Nicaragua Network

“One Planet: One People. Inter-Dependence Now!
Refugees, Global Warming and the Dawn of Hope"

DECEMBER 8th – DECEMBER 27th, 2015

As the gathering storm of refugees fleeing war, rapine and global warming is met with ever-increasing fear and force by the West, ALBA--Latin America’s Fair Trade block based on mutual respect, financial democratization and care for the planet--offers an already-successful and humane way through the maelstrom - largely self-inflicted though it is through unjust trade and predatory violence. No wonder 'ALBA' translates as 'Dawn'! 

Based on his own experience of ALBA’s transforming work in Central America, given the Pope’s urgent linking of slash-and-burn capitalism to environmental catastrophe, and with a ‘make-or-break’ climate change summit due in December, Paul argues that the current refugee ‘problem’ shows just how profoundly the self-proclaimed ‘developed’ world is mired in a greedy individualism masquerading as independence.   On the contrary, true independence is essentially rooted in INTER-dependence, just as, in any truly-loving relationship, both partners are healed and set free. 

To refuse such ‘unrealistic’ idealism at this vital moment for all life on Earth is to surrender to the ultimate unreality of a self-sustaining 'Me-First-World'.  ALBA, however, working through cooperation rather than competition, shows how that other healed world - so longed for, by so many, for so long – is indeed finally possible. 

Sharing 45 years of analysis, practical experience and songs of peoples' struggles from Santiago to Salt Lake City, Paul breaks the media embargo on good news from Latin America. In so doing, he asks schools and churches, unions and even countries to ‘Declare INTER-Dependence!’, before the infantile individualism so relentlessly promoted by the misinformation of the corporate media and the brainwashing of the ubiquitous ‘selfie song’ finally swallows us alive.
   
It’s up to us. One Planet. One People!
  
Presentations:  Published author, with 45 years as an experienced lecturer, analyst and well-regarded singer/songwriter, Paul’s presentations range from lecture hall to concert stage, and can be crafted to suit university classes and faith communities, ecological, peace/justice groups, unions and cooperatives through to primary schools.

Fees (negotiable) support his ecological, educational and cultural work in Nicaragua, and keep his family in rice, beans and the occasional glass of Chilean red.
 
Original songs:

‘Frrrapuccino, Crrrapuccino!’ (for Starbucks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuxNmsi7r7E

“I Thought I Heard Sweet Victor Singing” (for Victor Jara) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tti7tGNUow

Autobiography: “Song In High Summer” may be found on Amazon and other internet sources

For fuller information/to set up events, etc., please visit:
http://www.paulbaker2004.wix.com/paul-baker-hernandez
 
You can also book a presentation by writing Paul directly at paulbaker2004@yahoo.com
Phone: Nicaragua (505) 77060717
SKYPE: paulbakerhernandez2