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Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts

2.22.2017

Standing Rock update: I am not here for Native rights. I am not here.......

Standing Rock update: I am not here for Native rights. I am not here for treaty rights. That's far too little far too late. I'm here for human rights. Any of us that are fighting for anything other than human rights and maybe creation rights, but that's probably a strategic non-starter that is too esoteric, anyone that is not fighting for human rights in whatever arena is strategically wasting their time. Am I against native rights? Am I against treaty rights? Of course not! Am I against the right of children and current citizens to clean water? Of course I'm not. But for us to put these fragmented issues front and center is way too little way too late. Human rights is what we morally need to be fighting for and strategically if we did that paying a big enough price people might begin to understand that there is only one set of Human Rights and the people receiving the least are receiving what we all can expect in the future.

11.10.2015

***** When the last Palestinian rights are finally destroyed, once and for all, your human rights will have been totally destroyed as well......

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***** Covertly or overtly they were neglect to not band together to stand up for each other's rights to whatever degree was necessary. This is the problem with Palestine and we Americans. Until it is way too late......

***** Covertly or overtly they were neglect to not band together to stand up for each other's rights to whatever degree was necessary. This is the problem with Palestine and we Americans. Until it is way too late we will not face the fact that there is only one set of human rights, the human rights that apply to all of us and therefore are defended by all of us. We are allowing those human rights in the final stages of destruction in Palestine. When we finally look up the human rights of us all will be nothing but feces at our feet. Or rather, choking our throats.

3.01.2015

***** nd. In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delustion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.

In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone.  I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this.  Little could be more objectively obvious.  So why has it taken me so long?  Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delusion, on this point.  In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged.  And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth.  Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly.  As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak....  In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers .  America, our chickens are coming home to roost.