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Where there’s resistance, there’s hope: Recovering linguistic diversity in Latin America
Activism, Decolonialism, Eugenia Urrere, Translation

Where there’s resistance, there’s hope: Recovering linguistic diversity in Latin America

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When a language dies, ancestral knowledge is lost and the culture begins to disappear. Our human capacity for creativity becomes restricted as we increasingly adopt more homogenous points of view. We begin to lose faculties such as tolerance and the practice finding harmony within diversity. Eventually, we begin to deteriorate as a society.

Activism, Essay, Featured, Post-Capitalism, Soy Pública, Translation

Overcoming the Shock Doctrine

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“To immunize ourselves from learned helplessness, the best thing is to have encountered neither success nor failure exclusively. Be conscious that there are things which we can control, and things which we cannot. As Epicurus remarked: “We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come…”