"We have less work to do in imagining new rights and more in remembering rights--and duties--that we've had in the past.
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"We have less work to do in imagining new rights and more in remembering rights--and duties--that we've had in the past.
There's a lot we can learn from Indigenous communities who have withstood the test of time and oppression... who have created ways of being that ensure a quality of life for us as humans & our environment.
That is what human rights are about. They're about us having a better quality of relationship between each other and with the world around us."
Ketti Nivyabandi
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this is from a CBC Ideas podcast panel on imagining the UN Declaration of Human Rights into the future. Provocatively, Nivyabandi says once we've had to write down our rights, it means we've failed culturally to create societies which self reinforce collective quality of life. The panel is well worth listening to, and also features Astra Taylor and Lindsey Burrows
UN's Declaration of Human Rights is over 75 years old — time for a refresh | CBC Radio
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says we have the right to “life, liberty, and security of the person.” But how well are we doing at establishing that right? In a five-part series, IDEAS explores the protections promised in this 75 year-old document and asks what rights we need to add for the future.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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Many of us agree we don't want to be policed by militarized and traumatized humans operating to enforce a white supremacist police state, on our streets (or on fedi lol)
but as so many people i respect have pointed out, we have atrophied our practices for upholding collective wellbeing without enforcement. many of us cannot even imagine life without policing, in a literal or figurative way.
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this is (again) what i mean by #SocialTech...
we have to work on remembering and recreating ways of being (social patterns, structures, practices and behaviors) that maintain our collective wellbeing, quality of life, dignity, inherent humanity, etc.
this is a REALLY different paradigm and we cannot legislate it into existence. we have to start practicing and trying in our current relationships and communities