Consciousness was the word of the month.
Each country tapped into the need to shake the consciousness within its people to be able to instill desired change.
A few of our sources used it in the sense of awareness.
Dr. Stuart Schaar from Brooklyn College, CUNY, said only when you’re conscience of what is happening can you make the change. He added, though, when you learn about a situation in need of attention or intervention, the key is not to pity people. People, such as the women of Morocco, do not need pity, nor do they want it.
Schaar said, using Moroccan women as an example, they are extremely capable of their own efforts, and it would be shameful to denounce them as otherwise.
Malinda Seneviratne, poet and editor of The Nation newspaper, also used the conscience shake up as an awakening.
“You must sleep, then I can wake you up,” he said. “Don’t fake sleep.”
His extra layer to the topic was not to pretend you are unaware. Also, a change in the consciousness means be ready for a change of state and being.
To move forward on the national level, there must be a shift in the societal consciousness. This was also highlighted in Turkey where we examined the wiring of the country’s history. Though their civilization has altered with each new cultural influx, there are still dynamics that hold them back from breaking into modernity.
The obstacle for this consciousness breakthrough, Dr. Johanna Buisson of EGE said, is it takes a very long time.
Buisson was our lecturer for feminism and Islam, a discussion that revealed the need for aware or active individuals to find support in any outlet possible to defeat the civilizational forces pushing against them.
Consciousness as a collective being does not transform in just a few years; it’s a generational development.
In regards to equality for women in Morocco, the Moudawana was a step toward new times, but Buisson assured us there is a disconnect between laws passed and implementation.
It is progress, however.
My challenge is how to relate this conscience metamorphosis with media, particularly localized or alternative journalism.
I think a critical but missing piece to these countries’ shake-up is the lack of publicity and reporting of each step taken. If more citizens were aware of laws being passed or regulations changing, then they would be more likely to act on that information or seek out similar outlets.
On the ground level, it would require an immersed reporter to observe small daily incidents both in the public and private sector that could attest either to a change in progress or a stalemate of action.
This could be where the alternative medium plays in. Fresh angles and frameworks, perhaps even creative styles, would be the only outlet to portray these stories. There must be an understanding that proof of revolutionized consciousness happening is not always in the facts, on paper or in the policies, but in the lives of the people.
Each country tapped into the need to shake the consciousness within its people to be able to instill desired change.
A few of our sources used it in the sense of awareness.
Dr. Stuart Schaar from Brooklyn College, CUNY, said only when you’re conscience of what is happening can you make the change. He added, though, when you learn about a situation in need of attention or intervention, the key is not to pity people. People, such as the women of Morocco, do not need pity, nor do they want it.
Schaar said, using Moroccan women as an example, they are extremely capable of their own efforts, and it would be shameful to denounce them as otherwise.
Malinda Seneviratne, poet and editor of The Nation newspaper, also used the conscience shake up as an awakening.
“You must sleep, then I can wake you up,” he said. “Don’t fake sleep.”
His extra layer to the topic was not to pretend you are unaware. Also, a change in the consciousness means be ready for a change of state and being.
To move forward on the national level, there must be a shift in the societal consciousness. This was also highlighted in Turkey where we examined the wiring of the country’s history. Though their civilization has altered with each new cultural influx, there are still dynamics that hold them back from breaking into modernity.
The obstacle for this consciousness breakthrough, Dr. Johanna Buisson of EGE said, is it takes a very long time.
Buisson was our lecturer for feminism and Islam, a discussion that revealed the need for aware or active individuals to find support in any outlet possible to defeat the civilizational forces pushing against them.
Consciousness as a collective being does not transform in just a few years; it’s a generational development.
In regards to equality for women in Morocco, the Moudawana was a step toward new times, but Buisson assured us there is a disconnect between laws passed and implementation.
It is progress, however.
My challenge is how to relate this conscience metamorphosis with media, particularly localized or alternative journalism.
I think a critical but missing piece to these countries’ shake-up is the lack of publicity and reporting of each step taken. If more citizens were aware of laws being passed or regulations changing, then they would be more likely to act on that information or seek out similar outlets.
On the ground level, it would require an immersed reporter to observe small daily incidents both in the public and private sector that could attest either to a change in progress or a stalemate of action.
This could be where the alternative medium plays in. Fresh angles and frameworks, perhaps even creative styles, would be the only outlet to portray these stories. There must be an understanding that proof of revolutionized consciousness happening is not always in the facts, on paper or in the policies, but in the lives of the people.
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