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I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don't really need whole destroying what we do
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
A central message is we cannot keep extracting from the earth energy systems for the profit and short-term gain of the predatory elite. Mother Earth needs the love and care of people to maintain Country, Living Waters, and multispecies justice. The sustainability of all life in our universe requires implementing Indigenous traditional knowledge and
... See moreGreg Campbell • Total Reset: Realigning with our timeless holistic blueprint for living
Indigenous people did not despise wage labour primarily because of the effort that it entailed. Rather, they thought the work demanded by capitalists stripped life of its humanity.”
Erin Remblance • How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?
I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth
... See moreJohn G. Neihardt • Black Elk Speaks
That one of the most impoverished communities in the Americas would refuse a billion dollars demonstrates the relevance and significance of the land to the Sioux, not as an economic resource but as a relationship between people and place, a profound feature of the resilience of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
At New Almaden we can see the steps in the proletarianization dance: the alienation of indigenous and peasant populations from the land, the formal establishment of white racial rule, scientific management continually optimizing for maximum profits, looming soldiers. It all adds up to a laboring class with no legal way to reproduce their lives
... See moreMalcolm Harris • Palo Alto
Like many North American peoples of his time, Kandiaronk’s Wendat nation saw their society as a confederation created by conscious agreement; agreements open to continual renegotiation.