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Ursula Franklin
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We are being occupied by the marketeers as the French and Norwegians were occupied by the Germans. We have, as they did, puppet governments who run the country for the benefit of the occupiers....
One of the things that anyone who has lived under a military occupation will tell you is that the resistors often refused to speak the language of the occupier.... We too should refuse to speak the language of the occupier i.e. the language of the market. It’s a language that reflects, as all languages do, the moral values of those who speak. For the marketeers, there are only economic values – whatever cannot be bought and sold, is not of value.
One path of resistance is to refuse to communicate in the language of the occupier. So don’t talk about ‘stakeholders’ and ‘users’, ‘healthcare providers’ or ‘consumers of education’. For us, they are our ‘teachers’ and ‘students’, ‘doctors’ and ‘nurses’, ‘patients’ and ‘communities’; they are our ‘families’ and ‘friends’.
- Ursula Franklin
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