Calvin Helin's "The Economic Dependency Trap" full book trailer

From the author of "Dances with Dependency", Calvin Helin, launches his new book, "The Economic Dependency Trap -- Breaking Free to Self-Reliance". This book is essential reading for educators, community organizers, and others who work for social reform, as well as for pundits and policymakers. Most importantly, it is for people in all strata of society who are seeking a nonpartisan blueprint for breaking out of the prison of economic dependency, improving their own life circumstances, and achieving prosperity based on self-reliance. Order your copy today at www.spiritorca.com

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[Gunnabee]

We must organise our political unity as an independent represenation of our intersts to ourselves first, and then to our oppressors.

[Gunnabee]

Our gold medals belong to those of us who have taken up the fight.

[Gunnabee]

Simply making by analogy, a quantum leap between our ‘ideal past’ to our present situation of dependency without recognising the many heroic struggles in-between is disingenuous and dangerous.

[Gunnabee]

And if this is a call for those of us who can make these choices because we are political or economically able (middle class?) then we should recognise that such calls for ‘mind shifts’ will perpetuate the epistemic violence that the colonisers deploy to delegitimize our claims for social and economic justice.

[Gunnabee]

I don't think we ask governments for self worth, we are asking (in a mostly cold war situation) for the economic, legal, and political commodities that rightfully belong to us as first nation’s people. I agree that we must become economically and politically independent and sorting out the overlaps between independence and dependency is critical to our survival. But for many the mind shift you call for is often not a realistic choice because they are so entrenched in poverty.

[Gunnabee]

its the future we should plan for now