At DGH we are clear that there is an intrinsic relation between art, health, education and Human Rights. Several DGH Advisory Council (AC) members and friends are artists, and art in its various forms inspires our daily work. Hence we have decided to include this part of the newsletter, where we share some of the art of various forms that has influenced our lives. This is also a call for you to share with us the art that you have found wonderful and liberating. It would be one of the best contributions you could make with us.
| Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!
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Revolution in El Salvador, By Tommie Sue Montgomery, PhD,
Westview Pr, 1995, ISBN 0-8133-0071-1. Written by a DGH AC member, this book is a
well-written guide toward understanding the causes, origins and changes within the recent
(1980-92) revolution in El Salvador.
The Massacre at El Mozote, By Mark Danner, Vintage Books, 1993,
ISBN 0-679-75525-X. A definitive book on the cover-up of the massacre at El Mozote,
which is helpful in understanding the role of the US government in the war in El Salvador.
Witness to War, By Charles Clements, MD, Bantam Books, 1984, ISBN
0-553-05064-8. Written by a DGH AC member, this book is required reading for DGH
volunteers in El Salvador. It is dangerous for a medical student at exam time because it
is so intriguing one normally reads it in a single seating. It contains the war-time
observations of a US physician–who is also a veteran of the Vietnam war–during
his year treating civilians in FMLN-controlled areas of El Salvador.
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Ascension, by Mariu Suarez the artist who drew the DGH logo, depicts the importance of using our common cultural heritage to rise to new heights of humanity and enlightenment (Oil and Egg Tempera on canvas, 72”x60”). |
Helping Health Workers Learn, By David Werner and Bill Bower, The
Hesperian Foundation, 1982, ISBN 0-942364-10-4. This book is required reading for our
DGH international Volunteers. It is a Bible of Community Health Work.
My Travels Around the World, By Nawal El Saadawi, MD, Mandarin
Paperbacks, 1991, ISBN 0-7493-9122-7. Observations and experiences of a woman
physician from Egypt, recommended by DGH AC member Lenore Azaroff. I found this book very
helpful in better understanding the world from a Southern perspective.
Writings for a Liberation Psychology, By Ignacio Martín-Baró,
Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-674-96246-X. The author was one of the six
Jesuit priests killed, along with their house-keeper and her 14 year-old daughter, by
US-trained members of the Salvadoran Army at the Jesuit Central American University in San
Salvador on November 16, 1989. His methodology of community-based psychology inspired the
work of DGH in the preventive mental health for children project in Morazán. This book
has also strongly influenced our concept of "liberation medicine."
Jamkhed, By Mabelle and Rajanikant Arole, MacMillan Education,
1994, ISBN 0-333-57736-1. This is the chronicle of a successful Community-Based
Integral Rural Health Development Project, done with a minimum of overt politics and with
a clear dedication to the liberation of women and the poor. Each page offers more ideas
that may improve our work in Morazán.
Where There is No Doctor, By David Werner, The Hesperian
Foundation, 1992, ISBN 0-942364-15-5. This book, a classic, is required reading for
DGH international volunteers. Actually, it is useful for anyone, anywhere, to read and
have available for reference at any time. It has probably saved more lives than any
medical text written.
| I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? “For beauty,” I replied. “And I for truth–the two are one; We brethren are,” he said. And so, as kinsman met at night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
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Rebellion from the Roots
, By John Ross, Common Courage Press, 1995, ISBN 1-56751-042-6. This is a strongly-written introduction to the war in Chiapas, Mexico–very worth reading.The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the
seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the
capacities of every kind with which we have been endowed.
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Man Facing Southeast, 1986 Argentinian film
with English subtitles. Directed by Eliseo Subiela and Inés Verrengo; Starring Rubens
Correa and Hugo Soto. What is sanity in an insane world? This movie beautifully
explores that question as a new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He
claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. He is gentle, but
criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of one another. The assigned psychiatrist is
himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight, as were those of us who rented it
after the first DGH General Assembly.
Down Came a Blackbird, 1995 USA movie directed by Jonathan
Sanger; Starring Raul Julia, Vanessa Redgrave. This story deals with the little seen
topic of life after torture. It follows a journalist who was tortured while reporting in a
foreign country as she finally comes to terms with the experience with the help of others
who had lived through similar experiences.
Missing, 1982 USA movie directed by Costa Gavras; Starring Jack
Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the
story of an American father of conservative background who comes to a South American
country to search for his missing son, a political activist. Ed joins his daughter-in-law
Beth, who like her husband is politically polarized from the father, in prying through the
bureaucracy and dangerous political intrigue in search of their son and husband. Slowly,
the father comes to realize that his own beloved government is not telling him the truth.
 Wake Up!, by Mariu Suarez challenges us to bear witness to the injustices perpetrated all around the world, often in the name of preserving “our way of life” (Oil and Egg Tempera on canvas, 72”x58”). |
Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull. Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap; Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.
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