Naomi Klein in Seattle: “One of the most exciting parts of the emergence of this fossil fuel resistance…is the way in which it is building really powerful ties between non-Native and Native communities. Whenever there’s a big resource battle we see these connections, but there’s something new happening. We saw this really clearly with the emergence of Idle No More, and all these resistance movements—whether it’s to the Cherry Point coal export terminal, or the Northern Gateway pipeline through B.C. I think what more and more of us are starting to understand is that Indigenous First Nations, treaty rights, and aboriginal title, are the most powerful legal barrier to the plans to just flay this continent. And those rights become more powerful when there are mass movements defending them, and when they are embraced by whole societies…I think it’s actually changing the way we think, as well as the way we fight. It has to be more than an extractive relationship to those rights: ‘those rights are useful to us, because they help us protect our water, so we want to use those rights’—that’s exactly the wrong way of thinking about this. These are rights that come out of a vision of how to live well, that were hard-won and hard-protected, and they point us towards a nonextractive regeneration-based way of living on this planet. That is the most hopeful and exciting part of this new wave of activism.” Naomi Klein’s presentation on her new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, at Town Hall Seattle (Sept. 28, 2014). 1:09 includes talk and Q&A. https://youtube/watch?v=4b2B-ys3N1o
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:40:51 +0000
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