The other day someone implicitly challenged me - what right do I have to stand up to governments and corporations and tell them what to do?
Although I think finding the best path forward is fraught and must be multi-stakeholder in process, its clear what paths forward are DELETERIOUS and should be abandoned immediately:
Chen, Michelle (2019, Feb 26). 1 in 5 Children Live in a War Zone. The Nation, https://www.thenation.com/article/children-warzone-conflict/And that number has only risen in the past few years. Around the world, a stunning one in five children are growing up in a war zone today. Neither their governments, nor humanitarian-aid groups, nor their families can guarantee the basic elements of survival, much less anything like a happy childhood.
As a MOTHER and TEACHER, if for no other reasons, I have the AUTHORITY and LEGITIMACY to speak out against the neo-mercantile governments and merchants of death and extraction that profiteer from a world at war, with children AT RISK.