Comments on: Professor Wangari Maathai on the radio http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/29/professor-wangari-maathai-on-the-radio/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Maura Colleen Farrall http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/29/professor-wangari-maathai-on-the-radio/#comment-565117 Maura Colleen Farrall Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:28:22 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=5838#comment-565117 I heard Professor Maathai speak a few months ago and was moved by her words. She spoke of the role of government as a body working to protect and care for their people, she particularly focused on the role of the government as the custodian of a country's natural resources. The people have the right, and the obligation to be heard by their government and to hold them accountable for their actions. Professor Maathai has worked ceaselessly to make governement more responsive to, and focused on the people and land they must protect. Professor Maathai said that she, and the people of the Greenbelt Movement work on an issue until they find they are making no progress, but rather than give up, they leave that method that did not work yesterday and try another way to improve the lives of their people. I remember particularly that she said that no matter how small, she wanted to be caught on the road doing the right thing. All of us should share that goal. I heard Professor Maathai speak a few months ago and was moved by her words. She spoke of the role of government as a body working to protect and care for their people, she particularly focused on the role of the government as the custodian of a country’s natural resources. The people have the right, and the obligation to be heard by their government and to hold them accountable for their actions.

Professor Maathai has worked ceaselessly to make governement more responsive to, and focused on the people and land they must protect. Professor Maathai said that she, and the people of the Greenbelt Movement work on an issue until they find they are making no progress, but rather than give up, they leave that method that did not work yesterday and try another way to improve the lives of their people.

I remember particularly that she said that no matter how small, she wanted to be caught on the road doing the right thing. All of us should share that goal.

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