LIMUN 2013

LIMUN, the largest annual university-based Model United Nations conference in Europe, presented yesterday in HULT university in London its Secretarian team for 2013. The main theme this year it is the conference about the MDGs that will take place next February from the 15th to the 17th in London. 

Secretarian Team 2013

Press Team 2013

Social crisis, instead

 Since "networks are part of our reality" (M. Castells), I will perform this role sharing some ideas I have gotten from Manuel Castells, today at London School of Economics (LSE). Under the title: "The crisis always rings twice", Manuel Castells gave us an answer about how the financial crisis has caused. He explained that it is/was "a combination of new technology, through a process of deregulation and reckless of financial managers".

Financial system is built in a sense that people do not mind. As Manuel Castells explained, reffeing to the action we are taking to solve the financial crisis, "we save the banks, but let the people fall". He also interpreted the current crisi of the power´s system as one where the "elites have lost the capacity to rule the financial system".

Furthermore, there is a more important cause for the moment we are living in: a social crisis. Since every economic process implies a social process, here it is the explanation of how people interact and organize through the network and the implication this has to our lifes. Manuel Castells refers the networks as an important basis of the self in what he calls it "the real virtuality", where information is the cornerstone of humanity.

He links the social process to the fact that the economic crisis has lead us to a social crisis, pointing out the question: "who has lent money to a non-family member? not many nowadays", was his answer. And, who will be able to work less if they will be paid less? A positive answer of the former question is what he describes as "post capitalism" or "non-capitalism" society. That it will probably happen soon.

However, meanwhile there is a process of marginalization. Here, the case of Greece came out as "they are going through a process oof desistegration on its political system". Also, the Spanish indignadoswas  represented by the statemet of "when systems block, the new social opinion is formed".

Therefore, he made sense of the fact that the economic crisis is not over, but there exists a political crisis to legitimacy that has been followed by a social crisis where: "European identity will work fine as long as there is not crisis".

Everything here emphasize the current economic and political crisis with a new aspect: a social crisis. However, it was his last comment what called my attention: "the non-global global crisis", where global economy is growing.

That´s wrong folks!

When you look yourself in the mirror, you can have an image of want you see on it, maybe what you want to see from it, but perhaps it is not the real version of the fact. This is not the way to look at things to find the true reality.

Democracy, good word, but what does democracy really mean?. The closest example that we have in the world is just a mere reflection of the real one (where people can make choices and change things).
Today, in the London School of Economics (LSE), the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, Luis De Guindos, came to explain "The Spain´s Economic Strategy". I still wondering was it is...

Nevertheless, for those who were not able to get in the conference, we stayed outside to, at least, have the possibility to hear some answers that could make the Spanish situation a bit more clear in our minds (not just some nice words to make us believe things are better than they really are...). In the door, I met some nice people from the 15-M movement (more info in twitter: @15mlondon) who, at the song of "They called it democracy, but it is not!", were raising their voices to be heard (because the is no other way). "Nicely" one of the Minister´s bodyguard told us to move back because the Minister was not going to answer our demands. Well, since at least we have some freedom of expression I would like to raise my voice as well to ask the questions for what I have no asnswer (and perhaps nor they do):

-What action is Spain finally going to take regarding to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)?
-Why is there a contradiction about the amount of money Spain is supposed to ask to the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Wyman report?
-How and when are we [all, Spanish and the rest] going to see any good outcome of the economic policies taken in Spain to the economic recovery?
-Why to fund financial institutions with public money when the people can not even eat?

I can just say that the world we are living in, the things are happening and what we are doing to solve them are all wrong. There is not the way just to speech nice words and to wait results to come out, neither is the solution to shout and complain without trying to do something else. We have to work together, build something from what we have and try to develop it in the best way possible. But confrontation is not a solution.

We (the people) have the voices to fight from our rights, but (as this is not a real democracy) we can not change things that easily. In this capitalist (still) world only the powerful ones make the decisions. We have of course to use our voices, demostrate is necessary to be heard, but we should use them to build something else greater from the facts. Raise your voice, demostrate but do something else. They have to know we are here for more than just complaining. All together we can do it, because we also have the power, and Spain is not for sale!, we are here and we should defend it!