The 5 “Pros” of Change

07/09/2015

2 min.

Alfonso Molina writes on The Huffington Post: “A few years ago, like many others, I was profoundly influenced by Stéphane Hessel’s literary cry. In the last years of his life, he produced Time for Outrage! The book was published in Italy in 2011 and inspired youth protests in Spain, Israel, Chile, the United States and other countries around the world.

In Italy, there were the strong protests organized by the "Popolo Viola" at the end of 2009 and the "Se non ora quando" Movement at the beginning of 2011, while the Arab Spring began flowering at the end of 2010.

Reflecting on the meaning of this protest as a tool to improve the world, I wrote a “Letter to the Italians,” which, however, I never published. It remained as a Word file hidden in a folder on my PC. I reread it today, four years later, and have found that it is still absolutely relevant and hardly needs to be updated.

It’s true that a lot has happened since. Italy has had various different governments and undergone the greatest economic crisis since World War Two, but the basic challenges it faces are identical. One of these concerns a cultural challenge that could be achieved by the development of a community of individuals that passionately share the same message that I wanted to launch to young, adults and elders who wish to create a better country and a better world. Together, everyone should be part of a civil movement of individuals and organization that not only protest, but also embract the 5 “pros” of change: pro-test, pro-pose, pro-ject, pro-active and pro-tract to pro-create a better world.

Each of these 5 “pros” has become the subject of the first posts on the blog that Alfonso Molina signs on The Huffington Post to share a research-action methodology that brings to concrete results, even in the short-term.

Here are the posts that have been published to date (in Italian):

The 5 “Pros” of Change