Rhine, don´t you do that to me!

the hours spend in the forests are not lost

It´s pumpkin time again.
Cutting whatever pumpkin in cubes
frying it quickly with some cubed onion
and thai red chilli paste (chillies, garlic, Galangal)
boiling it with some soy-sauce, coconut milk and water
mashing the soup
peanutbutter or ginger with itif we like it


Last weekend two of my former Danish studymates and
professors have been over
we had a seminar on social work in an age of globalisation
so nice to see them all again
and to discuss e.g. different integration-strategies for migrants in Europe
I remembered how I liked to study in Denmark
the time to read so much, to think and to discuss
not always produce, produce, produce papers as it is here
i finished my last procrastinal one
now ready for the final thesis


I liked Resas post to blog action day
there are a lot of small or bigger things we can do to minimize poverty

and keeping awareness

helping is powerful
in many ways

it also includes putting the helper in a powerful position
we help according to our own mindsets
to what we think is good

How do we actually know what poverty is?
Definitions are plenty,
one is that poverty is when you have less then ca. 45% (these numbers differ) of the average income of your country
another is that poverty is defined by not having enough to feed your body what it needs, etc. - this is what we most urgendly talk about: people dying from hunger.
It´s about inequality, the belief that every human life is precious, that we should have the same rights and chances making a good life. That we have responsibility to help each other when we are in need. (...)

Ulrich Beck, a german Sociologist wrote recently in "Die Zeit" that global social inequality actually becomes a (political) problem when morals or norms of equality spread. People born equal, are yet unequal according to national borders. National borders determine how we perceive social inequality. Social inequality becomes quickly a political problem within national borders,- but is stabilised at the same time (in the same thought)outside national borders. The system of inequality is legitimated by the achievement principle (Leistungprinzip) on the national level, and by the principle of the national state on the gobal level. (...)
Quite visible in our nowadays migration policitics. (A homepage where you can sign to stop the death trap at European borders.) And empire politics.


We need a stronger identification on the global than on the national level. Ironically financial crisis and climate desasters might help us with this.

Besides:
current music that strucks is Boxer from the national, brainy.

And we get more and more aware of the fact that "All our bodies rebell against cosmopolitan."