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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] 'celebrating' Grameen, Nobel, and capitalism
  • Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:26:55 -0500

kevin s wrote:

there is so much change under way in the world, good and bad. i have been involved a lot lately with solidarity work for oaxaca where the

Chiapas
Guatemala
in the past: Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Colombia
Burma
Tibet

people there are facing similar problems

Chile finally flushed its political toilet with the passing of Pinochet

old anticapitalist movement in mexico is being repressed in a new

Why is it called an anticapitalist movement? Why do the
leftists/socialists/marxists/communists have
to inject their political ideology into a stuggle of people in the throes of
trying to survive?
This only gives the thugs and death squads an opportunity to breed snitches
to turn in folks labeled
communist, same old scenario repeated over and over. Just call it a permaculture-based survival movement and let it go at that. Help these people learn to farm sustainably, build durable housing, generate their own power and utilize
appropriate technology resources. Don't make it easy for the thugs to villify and label those they are trying to repress. Time to wake up and smell, and drink, a good cup of coffee. Their goals must be accomplished using peaceful means.

dirty war. this is relevent - ( the new dirty war fueled by the same old US corporate interests)- because the struggle there is a representation of community self empowerment, using traditional indigenous models of political organizing and mutual aid,

The mainstream media is dominated by corporate interests
so people must be shown the path to alternate news and information resources.
At one time there was interest in this list in creating an online
permaculture relational database,
showing relationships between elements in a permaculture system. I had hoped
that this would become a global project
that would offer the opportunity for people to enter data from their own
bioregion for the benefit of others in that
part of the world and those elsewhere interested in learning from their work. Since that project seems to have e-vaporated maybe it is time to start a new online permaculture information resource, not using databases but
wikis, blogs, websites, webforums, distributed systems, linked components and similar software tools. Anyone interested in participating in the startup of something like this?


i mean, there are so many ways for poor people to re-gain self empowerment, is really becoming 'good little capitalists' (with or

What's wrong with being a capitalist? Calling someone a "good little
capitalist" is insulting and demeaning.
Teach them permaculture, farming and alternative energy and architecture and
forget the stinking politics.
I expect these people already know more about communalism, sharing and
cooperation than 49000 roiling, fevered
"leftists". They have been living that way for centuries and using a common
land ownership system.

traditional community structures are broken all over the world-and those that are left are resisting all over the world- and it is capitalism (colonialism,white supremacy, consumerism etc) that has broken them.

imho, in terms of ethics- zapatismo has a lot more in common with permaculture than the Grameen bank does.

Then enter into dialog with them and help them bring permaculture into their
lives.

i do have hope for permaculture as part of the solution for privileged industrialized people and those 'down below' alike. but i'm sorry i don't have hope for a permaculture 'movement' that indentifies more with 'lifestyle' liberal green consumerism, than it does with genuine social justice, local autonomy, and the like. (i'm not saying it does-but it feels that way at times)

Its all the same, an urban-surburban version, a farm version, a version for
the poor
who need help surviving.

LL
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