{"id":62768,"date":"2022-05-30T06:58:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62768"},"modified":"2022-05-30T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:58:50","slug":"the-struggle-for-whats-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62768","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle For What&#8217;s Essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_post_meta_wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/149357548.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-Josefina-Tunki-Protest-in-Quito-1080x675.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1080px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/149357548.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-Josefina-Tunki-Protest-in-Quito-980x555.jpeg 980w , https:\/\/149357548.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-Josefina-Tunki-Protest-in-Quito-480x272.jpeg 480w \" alt=\"The Struggle for What\u2019s Essential\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ft-img-caption\">President of the Pueblo Shuar Arutam of Ecuador, Josefina Tunki, during a protest along with other Shuar women. (Photo: Comunicaci\u00f3n PSHA)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fpif.org\/the-struggle-for-whats-essential\/\">THE STRUGGLE FOR WHAT\u2019S ESSENTIAL<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single-post-lede\"><strong>Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back \u2014 and sometimes winning.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote><p><i>Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0<em>Arundhati Roy, April 2020<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just over two years ago when lockdowns were being declared like dominoes around the world, there was a brief moment when the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to hold the potential for much-needed reflection. Could it lead to a reversal away from the profit-driven ecological and socio-economic dead end we\u2019ve been propelling toward?<\/p>\n<p>Arundhati Roy\u2019s call to critical reflection was published in early April 2020. At the time, she was observing the early evidence, on one hand, of the devastating toll of the pandemic as a result of extraordinary inequality, the privatized health care system, and the rule of big business in the U.S., which continued to\u00a0<a title=\"play out along lines of class and race\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poorpeoplescampaign.org\/pandemic-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">play out along lines of class and race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was also writing with horror at how the Modi government in India was enacting an untenable lockdown on a population of over a billion people without notice or planning, in a context of overlapping economic and political crises&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Pueblo Shuar Arutam of Ecuador, Josefina Tunki, during a protest along with other Shuar women. (Photo: Comunicaci\u00f3n PSHA) THE STRUGGLE FOR WHAT\u2019S ESSENTIAL Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back \u2014 and sometimes winning. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[7266,10346,338,30768,1482,657],"class_list":["post-62768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-foreign-policy-in-focus","tag-freedom","tag-jen-moore","tag-mining","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768\/revisions\/62769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}