The myth that
justice required Eddie Machen to
fight Champion Floyd Patterson, which would have called
for capitulation by Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato, was exposed by none other than Machen in a lusterless draw with Zora Folley a couple of weeks ago.
The standard of political and moral performance
required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social
justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care
for nature; 5) increase in policies
for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and
fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.
Given the increasingly urgent need
for courageous action to
fight climate change and the environmental and human injustices that it causes (climate
justice), we now
require a new level of congregational engagement.