Author: Yvonne Aburrow

Dreaming of change

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Changing Paths challenge day 8: dreams

The world is dreaming of alternatives to capitalism and colonialism.

The student encampments are temporary autonomous zones (TAZs) where students are demonstrating alternative ways to live: that people from different backgrounds and religions can live side by side, and cooperate. If we want to move away from capitalism, colonialism and the dogma of perpetual growth and exploitation, we need to start creating alternative ways to live. The cooperative movement is an excellent example of this principle, as are Hakim Bey’s ideas of the temporary autonomous zone, and the successful anarchist movements and villages.

Change

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Changing Paths challenge day 7: Change

Most people do not cope well with change, especially if it involves loss or destruction of their former way of life. It is hard for people with privilege to imagine losing more than one person in your family or friends group at a time: imagine losing all of them at once, and your home as well, your entire way of life, and the destruction of your environment. That’s what is happening in G a z a, but also to Sudan and the Congo, the eastern part of Ukraine, uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, Indigenous African communities displaced by greenwashing conservation (see @survivalinternational), and more.

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Nature

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Changing Paths challenge day 4: Nature. 💚🌿

Many years ago, when I was a child, I was told that the Israeli settlers had planted trees in the desert and made Israel greener. I was told this at an event organized by evangelical Christians. This shows the prevalence of Zionism among evangelical Christians. (1)

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