the lookout. But they are pretty lonely. And there are not that many nor are they as courageous as we are.

Today, we don�??t work as much in the fields and many of the materials are brought from foreign lands. We can even travel to Germany, Italy, France and many more countries to work, without many papers.

Oh! And there is also a lot of foreigners who come here!. Now people from Africa, China, Morocco, India live here�?� Many people come, yes, because they wish to live in a country like ours! Some loose their lives trying. Yes. That is still a pending assignment.

So now you know, what you did was very beneficiary. 

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In effect, as Follonero said to Franco in his tomb: the grandchild of a leftists republican is now president of the government.

[Published on November 2008] History is reserving some pages -of various GB- as we live in the moment but some do not seem to know its importance. We live in a moment of grandiose transformations. As Punset tells it, a Spanish divulging scientist, the moments we live around the age of 25 are fixated in our brain as the most important times of our life. Because of this, the other day on TV, I insinuated in a provocative manner that there are so many people left around from the 70s in nostalgia.

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But our revolution is other. In March 13 th , 2004 Spain saw the government of Jose Maria Aznar fall after a text message that ended with PASS IT ON. A simple message of 160 characters, sent by an anonymous citizen, convoked thousands of people to confront the electoral board. That protest was broadcasted alive by thousands of media across the world, and it contributed to a change in the elections. This could be considered as an important and innovative revolution, don�??t you think? Well then, even with all of this, is even bigger than that.

Yes, it was a revolution, but only as a local spectacle of dust, if placed next to what happens daily in the global phenomenon, Internet, Social Networks, blogs, facebook, youtube�?�

�??The protagonist of Cartuja de Parma, Fabricio, does not know if the battle he confronts is anecdotic or transcendent, winning or loosing. Or why they are there,�?� commented the prestigious Spanish journalist, Iñaki Gabilondo. Wars are only organized when they are spoken of.

A modest coffee shop of about 40 tables, called Café Gijón, turned into a very well-known center of intellectuals and artist after the Spanish civil war. Even today, there are those that still organize their social gatherings to try and imitate the past, ignoring that the spirit of Café Gijón left long ago. Today the Generation of the �??27 wouldn�??t unite there. They would fist do it via web.

Therefore, I will like to send a message to all of those who are sleeping: Wake up, you are all the protagonist of our revolution!

Café Gijon has turned to be a galaxy of blogs, in which a new society is fabricated and debated. Their authors are the protagonist of change, connecting to groups and interchange new idealisms. Washington Note, Taegan Goddard, John Amato,  Joshua Micah Marshall, Juan Cole, Markos Moulitsas, Chris Cillizza, are some of the thousands of names, in USA, that know and create the basis of change, each on its own territory. Only history will recognize their space.

Im leaving many, very important ones, because this phenomenon is galactic and with many followers. Luckily this is a post: you can make it yours, choose others on my blogroll and even include your own, -if it doesn�??t yet appear-, in contribution to this one, our community.

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[Published on Feb 2009] Among all the analysis around this crisis, the most seductive invitation comes from Iñaki Gabilondo, a great spanish journalist: �?? Let�??s give attention to the alter globalization groups�?�. Let�??s listen to them. They have been warning us from some time about what was coming to us, preaching in the desert. We have to listen to them, fundamentally, because, like Gabilondo explains, we are never going back to where we were. We need to anticipate our new destiny for the train has left the station forever.

In effect is true. Every country has invented its own lie. The USA and their trashy mortgages, their pyramidal operations, their shady ratings, while the rest of the countries implemented protectionisms proper of the XVI century. Aznar, for example, was able to reduce the unemployment from 22% to 11% in a short period thanks to, fundamentally, the brick sector. A bubble was created and Ponzi was worshiped. That was not an Spanish miracle, that was a makeup operation. The saved in Social protection and in emergency mechanisms and they did not even pay attention to the transport revolution, social migration, comunications revolution nor to the border disaperance. They were only celebrating everyday banquets. If we want to get out of this crisis and get back to place we were before, you may want to blow up that bubble again, and create whatever is left virgin, destroy the coastline, cheat the foreigner, look to the other side and pray waiting to see the greatest power to fix it all before it turns into a calamity. But it doesn�??t seem too rescannable, don�??t you think?

We will never go back to were we stood. Today it is important to think that the 11% of the construction workers unemployed, which qualifications are very concrete, can be assumed again by the job market, or by laws designed for the capital world. Won�??t be passed.

The good news is, however, that there are people that been doing this analysis for many years, warning us of their risk and arguing alternatives in the Social Forums of the entire world. There are names such as Ignacio Ramonet and his organization ATTAC, Susan George, Naomi Klein, and even Joseph Stiglitz, that have a certain idea of where the alerts are.

Because while a group of doctors try to revive the old dictator, there are many other people speaking of the succession. Guess who has more options in the future?

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[Published on March 2009]The economical analysis is apocalyptic. The powerful employ themselves to announce the danger we are confronting. An example: Francisco Gonzalez, BBVA president, whoes salary oscillates between 5-16 million dollars annually, -in function with the consulted sources- the other day it was permitted to ask for a great agreement before �??the national emergency�?� in which we are currently in.

And its call, like in other economical figures, is being a very efficient manner against social mobilization. Is a way of screaming �??everybody freeze.�?�

I did not think, however, that this capacity to create uneasiness was efficient among progressives.

Because we are the biggest historic opportunity the leftist party has ever had to change the model, to look for a new one, a more just one.

A few months ago, when the system was at the point of collapsing, even the most doubtful subjects speculated about the necessity to recreate capitalism. But now, that all has been settle, they breath calmly and they only speak of using bandages.

The economic system governing us has sustained big inequalities all around us. This is indisputable. The market can not be governed by itself, because ambition is its only fuel. That does not mean that everything in the world has been damaged. Of course there are many who are satisfied in this system! If I made 5 million euros a year, at the least, I would be happy as well. The same would be if I had a transgenic company, or a bank in a fiscal paradise, or an oil company, or a diamond mine, or even a coffee or cacao distributor�?�or many, many other things. The problem is that a big part of the system has built in unjust ways over thousands and thousands of people that suffer so we celebrate night after night our excesses. We are the bourgeois of the new global middle ages.

This system has been able to convince us of two traps. The first: that today many more individuals live better than with other models. That this is the best of the worst systems.

The second trap is that they have made us believe that we are all inspired to reach the highest levels. Under this illusion, this mirror, thousands of honest individuals contribute to injustice. They become divided, they are careless of the others suffering, they minimize it and are intoxicated with ambition and see change as an utopia.

And in this context one asks himself: Who will present an alternative? Will it be religion? Will it be the left party? The right party? Who will demand a change? Will it be the internet?