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Mónica Roa
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Pienso en cómo fortalecer el poder narrativo de los movimientos sociales en América Latina. Conexión para un “nosotros más grande”. Imaginación radical para ilustrar el mundo que queremos ver. Esperanza activa para seguir caminando en tiempos oscuros.
“Vivimos en el capitalismo. Su poder parece inescapable. También lo parecía el derecho divino de los reyes. Toda organización humana puede ser cambiada por los seres humanos y ese cambio suele empezar en nuestro arte, el de las palabras”
Ursula K. LeGuin
February 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Tenemos que resistir a la idea de que todo es oscuro y terrible, que la destrucción es inevitable (...) Deberíamos ser utópicos, reivindicar cosas que parecen imposibles (...) Una de las mayores responsabilidades de nuestro tiempo es imaginar la posibilidad de futuro."
Judith Butler
February 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sumoud is defiant resilience -- in Palestine, it means forging an unbreakable spirit; planting hope in the ashes of destruction.
February 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
La flor y la náusea - Carlos Drummond de Andrade (extracto)
¡Una flor ha nacido en la calle!
(…)
Su color no se percibe.
Sus pétalos no se abren.
Su nombre no está en los libros.
(…)
Es fea. Pero es una flor. Ha roto el asfalto, el tedio, la náusea y el odio.
February 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Mónica Roa
Solidarity saves lives

"Dozens of agents from multiple agencies swept the building. Agents appeared to leave the Edge emptyhanded, with residents refusing to open doors. After knocking on doors throughout the complex, federal authorities sped away in their vehicles."

denverite.com/2025/02/06/a...
What we saw from inside ICE’s raid at Aurora’s Edge apartments
Denverite documented an immigration raid in Aurora, staying with residents through the night.
denverite.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Cada nueva crisis duele, pero es clave crear espacios para sentir el dolor colectivamente y dejar q nos transforme. Al compartirlo, reconocemos nuestra interconexión, responsabilidad compartida y cuidado mutuo, forjando vínculos y la energía necesaria para imaginar y construir otro mundo posible.
Mónica Roa López on LinkedIn: ¿Cómo canalizamos este dolor?
Lo vivimos día a día con cada nueva mala noticia: lo que está ocurriendo nos duele. En este contexto, es fundamental darnos tiempo y crear espacios para sentir…
www.linkedin.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

-H. E. Luccock
January 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

Nick Cave
January 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“While calling out/in is fighting against what we hate, calling forward is building upon what we love.”

- Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski
January 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Mónica Roa
www.infobae.com/espana/2025/... “Llevo aquí diez años trabajando y nunca había visto que tuviésemos pacientes en tres pasillos a la vez, eso es lo que de verdad nos está asustando” #Madrid
Si la gripe ha bajado, ¿por qué se saturan las urgencias en la Comunidad de Madrid?
Los hospitales madrileños vuelven a vivir este invierno escenas de saturación en sus servicios de urgencias
www.infobae.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“The expectation that change will be swift and the failure to perceive it when it’s not impacts politics for the worse. A common source of uninformed despair is when a too-brief effort doesn’t bring a desired result—one round of campaigning, one protest.”

Rebecca Solnit
January 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ideas on active hope for 2025!!!
podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/f...
27. Keep Democracy Alive in 2025
Episodio de podcast · FrameLab Podcast · 04/01/2025 · 4 min
podcasts.apple.com
January 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“Imagination is not a luxury; it’s a necessity for creating the futures we deserve. To be free is to dream beyond what is and act on what could be.”

Elissa Sloan Perry
January 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“Paloma buscando cielos más estrellados, donde entendernos sin destrozarnos, donde sentarnos y conversar…”

youtu.be/Etw2z3Pk2zw?...
Ana Belén interpreta 'España camisa blanca' en el Museo del Prado
YouTube video by Cadena SER
youtu.be
December 31, 2024 at 11:28 AM
The future is a story waiting to be written.

- Paul Rogat Loeb
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 AM
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt
December 20, 2024 at 5:53 AM
A traveler arrives in a village facing hunger and scarcity. She places a pot of water and stones on the fire, declaring she’ll make soup. Intrigued, villagers gather. As she praises the soup, they add what they can: a carrot, lentils, salt. Together, they create a meal that nourishes and unites them
December 19, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Si supiera que el mundo se acaba mañana, yo, hoy todavía, plantaría un árbol.

-Martin Luther King
December 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
“Fear is a survival response… So the real trick, the only hope, really, is to allow the terror of an unlivable future to be balanced and soothed by the prospect of building something much better than many of us have previously dared hope.”

-Naomi Klein
December 17, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Mónica Roa
Reminder…Self care is going to be critical to our survival.
Please look after yourselves mentally, and physically.
Let’s also not forget to look after one another. 💙
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”

— Sarah J. Maas
December 15, 2024 at 8:52 AM
“La esperanza es un sueño despierto”, decía Aristóteles. Esta frase nos invita a ver la esperanza como una fuerza activa que conecta aspiraciones con realidad. No es pasiva: exige esfuerzo y determinación para transformar lo imaginado en un futuro posible.
December 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM
-Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel
December 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM
“Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.”

And I say, this is true around the world, everywhere we need to defeat authoritarians!

wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/a-ne...
A new wave of movements against Trumpism is coming
Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.
wagingnonviolence.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:18 AM