TEDGlobal 2005
Eve Ensler: What security means to me
Eve Ensler habla sobre seguridad
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La dramaturga Eve Ensler explora nuestra actual necesidad de seguridad -- y por qué nos hace sentir menos seguros. Escuche historias inspiradoras y emotivas de mujeres que se encuentran realizando cambios.
Eve Ensler - Playwright, activist
Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere. Full bio
Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere. Full bio
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I think it'll be a relief to some people and a disappointment to others
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Creo que sera un alivio para algunas personas y una desilusion para otras
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that I'm not going to talk about vaginas today.
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saber que hoy no voy a hablar sobre vaginas.
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I began "The Vagina Monologues" because I was worried about vaginas.
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Comence los Monologos de la Vagina porque estaba preocupada por las vaginas.
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I'm very worried today about this notion, this world,
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Hoy, estoy muy preocupada por este concepto, esta palabra,
00:27
this prevailing kind of force of security.
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esta imperante especie de fuerza que es la seguridad.
00:31
I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere.
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Veo esta palabra, escucho esta palabra, siento esta palabra en todos lados.
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Real security, security checks, security watch, security clearance.
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Verdadera seguridad, revisiones de seguridad, alerta de seguridad, permiso de seguridad.
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Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure?
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Por que toda esta atencion sobre la seguridad me hace sentir mucho mas insegura?
00:44
What does anyone mean when they talk about real security?
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Que es lo que quieren decir cuando hablan acerca de verdadera seguridad?
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And why have we, as Americans particularly,
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Y por que, especialmente como estadounidenses,
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become a nation that strives for security above all else?
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nos hemos convertido en una nacion que busca la seguridad por sobre todo lo demas?
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In fact, I think that security is elusive. It's impossible.
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En realidad, pienso que la seguridad es esquiva, es imposible.
00:58
We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us.
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Todos morimos. Todos envejecemos. Todos nos enfermamos. La gente nos deja.
01:02
People change us. Nothing is secure.
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La gente nos cambia. Nada es seguro.
01:04
And that's actually the good news.
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Y esas son, en realidad, las buenas noticias.
01:07
This is, of course, unless your whole life is about being secure.
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Esto es, por supuesto, a menos de que toda tu vida se trate de estar seguro.
01:11
I think that when that is the focus of your life,
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Pienso que cuando eso es el centro de tu vida,
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these are the things that happen.
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estas son las cosas que pasan.
01:16
You can't travel very far or venture too far outside a certain circle.
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No puedes viajar muy lejos o aventurarte mucho fuera de determinado circulo.
01:21
You can't allow too many conflicting ideas into your mind at one time,
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No puedes permitir muchas ideas conflictivas en tu mente al mismo tiempo
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as they might confuse you or challenge you.
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dado que podrian confundirte o desafiarte.
01:28
You can't open yourself to new experiences, new people,
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No te puedes abrir a nuevas experiencias, nuevas personas,
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new ways of doing things -- they might take you off course.
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maneras nuevas de hacer las cosas. Te podrian sacar de tu rumbo.
01:34
You can't not know who you are, so you cling to hard-matter identity.
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No puedes no saber quien eres, asi que te aferras a una identidad dura.
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You become a Christian, Muslim, Jew.
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Te conviertes en un cristiano, un musulman, un judio.
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You're an Indian, Egyptian, Italian, American.
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Eres un indio, un egipcio, un italiano, un estadounidense.
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You're a heterosexual or a homosexual, or you never have sex.
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Eres un heterosexual o un homosexual, o nunca tienes sexo.
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Or at least, that's what you say when you identify yourself.
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O al menos, eso es lo que dices cuando te identificas a ti mismo.
01:50
You become part of an "us."
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Te haces parte de un "nosotros".
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In order to be secure, you defend against "them."
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Para estar seguro, te defiendes en contra de "ellos".
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You cling to your land because it is your secure place.
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Te aferras a tu tierra porque es tu lugar seguro.
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You must fight anyone who encroaches upon it.
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Debes pelear contra cualquiera que la usurpa.
02:00
You become your nation. You become your religion.
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Te conviertes en tu nacion. Te conviertes en tu religion.
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You become whatever it is that will freeze you, numb you
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Te conviertes en cualquier cosa que te congelara, te paralizara
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and protect you from doubt or change.
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y te protegera de la duda o el cambio.
02:08
But all this does, actually, is shut down your mind.
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Pero lo único que esto realmente hace, es apagar tu mente.
02:12
In reality, it does not really make you safer.
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En realidad, esto no te hace mas seguro.
02:15
I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami,
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Yo estaba en Sri Lanka, por ejemplo, tres dias despues del tsunami,
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and I was standing on the beaches
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estaba en las playas
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and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes,
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y era absolutamente claro que en solo cinco minutos
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a 30-foot wave could rise up
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se podia elevar una ola de 9 metros de altura
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and desecrate a people, a population and lives.
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y masacrar gente, una poblacion y vidas.
02:29
All this striving for security, in fact,
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Toda esta busqueda por seguridad, de hecho,
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has made you much more insecure
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te ha hecho mucho mas inseguro
02:34
because now you have to watch out all the time.
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porque ahora, tienes que estar alerta todo el tiempo.
02:37
There are people not like you -- people who you now call enemies.
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Existe gente que no es como tu. Gente que ahora llamas enemigos,
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You have places you cannot go, thoughts you cannot think,
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tienes lugares a los que no puedes ir, pensamientos que no puedes tener,
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worlds that you can no longer inhabit.
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mundos en lo que ya no puedes habitar.
02:45
And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory
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Y por lo tanto te pasas tus dias peleando contra cosas, defendiendo tu territorio,
02:49
and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking.
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y atrincherandote cada vez mas en tu pensamiento fundamental.
02:52
Your days become devoted to protecting yourself.
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Dedicas tus dias a protegerte a ti mismo.
02:55
This becomes your mission. That is all you do.
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Esto se convierte en tu mision. Es todo lo que haces.
02:58
Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.
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Las ideas se acortan. Se convierten en fragmentos.
03:01
There are evildoers and saints, criminals and victims.
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Hay hacedores del mal y santos, criminales y victimas.
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There are those who, if they're not with us, are against us.
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Estan aquellos que, si no estan con nosotros, estan en contra nuestro.
03:07
It gets easier to hurt people because you do not feel what's inside them.
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Se hace mas facil herir a la gente porque no sientes lo que esta adentro de ellos.
03:10
It gets easier to lock them up, force them to be naked, humiliate them,
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Es mas facil encerrarlos, forzarlos a desnudarse, humillarlos,
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occupy them, invade them and kill them,
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ocuparlos, invadirlos y matarlos
03:16
because they are only obstacles now to your security.
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porque ahora ellos solo son obstaculos a tu seguridad.
03:20
In six years, I've had the extraordinary privilege through V-Day,
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Durante seis anos he tenido el extraordinario privilegio, a traves del Dia-V,
03:24
a global movement against [violence against] women,
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un movimiento global en contra de (la violencia contra) las mujeres,
03:25
to travel probably to 60 countries,
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de viajar a probablemente 60 paises,
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and spend a great deal of time in different portions.
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y pasar una buena parte de tiempo en distintos lugares.
03:32
I've met women and men all over this planet,
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He conocido mujeres y hombres en todo el planeta,
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who through various circumstances --
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que a traves de distintas circunstancias,
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war, poverty, racism, multiple forms of violence --
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guerra, pobreza, racismo, multiples formas de violencia,
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have never known security,
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nunca han conocido la seguridad,
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or have had their illusion of security forever devastated.
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o que han visto su ilusion de seguridad devastada para siempre.
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I've spent time with women in Afghanistan under the Taliban,
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He estado en Afganistan con mujeres bajo el regimen Taliban,
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who were essentially brutalized and censored.
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que fueron brutalmente abusadas y censuradas.
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I've been in Bosnian refugee camps.
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He estado en campos de refugiados en Bosnia.
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I was with women in Pakistan
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Estuve con mujeres en Paquistan
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who have had their faces melted off with acid.
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a quienes les quemaron sus caras con acido.
04:00
I've been with girls all across America who were date-raped,
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He estado con jovencitas a lo largo de toda America que fueron violadas en citas
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or raped by their best friends when they were drugged one night.
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o violadas por sus mejores amigos cuando fueron drogadas una noche.
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One of the amazing things that I've discovered in my travels
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Una de las cosas mas fabulosas que descubri en mis viajes
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is that there is this emerging species.
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es que existe una especie emergente.
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I loved when he was talking about this other world that's right next to this world.
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Me encanto cuando el hablo acerca de otro mundo al lado de este.
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I've discovered these people, who, in V-Day world,
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He descubierto a estas personas a quienes, en el mundo del Dia-V,
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we call Vagina Warriors.
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llamamos Guerreras de la Vagina.
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These particular people, rather than getting AK-47s,
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Estas peculiares personas, en lugar de conseguir AK-47s
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or weapons of mass destruction, or machetes,
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o armas de destruccion masiva o machetes,
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in the spirit of the warrior, have gone into the center, the heart of pain, of loss.
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en el espiritu del guerrero, han llegado al centro, al corazon del dolor, de la perdida.
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They have grieved it, they have died into it,
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Lo han llorado, han muerto en el,
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and allowed and encouraged poison to turn into medicine.
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y han permitido y alentado que el veneno se convierta en medicina.
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They have used the fuel of their pain to begin to redirect that energy
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Han usado su dolor como combustible para comenzar a redirigir esa energia
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towards another mission and another trajectory.
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hacia otra mision y otra trayectoria.
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These warriors now devote themselves and their lives
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Estas guerreras ahora dedican por completo sus vidas
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to making sure what happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else.
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a asegurarse de que lo que les paso a ellas no le pase a nadie mas.
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There are thousands if not millions of them on the planet.
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Existen miles, si no millones, de estas guerreras en el planeta.
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I venture there are many in this room.
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Seguramente hay muchas en este cuarto.
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They have a fierceness and a freedom
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Tienen una valentia y una libertad
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that I believe is the bedrock of a new paradigm.
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que creo es la base de un nuevo paradigma.
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They have broken out of the existing frame of victim and perpetrator.
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Ellas se han liberado del marco que fija victimas y victimarios.
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Their own personal security is not their end goal,
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Su meta final no es su propia seguridad,
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and because of that, because, rather than worrying about security,
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y por esa razon, porque mas que preocuparse por la seguridad,
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because the transformation of suffering is their end goal,
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porque la transformacion del sufrimiento es su objetivo final,
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I actually believe they are creating real safety
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realmente creo que estan creando verdadera seguridad
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and a whole new idea of security.
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y una idea totalmente nueva de lo que es seguridad.
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I want to talk about a few of these people that I've met.
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Quiero hablar acerca de algunas de estas personas que he conocido.
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Tomorrow, I am going to Cairo,
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Manana viajo al Cairo,
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and I'm so moved that I will be with women in Cairo
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y estoy tan emocionada porque ahi estare con mujeres
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who are V-Day women, who are opening the first safe house
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que son mujeres del Dia-V, y se encuentran inaugurando la primer casa segura
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for battered women in the Middle East.
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para mujeres golpeadas en Medio Oriente.
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That will happen because women in Cairo made a decision to stand up
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Esto ocurre porque las mujeres en el Cairo tomaron la decision de rebelarse
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and put themselves on the line,
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y ponerse ellas mismas en la linea
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and talk about the degree of violence that is happening in Egypt,
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y hablar acerca del grado de violencia que se registra en Egipto
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and were willing to be attacked and criticized.
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y estuvieron dispuestas a ser atacadas y criticadas.
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And through their work over the last years,
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Y gracias a su trabajo durante los últimos años,
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this is not only happening that this house is opening,
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no solo se esta inaugurando esta casa,
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but it's being supported by many factions of the society
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sino que está siendo apoyada por numerosos sectores de la sociedad
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who never would have supported it.
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que nunca las habrian apoyando antes.
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Women in Uganda this year,
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Este ano, las mujeres en Uganda
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who put on "The Vagina Monologues" during V-Day,
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que pusieron en escena los Monologos de la Vagina durante el Dia-V,
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actually evoked the wrath of the government.
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provocaron la furia del gobierno.
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And, I love this story so much.
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Y esta historia me gusta tanto.
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There was a cabinet meeting and a meeting of the presidents
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Habia una reunion del gabinete y un encuentro de presidentes
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to talk about whether "Vaginas" could come to Uganda.
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para hablar si autorizarian o no que las Vaginas llegaran a Uganda.
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And in this meeting -- it went on for weeks in the press,
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Y ese encuentro estuvo en los medios durante semanas ,
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two weeks where there was huge discussion.
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dos semanas de grandes discusiones.
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The government finally made a decision
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El gobierno finalmente tomo una decision
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that "The Vagina Monologues" could not be performed in Uganda.
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que los Monologos de la Vagina no podrian ser interpretados en Uganda.
06:28
But the amazing news was that because they had stood up, these women,
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Pero lo sorprendente es que porque estas mujeres lucharon,
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and because they had been willing to risk their security,
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y estuvieron dispuestas a arriesgar su propia seguridad,
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it began a discussion that not only happened in Uganda,
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comenzo una discucion que no solo ocurrio en Uganda,
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but all of Africa.
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sino que se extendio por toda Africa.
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As a result, this production, which had already sold out,
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Como resultado, la produccion, que tenia las entradas totalmente agotadas,
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every single person in that 800-seat audience, except for 10 people,
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cada persona de esa audiencia de 800 butacas, excepto diez,
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made a decision to keep the money.
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tomo la decision de no devolver las entradas.
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They raised 10,000 dollars on a production that never occurred.
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Asi recaudaron $10.000 con una obra que nunca se puso en escena.
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There's a young woman named Carrie Rethlefsen in Minnesota.
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Hay una joven llamada Kerry Ruffleson que vive en Minesota.
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She's a high school student.
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Es una estudiante de escuela secundaria.
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She had seen "The Vagina Monologues" and she was really moved. And as a result,
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Vio los Monologos de la Vagina y se sintio muy motivada, al punto de que
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she wore an "I heart my vagina" button to her high school in Minnesota.
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fue a la escuela secundaria en Minnesota con un prendedor de "You amo a mi vagina".
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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She was basically threatened to be expelled from school.
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Basicamente, fue amenazada con ser expulsada de la escuela.
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They told her she couldn't love her vagina in high school,
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Le dijeron que no podia amar a su vagina en la escuela secundaria,
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that it was not a legal thing, that it was not a moral thing,
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que no era una cuestion legal, no era un problema moral,
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that it was not a good thing.
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que no era algo bueno.
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So she really struggled with this, what to do,
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Entonces ella se debatio entre lo que debia hacer,
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because she was a senior and she was doing well in her school
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porque estaba en su ultimo ano y le estaba yendo bien en la escuela
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and she was threatened expulsion. So what she did is she got all her friends together --
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pero la amenzaban con expulsarla, entonces, lo que hizo fue reunir a todos sus amigos.
07:33
I believe it was 100, 150 students
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Creo que eran 100, 150 estudiantes,
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all wore "I love my vagina" T-shirts,
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y todas vistieron sus camisetas de "Yo amo mi vagina",
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and the boys wore "I love her vagina" T-shirts to school.
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y los muchachos llevaron a la escuela sus camisetas de "Yo amo su vagina".
07:42
(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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Now this seems like a fairly, you know, frivolous,
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Ahora, esto parece un poco, ustedes saben, frivolo,
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but what happened as a result of that, is that that school now
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pero lo que sucedio como resultado de eso es que ahora esta escuela
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is forming a sex education class. It's beginning to talk about sex,
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esta formando una clase de educacion sexual, esta empezando a hablar sobre sexo,
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it's beginning to look at why it would be wrong
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esta revisando por que es algo malo
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for a young high school girl to talk about her vagina publicly
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que una joven de escuela secundaria hable de su vagina en publico
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or to say that she loved her vagina publicly.
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o diga publicamente que ella ama su vagina.
08:05
I know I've talked about Agnes here before,
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Se que he hablado de Agnes aqui antes,
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but I want to give you an update on Agnes.
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pero quiero darles una actualizacion sobre la situacion de Agnes.
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I met Agnes three years ago in the Rift Valley.
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Conoci a Agnes hace tres anos en el Valle Rift.
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When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will.
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Cuando era una jovencita, fue mutilada en contra de su voluntad.
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That mutilation of her clitoris
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La mutilacion de su clitoris
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had actually obviously impacted her life
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obviamente tuvo un impacto en su vida
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and changed it in a way that was devastating.
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y la cambio de una manera devastadora.
08:25
She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard,
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Ella tomo la decision de no tomar una rasuradora o un pedazo de vidrio,
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but to devote her life to stopping that happening to other girls.
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sino dedicar su vida a detener lo que estaba sucediendo a otras jovenes.
08:33
For eight years, she walked through the Rift Valley.
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Durante ocho anos, ella camino por el Valle Rift.
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She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a
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Llevaba consigo esta sorprendente caja donde tenía
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torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso,
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el torso del cuerpo de una mujer, la mitad del torso,
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and she would teach people, everywhere she went,
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y ella ensenaba a todas las personas, dondequiera que fuera,
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what a healthy vagina looked like and what a mutilated vagina looked like.
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como lucia una vagina saludable y como era una vagina mutilada.
08:46
In the years that she walked, she educated parents, mothers, fathers.
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Durante los anos en que camino educo a padres, madres,
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She saved 1,500 girls from being cut.
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salvo a 1.500 jovenes de ser cortadas.
08:53
When V-Day met her, we asked her how we could support her
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Cuando las del Dia-V la conocimos, le preguntamos como la podiamos ayudar
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and she said, "Well, if you got me a Jeep,
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y ella dijo "Bueno, si me consigues un Jeep,
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I could get around a lot faster." So, we bought her a Jeep.
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podria andar mucho mas rapido". Entonces, le compramos un Jeep.
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In the year she had the Jeep, she saved 4,500 girls from being cut.
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Y durante el ano en que tuvo el Jeep, salvo a 4.500 jovenes de ser cortadas.
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So, we said, what else could we do?
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Entonces, dijimos, que mas podemos hacer?
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She said, "If you help me get money, I could open a house."
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Ella contesto "Si me ayudan a conseguir dinero, podria abrir una casa".
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Three years ago, Agnes opened a safe house in Africa to stop mutilation.
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Hace tres anos, Agnes inauguro una casa segura en Africa para detener la mutilacion.
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When she began her mission eight years ago, she was reviled,
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Cuando comenzo su mision, hace ocho anos, fue injuriada,
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she was detested, she was completely slandered in her community.
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fue detestada, completame calumniada en su comunidad.
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I am proud to tell you that six months ago,
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Orgullosamente, les anuncio, que hace seis meses,
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she was elected the deputy mayor of Narok.
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fue elegida Vicealcaldesa de Narok.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
09:37
I think what I'm trying to say here
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Creo que lo que estoy tratando de decir,
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is that if your end goal is security,
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es que si tu meta final es la seguridad,
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and if that's all you're focusing on, what ends up happening
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y eso es todo en lo que centras tu atencion, lo que finalmente ocurre,
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is that you create not only more insecurity in other people,
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es que no solo creas mas inseguridad entre la gente,
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but you make yourself far more insecure.
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pero te haces a ti mismo mucho mas inseguro.
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
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La seguridad real es contemplar la muerte, no pretender que no existe.
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Not running from loss, but entering grief, surrendering to sorrow.
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No escapar de las perdida, pero aceptar el duelo, rendirse ante el dolor.
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Real security is not knowing something, when you don't know it.
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La seguridad real es no saber algo cuando no lo sabes.
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Real security is hungering for connection rather than power.
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La real seguridad es ansiar conexion en vez de poder.
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It cannot be bought or arranged or made with bombs.
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No puede ser comprada, negociada o conseguida con bombas.
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It is deeper, it is a process, it is acute awareness
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Es mas profunda, es un proceso, es la certeza clara
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that we are all utterly inter-bended,
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de que estamos todos profundamente interconectados,
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and one action by one being in one tiny town
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y que la accion de una persona en una pequena localidad
10:22
has consequences everywhere.
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tiene consecuencias en todo el mundo.
10:25
Real security is not only being able
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Seguridad real no es solamente ser capaz
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to tolerate mystery, complexity, ambiguity, but hungering for them
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de tolerar y buscar misterio, complexidad, ambiguedad,
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and only trusting a situation when they are present.
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y solo creer en una situacion cuando estan presentes.
10:34
Something happened when I began traveling in V-Day, eight years ago. I got lost.
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Algo sucedio cuando comence a viajar por Dia-V hace ocho anos. Me perdi.
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I remember being on a plane going from Kenya to South Africa,
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Recuerdo que me encontraba en un avion de Kenia a Sudafrica,
10:45
and I had no idea where I was.
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y no tenia idea de donde me encontraba
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I didn't know where I was going, where I'd come from,
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No sabia a donde iba, de donde venia,
10:49
and I panicked. I had a total anxiety attack.
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y entre en panico, tuve una ataque de ansiedad.
10:52
And then I suddenly realized that it absolutely didn't matter
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Hasta que me di cuenta de que no tenia absolutamente ninguna importancia
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where I was going, or where I had come from
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hacia donde me dirigia, o de donde venia
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because we are all essentially permanently displaced people.
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proque esencialmente, somos todos personas permanentemente fuera de lugar
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All of us are refugees.
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Todos somos refugiados
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We come from somewhere and we are hopefully traveling all the time,
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Venimos de algun lado y viajamos esperanzados todo el tiempo,
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moving towards a new place.
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moviendonos hacia un nuevo lugar.
11:09
Freedom means I may not be identified as any one group,
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Libertad significa que no sere identificada con un solo grupo,
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but that I can visit and find myself in every group.
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sino que yo puedo visitar y encontrarme a mi misma en cada grupo.
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It does not mean that I don't have values or beliefs,
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No significa que no tengo valores o creencias,
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but it does mean I am not hardened around them.
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pero significa que no estoy insensibilizada por ellas.
11:22
I do not use them as weapons.
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Que no las uso como armas.
11:25
In the shared future, it will be just that, shared.
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El futuro compartido, sera justo eso, compartido.
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The end goal will [be] becoming vulnerable,
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La meta final sera hacerse vulnerable,
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realizing the place of our connection to one another,
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comprendiendo el lugar de nuestra conexion con otros,
11:35
rather than becoming secure, in control and alone.
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en vez de encontrarse seguros, en control y solos.
11:40
Thank you very much.
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Muchas gracias.
11:42
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
11:45
Chris Anderson: And how are you doing? Are you exhausted?
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Como estas? Estas exhausta?
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On a typical day, do you wake up with hope or gloom?
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En un dia comun, te despiertas con esperanza o tristeza?
11:54
Eve Ensler: You know, I think Carl Jung once said
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Sabes, creo que Carl Jung dijo una vez
11:56
that in order to survive the twentieth century,
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que para sobrevivir en el siglo 20,
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we have to live with two existing thoughts, opposite thoughts, at the same time.
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tenemos que vivir con dos pensamientos opuestos, al mismo tiempo.
12:03
And I think part of what I'm learning in this process
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Y creo que parte de lo que estoy aprendiendo en este proceso,
12:07
is that one must allow oneself to feel grief.
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es que uno debe permitirse el sentir dolor.
12:11
And I think as long as I keep grieving, and weeping,
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Y creo que mientras siga sintiendo el dolor y llorando,
12:14
and then moving on, I'm fine.
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y luego siguiendo adelante, estoy bien.
12:16
When I start to pretend that what I'm seeing isn't impacting me,
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Cuando comience a fingir que lo que veo no me impacta,
12:20
and isn't changing my heart, then I get in trouble.
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y no cambia mi corazon, entonces me meto en problemas,
12:24
Because when you spend a lot of time going from place to place,
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porque cuando pasas mucho tiempo viajando de un lugar a otro,
12:28
country to country, and city to city,
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pais a pais, ciudad a ciudad
12:30
the degree to which women, for example, are violated,
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el grado al que las mujeres, por ejemplo, son violadas,
12:33
and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it,
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y la epidemia que es, y lo casi comun que es,
12:37
is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time,
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es tan devastador para el alma que tienes que tomarte el tiempo,
12:42
or I have to take the time now, to process that.
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o tengo que tomarme el tiempo ahora, para procesarlo.
12:45
CA: There are a lot of causes out there in the world that have been talked about,
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Hablamos acerca de numerosas causas en el mundo,
12:49
you know, poverty, sickness and so on. You spent eight years on this one.
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tu sabes: pobreza, enfermedades y otras, tu invertiste ocho anos en esta.
12:54
Why this one?
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Por que esta en particular?
12:56
EE: I think that if you think about women,
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Creo que, si piensas en las mujeres,
12:58
women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth,
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mujeres son el recurso primario de este planeta, ellas dan la vida,
13:03
we come from them, they are mothers, they are visionaries,
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venimos de ellas, son madres, visionarias,
13:06
they are the future. If you think that the U.N. now says
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son el futuro. Si piensas que las Naciones Unidas ahora dicen
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that one out of three women on the planet
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que una de cada tres mujeres en el planeta
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will be raped or beaten in their lifetime,
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sera violadas o golpeadas en el transcurso de su vida,
13:14
we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet,
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estamos hablando de la profanacion del recurso primario del planeta,
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we're talking about the place where we come from, we're talking about parenting.
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estamos hablando del lugar de donde venimos, hablamos de la crianza de los hijos.
13:21
Imagine that you've been raped and you're bringing up a boy child.
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Imaginate que has sido violada y ahora estas criando a un nino.
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How does it impact your ability to work, or envision a future,
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Como impacta tu capacidad de trabajar o ver un futuro,
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or thrive, as opposed to just survive? What I believe is
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o prosperar en vez de solo sobrevivir? Lo que creo es
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if we could figure out how to make women safe and honor women,
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que si podemos lograr honrar a las mujeres y hacer que esten seguras,
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it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
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seria como honrar la vida misma.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eve Ensler - Playwright, activistEve Ensler created the ground-breaking "Vagina Monologues," whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere.
Why you should listen
Inspired by intimate conversations with friends, Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues. The play recounts tender, funny, gripping and horrifying stories she gathered from hundreds of women about their bodies, their sexual experiences, and yes, their vaginas. Since its first staging in 1996, it has been translated into more than 45 languages, performed in more than 120 countries and re-created as an HBO film.
The Vagina Monologues' success allowed Ensler to create V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, which has so far raised $85 million to prevent violence and protect abused women. In February 2011, Ensler received the Isabelle Stephenson Tony Award for her philanthropic work. Ensler has also drawn praise for The Good Body, a play that cuts to women's obsession with their appearance, and her film What I Want My Words to Do to You, which portrays a writing group she leads at a correctional facility for women. Today, she continues to find new projects and push the envelope. Her latest play, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, hit the New York Times bestseller list and just wrapped a workshop production in Johannesburg -- nest stop is Paris and then Berkeley in June 2012.
Eve Ensler | Speaker | TED.com