Hace poco más de un año una empresa (ocean embassy) intentó construir un parque acuático en Panamá, la principal atracción: delfines. Capturarían delfines en las costas panameñas para el parque y estudio.
Desde el principio la cosa no pintaba bien, se hacen llamar una organización sin fines de lucro, montando un negocio a todas luces lucrativo, enmascarado como un proyecto de conservación marina, por directivos sin logros importantes en el campo de la conservación, con una cuota de captura anual muy por encima de lo que podría ser aceptable, etc, etc.
La movilización fue masiva, gracias a grupos como la Fundación Humanitas, Marviva y fundaciones internacionales se logró parar la construcción del proyecto. Se creó un grupo en facebook el cual al momento de escribir esto cuenta con 8747 miembros, desde allí se informaba y coordinaban actividades de protesta pacífica, se firmaron peticiones y se convocaron marchas.
Ahora la historia parece repetirse, pero esta vez hay una diferencia notable, no son delfines, somos nosotros, la empresa Petaquilla Minerals intenta montar un complejo para la minería metálica de cielo abierto.
Lamentablemente a nuestra sociedad (panameña) le importa muy poco lo que suceda con su población indígena (primeros afectados), menos le importará a la comunidad internacional y cuando el daño afecte al resto del país probablemente sea muy tarde. Esta vez no tendremos apoyo internacional.
¿Podrán los grupos cívicos, fundaciones, redes sociales, prensa e Internet parar esto?
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My friend Tuomas informed me today that he developed a sort of RSS feed that you can have on your instant messenger. The service takes the rss feed of BBC news and publish them to the subscribed user.
If you have a gtalk account in your IM client, like kopete, pidgin or similar you will receive a chat message with the headline everytime there’s new news, also (for me, using kopete, not sure about other IM clients) you can scroll from headline to headline with the previews and next buttons.
