Monday, September 15, 2003

House of One People Campus Monday, September 15th, 2003 Today in history: The over-developed world is hearing the voice of the underdevloped world after the leaders of underdeveloped nations this weekend walked out of the World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun, Mexico. The disparity in their position was perhaps as stark as the disparity between the lifestyles of the guests at Cancun's posh tourist resorts and the "life" style of the Cancun people routinely excluded from, and punished because of, these resorts. The trade ministers who walked out of the WTO talks sent a poignant message to the businessmen and women of the elite institutions of money: enough is enough. Hunger, poverty, disease, pollution, discrimination are the by-products that the WTO has served on the world's underdeveloped nations, and the WTO ministers stood their ground in pursuit of equitable, instead of predatory, subsidies on international trade. Outside the meetings, tens of thousands of protesters celebrated. Circa some 40 years ago, four young black women were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, somewhere in the south of the United States. The world has learned that the government of Israel has proclaimed its interest in assassinating Yassar Arafat, the Head of State of the Palestinian Authority. A coup has taken place in Gunea Bissau, a tiny West African nation -- pillaged by the west for its raw materials -- that is in perpetual media whiteout. The Mugabe government in Zimbabwe over the weekend promulgated yet another executive military decree instituting further censorship and restrictions against the free press in Zimbabwe. Contrary to the opinion of uninformed political analysts and activists whom have taken to the airwaves and pages of newspapers duly criticizing Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, there is no interest in the Mugabe government in a true redistribution of land -- said to be the cause behind the recent press closures. Those people who attribute a conspiratorial bias to the western press for attacking Mugabe are correct in their assertions that the capitalist system does not want a redistribution of land -- the multinational agribusiness and elite white farmers being the greatest land usurpers -- but incorrect in their assertions that the Mugabe government, and Mugabe himself, is being punished for supporting the people. Land seizures by the Mugabe government have taken place under hostile conditions, but the land is redistributed to cronies of Mugabe and his party. The people have seen a lot of violence, and it is indelibly etched in their memory. Indeed, since coming to power in 1979 (de facto), the Mugabe government has perpetuated genocide on the Ndebele people. May all beings be happy. Brought to you by Peacemaker Circle International. 2:42:22 PM

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