The world as we know it is entirely dependent on oppression: of the poor and the disenfranchised, of those whose bodies don't fit the prevailing cultural ideal, of those who suffer ill health including addictions, of women, of LGBTQI people, of those of different (usually darker) skin colour from those in power, of those who come from elsewhere, of those who speak differently, of those who worship differently, of those who learn differently.
The world as we know it is dependent on their oppression.
You can respond to this realisation by deciding that oppression is therefore necessary and just (and you can celebrate this decision or you can lament it).
Or you can decide that the world must change. And act.
[Joint statement] Laos: 11 years of government inaction on Sombath
Somphone’s enforced disappearance
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On the 11-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil
society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society
organizations and ...
4 months ago
Hear, hear!
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