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Reporter's Notebook: Marcel Miranda

About Marcel Miranda

Biography
A frequent traveller in Mexico & Central America, I look for the barriers - real or imagined - that divide us and limit our effectiveness. My Spanish sucks but I've spoken bad Spanish so long that it works - I make fun of myself and make stupid jokes about gringos - they always laugh! 37 years old, 12 years of college, a diverse background and persistent questioning... The Andes are the only future we have.

Leagacy of Pope John Paul: War Criminal or Simple Hypocrite?

Having watched the Pbs Special on the Pope - and Knowing (seeing) the atrocities committed by the US financed Death Squads of Central America (during my visits in 1998 and 1989) - I copied the transcript for the show and was searching around the internet when i found this report on indymedia - Wow - It is true...  

 I believe that in order to understand the cirisis of the church and of politics in Latin america that we need to identifiy the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the church and its Pope (s) ...  !

Special on Pope John Paul

[Titled: Pope a War Criminal and Hypocrite for Bush ]

http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/update/i ndex.php
Martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero to Become a Saint - John Paul to Be Tried for War Crimes and Genocide;

 

Catching a Sneaky Fox in A Pipeline Scandal: Oil and the Power of Arizona Big Shots

Arizona has approved the construction of an oil refinery based on Mexican oil and a pipeline from Guaymas. The 3 to 4 billion dollar project is bad for Mexico. Jobs and income will be lost and a dangerous dependency on the US will increase.

Beyon Ideology - Onto Doing Somethin

The idea is to agree upon a general outline so that we can move on to organizing and building resistance to capitalism and ...  globalization’s social, military and extortionist aspects.

Test of the Ring: No One Has Ever Passed It, Some Go Crazy, Some Just Cry

The Test of the Ring can assist you in smashing your brain-washing and to actualize the severe changes that dignity and honor call down upon our thinking, the clarity of our goals, the design processes of our strategies for change and the purpose and operations of the institutions that shape our lives and our deaths.

Sieze the View (and th e Power) to Change the World

Capitalism – NO! – Community Serving Markets – YES ! –

... we live unable to exercise our imaginations, nimbyism is everywhere – in our heads , in our proposals in our values. Like in Colombia where people support Uribe...

Without honesty among and within ourselves are we even human? Are responsibility and honor now expunged from that thing we once held so high: humanity and brotherly love?

Balance of the Prod and the Kiss

What questions to ask... I don't know what kind of answers the audience would want. Who is the audience? Thinking to hard is dangerous. it is better to let it flow now and then. Seek a place where you can observe the balance between a Kiss and a ...

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About Marcel Miranda

Biography
A frequent traveller in Mexico & Central America, I look for the barriers - real or imagined - that divide us and limit our effectiveness. My Spanish sucks but I've spoken bad Spanish so long that it works - I make fun of myself and make stupid jokes about gringos - they always laugh! 37 years old, 12 years of college, a diverse background and persistent questioning... The Andes are the only future we have.