News Of The Day - Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill To Be Signed

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Dear World,

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Here we are, at the Point of no Return. We have to decide – either we are going to go forward as human kind, developing new ideas as well as technologies, or we are going back to the times called “simpler” by some, but in practice quite more complicated for a lot of us. 

If we continue being silent on the backwards steps some of the countries are taking (India, Russia, etc.), soon these steps will be taken by our own countries and there will be no one left to help us fight! 

Forget politics and concept of nationalities – we are one, when it comes to these important issues! React! 

"First They came..." - Pastor Martin Niemöller

First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Uppdate 21/2: All out has a campaign to stop the Anti-Gay Bill in Uganda, sign it!

                        

 

Change the world, we must.

     One might wonder why I would start this blog in 2014 when it almost seems that the blog-era is in its final days. No one has either time or interest anymore to read these long, elaborate posts written by complete strangers. Why read a 3-pages long babbling when you can use twitter, right? However, I feel that twitter’s 140 characters per post are too short for everything I want to discuss here, as well for the way I want to discuss it. My idea is not to write a completely personal blog about  my own thoughts, feelings and life events, even though some of the posts are going to be based on my own experiences. The goal is to present a blog written in a more ”academic” way, with quotations and references from relevant theorists and researchers. That way, I feel that my texts will become more relevant and perhaps start some kind of debate, not only in the comment section, but also in the heads of my possible future readers. 

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     Finally, what am I going to concentrate on in these texts? As the name of this blog states, I consider myself to be an activist at heart. That means that I feel that my involvement in individual movements and organizations is just not enough for me, even though I plan to continue on participating in them. My opinion is the following: looking at all these organizations such as the human rights’ and LGBTQI movement, antiracist, feminist, environmental, etc. organizations, as well as those who fight against cruelty towards animals, I see only one goal. And that is to change the world we live in for the better. For some reason, their fights have not yet become one, even though I’m convinced that the goal(s) would be reached much faster that way.

     That’s why this blog is going to serve as some kind of meeting point for many of these important issues. I can only hope that this way I can inspire all these different activists to begin fighting together. Change the world, we must.