A nice quote from the World Social Forum in Brazil...

The african speaker from Mali related a story when she was still a child on a practice in Dhakar, Senegal. As a child, she has observed that they can buy birds from bird merchants whenever she feels sad and then released it to be free, believeing that with the freedom of the bird, her sadness would be released as well. As an adult, she have refelected on this practice and would still like to free the birds, not by buying is freedom from the bird merchants that are bird catchers as well, but by breaking the cage. She then challenge President Lula to show her support to the campaign by symbolically tieing up the white band in his wrist.
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