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The struggle for the survival of tribal people and the struggle for sustainability of the people living in western society are deeply connected, and is by no means a lost fight. Now is the time to do something for those millions living around the world who are still rooted to the earth and can provide a mirror for our own healing. I believe that stopping the obvious, horrific violation of inalienable rights of these people is inseparable with putting to question our own culture of exponential growth. We cannot grow beyond the equilibrium with earth's resources, and we cannot grow at the expense of other people's suffering.
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Instead of imposing on tribal peoples modern offices, modern schools and modern superstores, we should learn from their reverence for nature, their lack of sentimental hypocrisy, their ancient wisdom, their physical and moral strength. We are uncompromisingly on the side of peoples who resist the forces of 'civilisation' which have for centuries corrupted our own world. Their struggles have become ours, too.
— friends of Peoples close to Nature (fPcN), Indigenous rights organization
The human condition is about poverty, injustice, exploitation, war, suffering. To seek the human condition one must go... to the barios, shanty towns, and palatial mansions of Rio, Lima, and Mexico City, where massive inequalities of wealth and power have produced fabulous abudance for some and misery for most. When anthropologists look at hunter-gatherers they are seeking something else: a vision of human life and human possibilities without the pomp and glory, but also without the misery and inequity of state and class society.
— Richard Borshay Lee, Canadian anthropologist
Check out the documentary EndCiv:
END:CIV is a film that examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.
Please visit: http://endciv.com
