in total agreement the problem lies with neo liberal paradigm. my discusison over skype yesterday
I think the time has come to talk about just growth, and not just broad based growth. What is the concept of Just Growth? Just growth is when those living under $<2 per day grow faster than those above $>2 per day. This could include blacks in south Africa and Brazil, dalits, adivasis and unorganised workers and a section of Muslims in India, migrants in India and China etc. Within these groups women need to grow faster than men. Otherwise there is a danger of increase in conflicts, crimes and farmer suicides, and decline in sex ratio at birth and child sex ratio. If one were to straddle this path one has to shift from talking about Corporate Social responsibility to Just Corporatship (that is corporate practices should be just, and not further marginalise those under $<2 or sell products that eliminate girls), from citizen participation to Just Citizenship (high time for an income and asset ceiling till equality is achieved in each country), from 'governance' reforms to Just governance by state, donors, World Bank, IMF and WTO. It is time to work with patriarchy as it plays out, work with men/boys and women/girls who hold patriarchal values. Similarly for race, caste and homophobic divides. Let the countries that have followed just pathways govern these inter state organisations (but not because they have unlimited resources) or let there be separate electorate for those <$2 per day in each country and based on $<2 per day population the inter-state organisations are restructured. There needs to be right to land in rural areas, with land being a state property and leased to families, with government stating how much percentage for food crops, cash crops and other purposes. No agriculture land or common property resources can be converted any more and land converted after 1990 (when USSR collapsed) should be given back to rural landless. . Social engineering is required with dalits, blacks, muslims in India brought into main village, and slum dwellers and migrants into main streets. The same housing, education, child care, laundry and water needs to be given. Infact time is right to question the neo liberal paradigm itself. Yes, communism has not worked, but neither has unfettered capitalism. The concept of nation state is after all few hundred years old. Is it just that people use saloons for pets in US while poor farmers commit suicide in India? Is it just that there are billionaires and very poor in Brazil, South Africa, Russia, China and India, while there are some living on pavements? Put a ceiling on asset/income ownership, so that the elite leave and become marginal citizens elsewehre We have to stop and challenge this paradigm - combine human development, human rights with human justice. Pathways to justice need to hit our upper middle/upper class's bellies. In fact this section should experience negative growth then only the poor can experience positive ones . What would Paulo Friere, Andre Gunder Frank, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Lohiya, Marx, Periyar, Kartini, Phule, have said today? What does Mandela think? Ranjani Kamala Murthy --- On Mon, 25/4/11, Niloufer Bhagwat <[email protected]> wrote: From: Niloufer Bhagwat <[email protected]> Subject: [humanrights-movement:4190] To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 April, 2011, 6:29 PM While focusing on Human Rights violations as witnessed from region to region and the brutal crack down on movements raising questions on the plunder and devastation of habitat of the Indigenous people by mining and other companies which led to the incarceration and unjust prosecution of Dr.Binayak Sen among hundreds of other and in the context of movements like at Jaitapur among others;the attached article by Professor Claudia Von Werlhof is relevant for an understanding of the backdrop to the contemporary situation,though we may disagree on details of conclusions the broad picture is relevant . Even while focusing attention on human rights violations it is necessary to understand the reason for large scale violations from one society to another with the backdrop of the global economic crisis .What are the dimensions of this crisis which has resulted in large scale violations of human rights. The scale of predatory human right violations all over the world and of whole societies through war and occupation has led to recolonization and an internal colonization of resources of indigenous and other groups , posing a civilizational crisis of widespread impact even as Para military outfits are used for seizure of resources with war used as a legitimate instrument including by the Security Council which has itself torn up the UN Charter for internal interference in the affairs of other sovereign states dictated by the policy of Oil Corporations , Mineral Companies among others for the pillage of resources . 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