{"id":22408,"date":"2012-10-29T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=22408"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:59:04","slug":"the-right-to-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/the-right-to-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rhymed Reflections<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To Water all human beings should have the right<br \/>\nbut why isn\u00b4t that vital right always in sight?<\/p>\n<p>Because of humiliating, unfair, dehumanizing forms of economic oppression<br \/>\nthat cause so many people in the world to water not find the direction<\/p>\n<p>Because in many urban spaces, a water supply is valued as a type of gold<br \/>\nand by water-supplying trucks that liquid of liquids is expensively sold<\/p>\n<p>That water-selling practice can be seen ,for example, in Brazil,<br \/>\nAbout such abominable economic deprivation, why can`t we stand still?<\/p>\n<p>If there is to be a Dignity Economy, as Evelin G. Linder has cogently advocated<br \/>\nIn the Global Right to\/Responsibility for Water, all citizens should be educated<\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em><em> among others, of the book<\/em> Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (<em>2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\"  target=\"_blank\">www.nonkilling.org<\/a><em>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Water all human beings should have the right<br \/>\nbut why isn\u00b4t that vital right always in sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}