Mónica Roa

“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

"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

Sumoud is defiant resilience -- in Palestine, it means forging an unbreakable spirit; planting hope in the ashes of destruction.

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.

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.

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."

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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…

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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…

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.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

-H. E. Luccock

Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

Nick Cave

“While calling out/in is fighting against what we hate, calling forward is building upon what we love.”

- Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski

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/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

“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

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Ideas on active hope for 2025!!!
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“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

YouTube video by Cadena SER Ana Belén interpreta 'España camisa blanca' en el Museo del Prado

“Paloma buscando cielos más estrellados, donde entendernos sin destrozarnos, donde sentarnos y conversar…”

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The future is a story waiting to be written.

- Paul Rogat Loeb

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

As 2025 approaches with its profound challenges, we can face them
together in community, putting into practice the democratic values we wish to see in the world.
We invite you to make
"stone soup" by forging deeper connections among the many movements we collaborate with across the globe.

5️⃣ It reminds us that hunger is not only physical. The yearning for connection, community, and purpose is just as urgent and can be addressed alongside material needs.

4️⃣ Its benefits are collective. Organized solidarity generates a common good that strengthens cohesion and shared purpose.

3️⃣ It emphasizes that we already have what we need to move forward. Our communities hold the potential to turn challenges into opportunities without relying solely on external resources.

2️⃣ It highlights the importance of human agency. There is always something, however small, that we can do to transform our reality.

This story is powerful for several reasons:
1️⃣ It addresses immediate and complex problems. It reminds us that even in the face of desolation, hope is a political commitment.

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

Si supiera que el mundo se acaba mañana, yo, hoy todavía, plantaría un árbol.

-Martin Luther King

“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

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. 💙

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“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.