Dear Subscribers,
This is a fairly lengthy post (500 lines), but this interview of Vandana Shiva by Geov Parrish is very good. Both he and she, with remarkable clarity, show the need for a renewed "living democracy." There is this growing sense of concentrating our dissident energies to our particular communities, "localization" in opposition to the neo-liberal agenda that's come home to almost every community in the north. This comes across in very clear terms in this interview.... "One of the things that has given me a lot of hope lately is the
inability of governments to withstand popular outrage - Bolivia, Argentina,
Venezuela. People in the U.S.'s (and Canada's) reactions are very far
behind where people in the rest of the world already are. There's a lot
that can be learned, and some of those links are being made now." --VS This makes it pretty clear that we all should be taking our cue and raise the call that the Bolivians, Venezuelans and all in the global south are making in taking back their water...their streets and maintaining a dignity that many of us in the global north have been blindfolded to hold on to in the disgustingly dominent consumer culture.
This is a real good read....apologies for x- postings... salud, tc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:51:29 -0400
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=13698&CFID=2433716&CFTOKE N=38443462
A moment of deep hope An interview with Vandana Shiva
Geov Parrish WorkingForChange 08.19.02 <snip>