State sanctioned power, often backed by militarized police, gives the illusion of seeming so absolute. State sanctioned power maintains its dominance by projecting the illusion that resistance is futile, that their agenda is “a done deal“. We know from experience, and from history, that grassroots resistance movements, on the part of peoples who have everything to lose, are not only effective in challenging the agendas of oppressive power, and bringing about needed change - they are perhaps the only thing that can succeed in doing this. I found Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything“, to be an inspiring documentation of the victories won by grassroots movements around the world, resisting industrial environmental destruction in their homelands. Here in British Columbia, Canada, people are going to jail for resisting the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to BC’s west coast. We’ve been resisting for 10 years. It’s half built. It’s taken many more years and billions of dollars more than they originally estimated. Will it ever be completed? We don’t know if we will succeed, but we will never stop resisting.
State sanctioned power, often backed by militarized police, gives the illusion of seeming so absolute. State sanctioned power maintains its dominance by projecting the illusion that resistance is futile, that their agenda is “a done deal“. We know from experience, and from history, that grassroots resistance movements, on the part of peoples who have everything to lose, are not only effective in challenging the agendas of oppressive power, and bringing about needed change - they are perhaps the only thing that can succeed in doing this. I found Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything“, to be an inspiring documentation of the victories won by grassroots movements around the world, resisting industrial environmental destruction in their homelands. Here in British Columbia, Canada, people are going to jail for resisting the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to BC’s west coast. We’ve been resisting for 10 years. It’s half built. It’s taken many more years and billions of dollars more than they originally estimated. Will it ever be completed? We don’t know if we will succeed, but we will never stop resisting.
That is super frustrating to see the narrative pushed by The Guardian on Golden Rice. Thank you for sharing that in this installment!