Environment

As the global financial crisis now enters its seventh year, it is time to start asking difficult questions about the right priorities for popular protest if we want to realise a truly united voice of the world’s people. There can be no revolution in a truly moral or global sense until the critical needs of the extreme poor are prioritised and upheld, which will require mass mobilisations in the streets like we have never seen before.

あなたと私は、私たちが世界の問題の原因だと非難するシステム自体を構成しています。私たちがクリスマスにイエスの名の下弱った地球からショッピング街で消費という略奪を行うとき、それはあからさまに実証されます。今年、キリストの誕生を祝うために自由と正義の旗の下で結束し、世界中の飢餓と貧困をなくすために平和的なデモンストレーションをするより他に良い方法があるでしょうか。

You and I constitute the very system that we blame for the world’s problems, which is starkly illustrated at Christmas when we rob our fragile earth on the high streets in the name of Jesus. What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ this year than to unite under the banner of freedom and justice, and peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world.

私たちに豊かさの中で永続する飢餓という犯罪を止めることに関心があるなら、自分たちの行動を自国やコミュニティのレベルに制限することはできません。むしろ食べ物の分ち合いを世界的な観点から、そして何よりも、飢餓を終わらせるための政治との関係から考えるべきでしょう。

If we are concerned about stopping the enduring crime of starvation amidst plenty, we cannot restrict our actions to the level of our own country or community. We should rather think about sharing food in global terms and, above all, in relation to the politics of ending hunger.

The idea of sharing food has taken root in recent years as a response to our broken food systems, but does it make sense to talk about food sharing on a global basis? Perhaps it does, as long as we advocate a true form of economic sharing that addresses the power structures and politics underlying our unjust globalised food economy.