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My Resoc Interview

By Oscar Vega camacho at Nov 18, 2009


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1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What institutions do you want that you think will be better than what we have, for the economy, polity, gender, race, ecology, or whatever you think is central to have vision for?

Aspirar a un vivir bien, como dicen, los pueblos y naciones indigenas es más que una meta o un fin, porque presupone un camino a recorrer en su busqueda, por lo tanto, son los modos en que se construye los pasos para recorrer y caminar en defensa de la vida, y, consecuentemente, se está cultivando y potenciando las formas y los sentidos de lo viviente.

Aspirar a un proyecto estatal plurinacional orientado a la defensa de la vida y a la pluralidad de las formas vivientes como un paso de transición politica a nuevos proyectos societales y comunitarios en la region, el continente y el planeta.



2. Next, someone at the same event asks, "Why do you do what you do? That is, you are speaking to us, and I know you write, and maybe you organize, but why do you do it? What do you think it accomplishes? What is your goal for your coming year, or for your next ten years?

Aprender, quizas la mayor tarea es el aprendizaje en terminos sociales y culturales, porque tenemos un gran bagaje y herencia que desconocemos tanto de los pueblos y naciones indigenas como de las formas pouplares y trabajadoras. Por una parte, la necesidad de aprender desde las diversas perspectivas de clase, cultura, género y generación, y, por otra, la capacidad de poder trabajar desde el principio pluralista que implica asumir no solo la pluralidad de perspectivas sino ante todo el pluralismo en las perspectivas.



3. You are at home and you get an email that says a new organization is trying to form, internationally, federating national chapters, etc. It asks you to join the effort. Can you imagine plausible conditions under which you would say, yes, I will give my energies to making it happen along with the rest of you who are already involved? If so, what are those conditions? Or - do you think instead that regardless of the content of the agenda and make up of the participants, the idea can't be worthy, now,or perhaps ever. If so, why?

Por supuesto, la inquietud y la necesidad de participación nos pone en alerta permanente para las distintas convocatorias o llamados a realizar acciones y manifestaciones publicas, pero no necesariamente a creer que estas son las instancias o las únicas maneras de ser participes. Nuevamente, el caracter de los caminos y recorridos por la vida nos llama a ser responsables con los escenarios y tramas en que se desenvuelven los diferentes  acontecimientos en y para la sociedad. Por ello, dificilmente se puede en abstracto o genericamente plantear las condiciones para ser participe o los minimos de una agenda posible.


4. Do you think efforts to organize movements, projects, and our own organizations should embody the seeds of the future in the present? If not, why? If yes, can you say what, very roughly, you think some of the implications would be for an organization you would favor?

Indudablemente, los esfuerzos y el trabajo en el presente aspiran a tener consecuencias en el futuro, y en un futuro inmediato, pero es tambien porque no negamos un pasado, la urgencia de entender al pasado no solo como la herencia, aquella enorme carga que sobrellevamos y hasta sufrimos, sino tambien es la responsabilidad de explorarla y aprender de sus encrucijadas y desconocidas rutas truncadas e interrumpidas. El pasado es tambien un tiempo del que debemos aprender como lecciones y alternativas, solamente asi, podemos desplegar en todas sus potencialidades la pluralidad de formas de vida existentes, y quizas aun podamos conservar las que estan en peligro y tambien prosperemos produciendo nuevas.



5. Why did you answer this interview? Why do you think others did not answer it?

Por qué me senti interpelado a responder, quizás, porque me siento responsable por haber aceptado de formar parte del proyecto desde su inicio y si este es el mecanismo -por más mínimo y discutible- de participación en él, tengo que asumir segun mis posibilidades y capacidades las tareas que se planteen.

No todos los que se inscribieron se sentiran interpelados y, mucho menos, a traves de este mecanismo; pero no por ello dejan de ser participes y, tal vez, nos obliga a considerar otras modos de partcipación y a buscar formas de interactuar y dialogar, sería otra tarea por hacer. 


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