The last couple of weeks are being awesome. We are back on stage and rocking hard.
We are definitly having a great time playing these gigs with Sepultura and Angra.
Amazing to see all the MindFlow fans singing along with us! Make us always give our best to return this energy. Jau and Ourinhos! Thanks.
You are a great crowd!!!
In Ourinhos, the producers of the event had a really great initiative, besides paying the tickets, the fans brought a 1kg of food to help people that really need.
What a great gesture! And thats rock is all about: ATITUDE!
What can be better than that? A really rocking night that end up helping a lot of people!
So, we from MindFlow support this action and we want to encourage other producers to do the same.
LET YOUR MINDFLOW...
Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Don’t ever let the wrong get by
As a Brazilian citizen we are used to see and hear about corruption everyday.
It is everywhere, but mostly in our government and governmental institutions. Our president party, the “PT” or “Partido dos Trabalhadores”, and most of his close friends, have been accused and condemned of serious crimes, mostly of stealing the nation’s money originally destined to health, education and other fundamental necessities. Anyway, Lula remains in the power with one of the greatest public acceptance ever.
I can’t understand it. How can the politicians of a country with thousands of kids dying everyday of hunger steal from it’s own people to buy castles, mansions, helicopters, to satisfy their luxury? How can they see a little kid starving and don’t feel guilty about it? They are directly killing them. The same thing with our health: thousands and thousands of people dying of “dengue”, a disease very close to the yellow fever, because of the poor situation of the hospitals the government maintain so they and all their parents can have the car of the year. One of the richest country in the world with one of the biggest miserable population.
Even so, the public acceptance is better than ever. That’s because most of our people aren’t educated, and the politicians are happy to keep it this way. So they can, with a few bucks, with programs like “bolsa familia”, buy their votes and acceptance. I just can’t understand how can they live with themselves.
And we are all so used to it that nobody do nothing.
We who are educated and can see what is really happening and do nothing about it, we too are guilty of this situation. We have to fight against it. We can’t accept it. We have to protest, to show everyone our point of view, do what we can to change our country and our world. Because it’s ours too, and if we don’t change it, nobody will. We are the makers!
It is everywhere, but mostly in our government and governmental institutions. Our president party, the “PT” or “Partido dos Trabalhadores”, and most of his close friends, have been accused and condemned of serious crimes, mostly of stealing the nation’s money originally destined to health, education and other fundamental necessities. Anyway, Lula remains in the power with one of the greatest public acceptance ever.
I can’t understand it. How can the politicians of a country with thousands of kids dying everyday of hunger steal from it’s own people to buy castles, mansions, helicopters, to satisfy their luxury? How can they see a little kid starving and don’t feel guilty about it? They are directly killing them. The same thing with our health: thousands and thousands of people dying of “dengue”, a disease very close to the yellow fever, because of the poor situation of the hospitals the government maintain so they and all their parents can have the car of the year. One of the richest country in the world with one of the biggest miserable population.
Even so, the public acceptance is better than ever. That’s because most of our people aren’t educated, and the politicians are happy to keep it this way. So they can, with a few bucks, with programs like “bolsa familia”, buy their votes and acceptance. I just can’t understand how can they live with themselves.
And we are all so used to it that nobody do nothing.
We who are educated and can see what is really happening and do nothing about it, we too are guilty of this situation. We have to fight against it. We can’t accept it. We have to protest, to show everyone our point of view, do what we can to change our country and our world. Because it’s ours too, and if we don’t change it, nobody will. We are the makers!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Hunger
For most of us, hunger is short-term, with a simple and foreseeable solution: easy access to a wide array of food and nutrition choices. But for over 850 million people in the world, hunger is a daily, inescapable reality.
According to the World Food Programme, “one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide—greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.” Not only are the risk factors facing malnourished people dramatic, the results are catastrophic. Estimates indicate that 53 percent of deaths among pre-school age children in the developing world are due to complications caused by malnutrition on top of diseases such as measles, pneumonia and diarrhea.
“Hunger and malnutrition are the underlying cause of more than half of all child deaths, killing nearly 6 million children each year.”
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The world has the resources to address all the problems [of hunger] with the technology and the global wealth that exists. However, do we have the will and commitment to do so? The many causes of hunger and malnutrition seem simple; yet ending hunger remains difficult to achieve. In order to understand the elusive solution, we need first to examine the interconnectedness of the root causes of persistent famine and malnutrition.
According to the World Food Programme, “one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide—greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.” Not only are the risk factors facing malnourished people dramatic, the results are catastrophic. Estimates indicate that 53 percent of deaths among pre-school age children in the developing world are due to complications caused by malnutrition on top of diseases such as measles, pneumonia and diarrhea.
“Hunger and malnutrition are the underlying cause of more than half of all child deaths, killing nearly 6 million children each year.”
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The world has the resources to address all the problems [of hunger] with the technology and the global wealth that exists. However, do we have the will and commitment to do so? The many causes of hunger and malnutrition seem simple; yet ending hunger remains difficult to achieve. In order to understand the elusive solution, we need first to examine the interconnectedness of the root causes of persistent famine and malnutrition.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Why?
FGV (Getúlio Vargas’s Foundation) put together a study indicating that 53% of the Brazilian population doesn’t have access to basic sanitation and if based on the progress made along the country’s history, the problem will be completely solved on the year 2122.
On the other hand the public machine grew. According to the government, on the first 3 years of the actual administration, more than 37,500 new political ranks were created with no further explanation. The spends pass over US$ 300 millions with all that people.
Problems like lack of basic sanitation for more than half of the people living in Brazil, poverty and no access to medical care are not new issues in Brazilian history.
So we can’t help but to ask why spend US$ 300 millions creating 37,500 new inside the government jobs when you can invest this money to solve problems or, at least, to extinguish the suffering from the more needed? This question may sound naïve, and the government probably has a very wise answer.
But the fact remains…
Apparently, for some unknown reason, the government prefer to grow than to do the job they were hired to.
They prefer to become fat, leaving the children thinner.
LET YOUR MINDFLOW…
On the other hand the public machine grew. According to the government, on the first 3 years of the actual administration, more than 37,500 new political ranks were created with no further explanation. The spends pass over US$ 300 millions with all that people.
Problems like lack of basic sanitation for more than half of the people living in Brazil, poverty and no access to medical care are not new issues in Brazilian history.
So we can’t help but to ask why spend US$ 300 millions creating 37,500 new inside the government jobs when you can invest this money to solve problems or, at least, to extinguish the suffering from the more needed? This question may sound naïve, and the government probably has a very wise answer.
But the fact remains…
Apparently, for some unknown reason, the government prefer to grow than to do the job they were hired to.
They prefer to become fat, leaving the children thinner.
LET YOUR MINDFLOW…
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.”
This is one of many articles from "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
These lines seems obvious and for that we shouldn't dedicate our blog to remember people about that, right?
It is impossible someone being discriminated just because his place of birth!
No way, everyone is happy as hell all over the world!
Yes, I am being ironic. And if you, from the very beginning, noticed that irony between the lines, it means you are aware that people around the world still suffer because its social origin, sexual orientation, color, opinion, etc.
If it is so brutally obvious, why this kind of discrimination still live among us, strong and vivid? Maybe because is easier to destroy than build, to let rot than create.
Let’s create life.
www.humanrightsactioncenter.org
MindFlow "Fragile State of Peace": The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
LET YOUR MINDFLOW…
This is one of many articles from "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
These lines seems obvious and for that we shouldn't dedicate our blog to remember people about that, right?
It is impossible someone being discriminated just because his place of birth!
No way, everyone is happy as hell all over the world!
Yes, I am being ironic. And if you, from the very beginning, noticed that irony between the lines, it means you are aware that people around the world still suffer because its social origin, sexual orientation, color, opinion, etc.
If it is so brutally obvious, why this kind of discrimination still live among us, strong and vivid? Maybe because is easier to destroy than build, to let rot than create.
Let’s create life.
www.humanrightsactioncenter.org
MindFlow "Fragile State of Peace": The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
LET YOUR MINDFLOW…
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