Today, 22 April 2010, is Earth Day, the day to remember that we need permanently to protect the Earth. Each of our actions and inactions affects our environment. We need to adapt our lives in order to save our planet, and raise awareness to extend these ideas to those that are not convinced of the importance of this.
There are events organized all around the globe. Look for them on the Earth Day network website.
Today, it is International Women’s Day. A day of celebration of what we have achieved in women’s rights, but also a day to put the spotlight on the injustices that women still suffer all around the world: unequal salary and work conditions in the developed world, limited rights in some Muslim countries, exploitation in many developing countries…
The victims of these injustices are not only women, but all. A world that is unjust for some, it is actually unjust for most of us except the minority that takes advantages of the injustice. Thus, all of us should be activists in removing from our planet the stigma of being a woman.
I’d like to quote a sentence that I read today on Francisco Polo’s blog:
To be a girl is so powerful that we had to educate everyone not to be one.
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