[Colonialism Reparation] Newsletter 09/16

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Call for the International day for reparations

On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus set foot on the so called "New World", ushering in a cycle of occupation, violence, genocide and slavery: this was the beginning of colonization.

Colonization is a global phenomenon: there is hardly a country in the world that has not been colonized, a colonizer, or both, such as the United States. Colonization is one of the phenomena that has most disrupted humanity. It has left a deep and lasting impression on all continents and the consequences of this are:...

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Reparations to Haiti

 

On August 18, 2016 is disclosed by the press the Report on the responsibility of the United Nations in relation to cholera in Haiti of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights of the United Nations (UN) Philip Alston, then officially published on August 26, 2016, which claims that "the United Nations clearly was responsible and it must now act accordingly" and will be discussed during the 71st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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The end of the Empire

The leaders of the G20 gathered for the first time in China to Hangzhou on September 4 and 5. About the summit we propose you two articles by Pepe Escobar, one previous: “The G20 Meets in Tech Hub Hangzhou, China, At an Extremely Tense Geopolitical

“...Shuttling between the West and Asia, one can glimpse, in myriad forms, the graphic contrast between paralysis and paranoia and an immensely ambitious $1.4 trillion project potentially touching 64 nations, no less than 4.4 billion people and around 40 per cent of the global economy which will, among other features, create new “innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive” trade horizons and arguably install a post-geopolitics win-win era.”...

and one written immediately after: “Made in China G20 and its geoeconomic significance”.

“... The Beijing leadership is totally committed to OBOR as the ultimate geoeconomic transformative drive in Asia-Pacific, tying most of Asia to China – and to Europe; and all of this of course totally intertwined with Xi’s turbo-charged reinterpretation of globalization. That’s why I argue that this is the most overreaching project for the young 21st century: the competing “project” by the US is more of the chaotic same. “ ...

 
 
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