[NYC-L] Long time

[Isa Blumi]

It's been a while Mentor,

Hope you are thriving. Where are you by the way? A
well stated response to my rant; although ceding
authority and creative liberty to ANY US PR firm
confuses marketing theory with realities. The story
cannot be put into sound-bit-sized phrases and it
cannot rely on the currents of power. When a PR is
hired, it must be dedicated to the cause. Current PR
firms have much bigger clients who are priorities. 

Any ways, pissing in the wind as far as I am
concerned. If you are in NYC, I will be down on June
12,13 and maybe 14 to pick my wife up from the
airport. Perhaps there is time for a meeting?

Best,

Isa


--- Mentor Cana <mentor at alb-net.com> wrote:

>           === NYC-L: New York City Discussion Forum
> ===
> 
> Dear Isa,
> 
> I carefully read this e-mail and needless to say I
> agree with your 
> assessment of the situation. Unfortunately, it is
> indeed true that MUCH more 
> can be done and it is not done in respects to the
> advocacy and the watchdog 
> function in the US and Western Europe. 
> 
> When hiring PR firms and organizing lobby groups it
> is often forgotten 
> that these non-Albanian PR firms and the
> non-Albanian lobby groups working 
> on behalf of the Albanian(s)/Kosova cause put the
> issues in the background 
> of a global socio-political-economic framework, and
> other issues that do 
> not necessarily concerned with the Albanian cause as
> the final result. 
> Thus, as a result the 'Albanian cause' usually
> becomes one piece of the 
> puzzle that is made to fit, often sacrificed,
> without the immediate concern 
> of the Albanian people and the Albanian cause. 
> 
> This is not to say that there are no PR firms and
> lobby groups that can 
> deliver. There certainly are. However, the goals and
> the means to 
> achieving these goals suggested by the PR firms do
> not necessarily mean 
> 'good' for the Albanians. 
> 
> It is certainly possible to organize a watchdog and
> advocacy effort 
> serving the Albanian cause, especially to address
> the point you mention 
> in your e-mail to rebuff the Serb/Green propaganda
> of falsehood. That such 
> activity can be successful it was demonstrated
> during the Kosova war with 
> (with limited scope) the cooperative activities of
> various independently 
> minded Albanians and friends of Albanians through
> the use of the Internet 
> and other traditional means of communication. Lesson
> learn: such activity 
> is possible when individuals get organized and work
> together to correct 
> historical mistakes, respond to false articles and
> other perverted media 
> discourses, alert to books full of falsehood, etc.,
> all of this without the 
> political or sectarian cloud. Short, the false
> Serb/Greek propaganda 
> needs to be dealt with for the sake of revealing the
> historical facts.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Mentor
> 


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