Thursday, March 16, 2017

Memory, Fire and Hope: Five Lessons from Standing Rock

Click here to access article by Alnoor Ladha from Common Dreams

Although the other lessons are important, because of my website's theme I want to particularly focus your attention on the 5th lesson:
Although the various social movements around the world are portrayed as separate incidents that are particular to their local context, there is a growing awareness among movements themselves that we are uniting against the same antagonist: the deadly logic of late-stage capitalism.

Whether one is fighting for land rights in India or tax justice in Kenya or to stop a pipeline in the US, the ‘enemy’ is the same: a cannibalistic global economy that requires perpetual extraction, violence, oppression, in the service of GDP growth, which in turn, benefits a tiny elite at the expense of the world’s majority.