Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2020-02-18.htm
Date Written: 2020-02-18
Publisher: Connexions
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX24022
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
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Contents:
Taking a Stand
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The military's carbon bootprint
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Website of the Week: Unist'ot'en - http://unistoten.camp/
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