American Provincialism Vs. Translocalism
Americans love to eat other cultures food, but when it comes to trying to understand geopolitics, much less engage in solidarity with oppressed people the world over, we fail.
All to often, American's only think of ourselves. We spend endless amounts of energy focusing on our own culture, political issues, and cultural productions. Even in allegedly political circles a strange parochialism persists.
How much stronger would U.S. social movements be if we engaged in regular dialog with translocal initiatives--the Zapatistas, the Korean Anarchist Movement, Irish Nationalists, Indigenous people in struggle throughout the world all connected directly with projects in our own communities.
Monolingualism and a profound lack of curiosity are dooming the bulk of the U.S. public. Immigrants are some of the few people in the United States who still have the ability to frame the debate beyond a narrow-minded patriotism and a naive self-obsession. Multilingual indigenous people and immigrants and from African, Asian, and Latin diasporas all present unique opportunities for people in the United States to connect to struggles beyond those presented in our Capitalist media.
Progressives and progressive media are guilty of xenophobia, racism, and parochialism as much as anybody. Until we resolve to erase the borders from our mind and broaden our political, cultural, and social interests while investing in our local communities, the United States will continue to stomp about the earth ignorant and hostile, lost in its own narcissism, wasteful, and destroying the possibility of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Only through a significant investment in face-to-face interaction within our own neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and streets coupled with a strong urge to network our localisms with others throughout the world can we create an alternative globalization that can over-through neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Liberating ourselves will require both local and global investments, networks, and projects entirely autonomous and hostile towards oppressive systems.
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Translocalism
We got problems here that need to be solved.
Let's Begin make solutions....
First let's all agree to a change is needed, and what is the best way to reach a resolution by all parties.
Forget apologies that never amounts to anything.
Began education at home with children and see to it that schools teach the right thing about people. By including the people which are oppressed or repressed, in the decision regarding their culture and Identity. This will close the door on self-serving agendas.
Provide opportunities or accept the opportunities provided from some creativity instead of ignoring the unlimited possibilities. Most oppressed and repressed people are brillant with creating something out of nothing. They have not been indoctrinated to think one way.
Remove the central bank and then the people that are oppressed and repress by these bad regimes, can now control their own resources and create wealth.
Each village or community should make it laws the same as the constitution nothing more nothing less. That will keep thing balanced.
If the village or community invest in something it has to be within that environment not another state or country.
example..Invest in farm equipment and choose in your environment someone who will grow crop and use that to sustain the families in that village or community. Do not sale your food to another state but you can with another country, as a form of revenue or barter for something needed by the people in your environment.
These are some of the solutions which will help oppressed and repressed people out of proverty to controlling their lives and getting the upmost out of this earth.
Choctaw American