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Impact CalculusImpact Calc – Culture ImpactLOSS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURES THREATENS OUR EXTINCTIONPam Solo, executive director, CULTURAL SURVIVAL QUARTERLY, Spring 1992, p. 1. As the next millennium approaches, Cultural Survival hopes to take that lesson toward a second wave of political action that will help turn around relations between North and South, just as ordinary citizens helped reverse the tide of East-West relations. But while Western movements have focused on the weapons of war, the politics of the 1990s will center on a single interlocking agenda; human rights, the environment, and development. At its heart are some 600 million indigenous people. Their fate is a pathway and litmus test of our progress toward a peaceful and sustainable world order. From the periphery of political, economic and social power, they are moving to the center of world attention. Our survival depends on ensuring that no one, particularly the poorest of the poor is thrown out of the canoe or viewed as dispensable. This is a moral and a practical imperative. Readers of Cultural Survival Quarterly know this well. On the practical side, indigenous peoples live in the world’s last wild places, sheltering much of the world’s genetic heritage. By helping native peoples save themselves, we help them protect fragile environments on which we all ultimately depend. We need them for their part of the canoe to be cared for. But we also just need them to be-as human beings with a culture, a history and a hoped-for common future as a people. That is the moral imperative. It is past time to begin addressing this fundamental issue: human rights and the ability of human beings to discover ways to live together in plural societies. We want “At the Threshold” to help foster that process in communities throughout the United Sates. We invite your involvement, your ideas, and your time. What must be done? What is our role at the local level? How can we cause governments and business, schools and churches and community organizations to advance human rights, protect and conserve fragile resources, and address the conditions that condemn too many to choose between environmental degradation and endless poverty? The job will not be easy, nor will it be accomplished overnight, but this is the time to act Indian organizations are stronger and better organized than ever, indigenous peoples themselves are defining and leading movements for their rights. They are also looking to first-world activities as allies and partners in a new alliance. Cross cultural collaboration will join more familiar forms of political action, even if centuries of colonialism and ensuing powerlessness have left a legacy of distrust and poverty that complicates this alliance. DESTRUCTION OF INDIGENOUS HISTORY AND CULTURE IS AS BAD AS GENOCIDEAlice Tallmadge, journalist, “Tribes Unearth Their Past in Paper,” THE OREGONIAN, June 23, 2001, p. A1. But they also are giving hope and strength to hundreds of Native Americans whose ancestors once had dominion over lands that stretched the length of the Oregon coast and to Southwest Washington and Northern California. "The worst tragedy to a cultural group is not merely the brutality and slaughter of the people," said Wasson, a member of the Coquille Tribe and a doctoral recipient from the University of Oregon. "Holocaust is terrible, but the immediate pain is for young people who are separated from their culture and traditions. They inherit the pain and anguish of their ancestors." "These documents mean more to us than interesting papers," said Jason Younker, a UO doctoral candidate and member of the Coquille Tribe. "They are actually proof that we were here." The Coquille Tribe was terminated in 1954, Younker said. "And until restoration in 1988, we were not Indians. Growing up a generation from that experience has a tremendous impact on your psyche. Now here we have overwhelming credibility to what we have already known: that we truly are the Coquille people. Impact Calc – Global ApartheidAnd, global apartheid will result in extinctionStulman accessed in 2010 (Michael, Associate Director of Policy and Communications for Africa Action, “Global Apartheid”, Africa Action: Activism for Africa Since 1953, http://www.africaaction.org/global-apartheid.html, accessed 8/12/2010) The term "global apartheid" describes the current international system of minority rule that keeps Africa poor. Global apartheid is a system of inequality that dictates access to wealth, power and basic human rights based on race and place. The elites in the rich and powerful countries control the major global decision-making bodies - such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) - and preserve this system, which works in their favor. They ensure that the privileged citizens of rich countries have more resources and access to human rights than people in poor countries. Like apartheid in South Africa, global apartheid entrenches great disparities in wealth, living conditions, life expectancy and access to government institutions with effective power. It relies on the assumption that it is "natural" for different population groups to have different expectations of life. Global patterns of poverty and HIV/AIDS, disproportionately concentrated among Black people, reveal the deadly impact of global apartheid. Africa's people are denied wealth, power, health and security. As a result, Africa is left with the largest share of poverty and suffering in the world. These patterns of inequality are nearly 500 years old - created through slavery, colonialism and corporate greed for Africa's wealth. Today, this inequality is increasing the global gap between rich and poor, along racial and geographical lines. The devastating spread of HIV/AIDS and other poverty-related diseases is the direct consequence of global apartheid. Africa is home to just over 10% of the world's population, but more than two-thirds of those living with HIV/AIDS globally. The glacial pace of the international response to AIDS reflects an entrenched double standard that was characteristic of the apartheid system. As Dr. Peter Piot of UNAIDS has remarked on the matter of AIDS in Africa and the western world's response, "If this had happened with white people, the reaction would have been different." Global apartheid is more than a metaphor. The concept captures fundamental characteristics of the current world order. It reveals them to be the result of historic injustices and current international policies that perpetuate global inequality. The fight against global apartheid is a matter of life and death for much of humankind and for the very concept of our common humanity.
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