Chapter 5: The Congress of the Global South

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******************************************************** ******************************************************** ****************Produced by Brandon Isbell**************** ******Written & co-produced by Joshua David McLerran****** ************Recorded at AMR.FM, Salt Lake City************ ******************************************************** ******************************************************** |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| –––––––––– Find out more at http://www.radiofortheblind.com ––––––––– |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| It is better to be on the bottom of a ladder one wishes to climb than in the middle or top of a ladder one does not wish to climb. CHAPTER 5: THE CONGRESS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH We propose that the Time has now come to create an intercontinental congress that represents the gathered interests of the People of the Global South. We propose that the governing agents on this planet have become a means to represent the interests of those who would tell us what to do, what to believe, what to need, and what to buy. We may recognize these existing governments within their several forums, senates, parliaments, congresses, and the like; and in these forums, We may tell them what it is that We will do. We will not ask for their opinions to aid Us in our decisions, for We recognize that they do not represent Us, but themselves (though they are welcome to join Us in our cause). We will abstain from violence at all costs, for We recognize that violence is a methodology that will just engender fear. If one Life is lost in the process of securing for ourselves a balanced World, it is a tragedy that goes beyond compare, for it will be a Life that We have lost from our own ranks, for We recognize Humanity as one and We will not take a Life ourselves. The change in the world that We seek begins in our hearts, not in our governments. It extends from there into our thoughts, our words, and our actions. We decide our own fates and We build for ourselves what will become for Us our individual futures. These individual futures become Society’s future, therefore it is something that We build together, both individually and symbiotically. We have been kept enslaved without the actuality of chains for so long now that we have come to recognize it as a normal way of life. Be assured, the definition of a normal way of Life is a varying one, and the variations are tremendous by degree. Those who oppose Us will only do so temporarily, for there are many who are ignorant of the many sufferings in our species. We must Love and educate to remedy this ignorance, recognizing that it lies in all our hands to choose. We see the world from the People’s view, from the trenches, from the ditches, from the dirt; and from the dirt, it is apparent that we are here to keep the many others who would maintain a guise of cleanliness from ever lying down themselves. Consider further how the poor are perpetually downtrodden beneath the eager feet of commerce. It is easy to see that the more money one has in this environment, the less that person will have to pay. The examples are unending: From higher interest rates to those who have small funds, to shampoos that cost less if bought in bulk to houses that are sold for less if bought in cash outright. The more affluent one is, the less everything will cost. This system is deplorable and it is wrong. We propose therefore to build a Global Buy List that will encourage commerce only with the companies of the world that make their pecuniary actions transparent and are doing what they may to combat the pestilence of poverty within their own specific realms of influence. Finish reading this chapter by purchasing the book from RadiofortheBlind.com... http://www.radiofortheblind.com/buy-support