Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
If ever you need to be reminded of the true power of your democratic right to speak, then listen to Chloe Swarbrick. If you have any integrity and conviction in your soul then you must be able to justify it openly, transparently and clearly in front of others. Justify yourself, and defend your position.
Chloe Swarbrick is very good at communicating the need to restore and protect the value of equity in democracy, in the context of colonialism and business-as-usual for the privileged few.
This is what is utterly lacking in those who inherit financial and political power without worrying themselves with the trouble of being held to account.
Consider the Democracy Index. You won't be surprised at many on this list.
https://lnkd.in/eRrDBbEZ
However, what this does not capture are those countries who convey the image of having a robust and fair system of governance, but who do not in fact promote the values of proportional representation and accountability.
Sustainable politics means building consensus amongst politicians and citizens. What we have in our UK, and what frighteningly we still have in the US is a representational democracy. Citizens feel that they engage with the system once every 4 years, and they're happy with this. The 'state' then is mandated to do the work, and can do it however it sees fit. It is simple, convenient and utterly meaningless. It discourages critical thinking across swathes of citizen consumers, promotes abject laziness in the design and delivery of sustainable policy and it perpetuates this system over generations.
Without people who really care being able to challenge and influence government, you get leaders who sound like (and perform like) robots. Trump is a particularly haywire one; a craziness magnet with the noses of profiteers up his backside. There are many as dangerous in their self-preservation.
There are solutions, but they require a system overhaul. Where is the appetite for that, when mainly angry, frightened and defensive people bother to vote? The lucky who have jobs, homes, education, food, health have no need to bother. Civilisation has grown too quickly with the comfort of selfishness at its core.
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
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"Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening" - Chico Mendes
So well said by NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick: Unequal treatment causes unequal outcomes.
Inequality, Ecology, and Capitalist imperialism are deeply connected. So who benefits, and who is paying the price?
The climate or ecological crisis is caused by the way our current system of production is organised. Capitalism is now organized (I belief there are different ways) in a way that it leads to the accumulation of wealth by a small group of people. Instead of focusing on meeting human needs and achieving ecological objectives.
The people who suffer the most from climate disasters are also the ones at the frontiers of extraction, those whose land has been taken and don’t have an economic democracy (even if they might have a political democracy). They are the ones not benefiting from our current systems of production.
So the question is here: Will we keep focusing on self-preservation, or can we start looking at ourselves with a critical eye?
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
More resistance from New Zealand Aotearoa.
There are more and more people that are recognizing the hold that our systems have on us is leading us away from solutions that benefit the whole.
But we have to see clearly what those systems are and how (and why) they have been established.
That is how we can resist effectively.
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
"This is about all of us" - "Are you here to hold on to power at any cost? Or are you here to do the right thing?"
Masterclass on Power in the service of others (21st Century leadership) over Power to self (20th Century leadership)...
Watch until the end and learn! Then you share!
#SpeakTruthToPower
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
The speech could be voiced across many countries where people are bring oppressed. It could apply to oppression within any environment and by any group that is being oppressed by another. We must all stand together when doing the right thing is better than following the status quo. Admitting the truth is part of a learning process as is accepting responsibility and being accountable. It is at the core of what drives progression and evolution. Food for thought. #diversityequalityinclusion#diversity#equalitymatters#discriminationisrealhttps://lnkd.in/eRGjvhfz
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
Speaker I Climate Entrepreneur I Founder & CEO of Creatives for Climate I University of Auckland 40 Under 40
Gosh, I am proud to be a kiwi - with strong grounding in anti-colonial education.
THIS is the conversation happening RIGHT NOW in New Zealand Aotearoa.
About the need to uphold and honour indigenous rights, and also, the direct link between capitalism and colonisation; and the need for the prevailing current economic system to continue to benefit from continued expansion at the sake of profit over people.
When will we truly understand that this is just one system; one mindset; one history - that offers us no solutions?
Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's confronting.
But oh gosh; it offers us so much!
The rights of indigenous peoples are under attack, everywhere.
NZ MP Chloe Swarbrick everyone 👇
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