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Naomi Klein
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Naomi Klein

  • Eugenia
    Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Tagen
    Many of the crypto companies currently relocating to Puerto Rico would presumably do their currency mining elsewhere. Still, the idea of turning an island that cannot keep the lights on for its own people into “the epicenter of this multitrillion-dollar market” rooted in the most wasteful possible use of energy is a bizarre one and is raising mounting concerns of “crypto-colonialism
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Tagen
    There were the notorious experiments in population control that, by the mid-1960s, resulted in the coercive sterilization of more than one-third of Puerto Rican women. Many dangerous drugs have been tested in Puerto Rico over the years, including a high-risk version of the birth control pill containing a dosage of hormones four times greater than the drugs that ultimately entered the U.S. market.
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Tagen
    Juan E. Rosario, a longtime community organizer and environmentalist who told me that his own mother was a Thalidomide test subject, put it like this: “It’s an island, isolated, with a lot of nonvaluable people. Expendable people. For many years, we have been used as guinea pigs for U.S. experiments
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Tagen
    Colonialism itself is a social experiment, a multilayered system of explicit and implicit controls designed to strip colonized peoples of their culture, confidence, and power. With tools ranging from the brute military and police aggression used to put down strikes and rebellions, to a law that once banned the Puerto Rican flag, to the dictates handed down today by the unelected fiscal control board, residents of these islands have been living under that web of controls for centuries.
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Tagen
    The problem, he went on, is that “people in Puerto Rico are very fearful of thinking about the Big Thing. We are not supposed to be dreaming; we are not supposed to be thinking about even governing ourselves. We don’t have that tradition of looking at the big picture.” This, he said, is colonialism’s most bitter legacy.
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Tagen
    A way to “start really thinking about how you prepare for the fact that climate change is here.”
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Tagen
    A way to “start really thinking about how you prepare for the fact that climate change is here.”
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Tagen
    long-awaited “fiscal plan,” which included closing more than 300 schools and shutting down more than two-thirds of the island government’s executive-branch entities, going from a total of 115 to just 35
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Tagen
    “Puerto Ricans had already undergone a huge amount of trauma due to the colonial relationship to the United States,” most recently during the debt crisis.
  • Eugeniahat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Tagen
    The exodus also conveniently helps create the “blank canvas” that the governor has bragged about to would-be investors
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