ANALZING THE ROOTS OF COMMON CHALLENGES

TREE OF OPPRESSION

This session was led by Julie where she gave an example of a tree which had its leaves and its roots. The branches represented the problem/ injustices faced by the community and the roots present the underlying causes. The participants were divided into groups and came up with the following general problems and roots:

PROBLEMS

(i) Land
· Privatisation
· Resettlement
· Displacement
· Food Access
· Monoculture

(ii) Government
· Coorporate expolitation
· Natural resource exploitation
· Human Exploitation
· Water privatization and contamination
· Rights of fishermen

(iii) Militarization and Criminalization of Human rights Activists
(iv) Repression
(v) Cooperatization of food
(vi) Gender Dimension
(vii) Differences in religious Backgrounds
(viii) Inhuman development processes


ROOTS
(i) Lack of respect to diversity
(ii) Lack of representation structures
(iii) Ongoing colonialism
(iv) Holistic understanding
(v) Commoditization and Capitalism
(vi) Lack of political will
(vii) Lack of good leadership
(viii) Lack of Acccoutability
(ix) Lack of participation
(x) Selfishness
(xi) Disempowernment
(xii) Lack of information on human rights