Amálie No. 84 - Green Phoenix
June 23, 2010
On 17th June 2010 the Václav Havel Library organised a discussion meeting, Amálie, this time on theme "Green Phoenix".
The tradition of non-public discussion meetings, Amálie, was established by president Václav Havel. Amálie shooting lodge of Lány Chateau regularly hosted meetings of politicians, intellectuals and personalities of public life, always on a set topical theme. After Havel left his function of president, the Amálies started to be organised by the Václav Havel Library. The event takes place in the Library headquarters at the Montmartre Gallery now.
Amálie on theme "Green Phoenix" or "What is the future of green movement in Czech politics" took place on 17th June 2010. Approximately twenty personalities - publicists, activists of non-governmental organisations as well as politicians - participated in the event. Václav Havel himself supported the Green Party during several previous elections. He even remarked, while reading from his juvenile poetry within the "Spring with 36ers" that "he has always been green".
In order of Amálies, counted continuously from Amálies held in the Lány game preserve, this Amálie was the 84th.
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Speech to Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington
„We are still a long way from that „family of man;“ in fact, we seem to be receding from the ideal rather than drawing closer to it. Interests of all kinds: personal, selfish, state, national, group and, if you like, company interests still considerably outweigh genuinely common and global interests. We are still under the sway of the destructive and thoroughly vain belief that man is the pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that therefore everything is permitted. There are still many who say they are concerdend not for themselves but for the cause, while they are demonstrably out for themselves and not for the cause at all. We are still destroying the planet that was entrusted to us, and its environment. We still close our eyes to the growing social, ethnic and cultural conflicts in the world. From time to time we say that the anonymous megamachinery we have created for ourselves no longer serves us but rather has enslaved us, yet we still fail to do anything about it.“
Václav Havel:
Speech to Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington
February 21, 1990
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