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From: Date:Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:17:52 -0400

To: Meet the Minimum Needs of All

Subject: "....the Poor are identified but have little representation."

From: Date:Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:17:52 -0400

To: Meet the Minimum Needs of All

By M. Radh Achuthan

We could meet the “Minimum Needs of All’ (MMNA) through restitution

and a “Restorative Justice Compact” between the Rich and the Poor.

The minimum needs are:

— Sufficient drinking water for each per day.

— Nutrition of 2,500 calories per day, per person.

— Localized basic clothing and shelter

— Basic primary health care.

— Substantive primary education of five years duration, in practice.

In our world population of about six billion, 2.9 billion live on less than $3

or Euros per day, and 1.3 billion within that population live on less than $1

or 1 Euro per day. The 2.9 billion may be designated as The Poor; they

live mainly in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =

"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Africa, Latin America,

South Asia and China. The discussion that follows applies to the

population of 2.9 billion people who live on less than $3 per day as

outlined above.

First, what has been done to remove poverty at these levels in the 21st

century? People have been concerned, and their concern is reflected in

certain developments. During 2002, powerful world institutions such as the

United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World

Trade Organization arrived at “The Millennium Development Compact”

(MDC), which intends to remove the dire poverty of the 1.3 billion people

who live on less than $1 per day by the year 2015. Even if all the

conditions of the MDC were met, it is unlikely that the MDC will unfold as

expected, since only the economic incentive within the politics of time

(enabling the Poor to become consumers makes business sense in the long

run) has been advanced to fuel the MDC.

What is missing but vaguely implied and necessary is an ethical compact

between the groups identified as the Rich and the Poor, to realize

restitution and restoration at these levels of justice, so far unrealized in

human society within the politics of eternity. This ethical component to

remove dire poverty, and in addition to meet the minimum needs of all, has

yet to be crafted.

Second, spiritually, human beings have been working toward this end, and

in the 21st century, after the lessons of World War I and the Cold War of

the 20th century, we may sense we are almost there. We may wonder

whether the groupings Rich and Poor exist in an organized manner. The

Rich are identified and organized; the Poor are identified but have little

representation.

Based on their material resources, both groups are armed, unequally, of

course, and for different reasons. Any form of violence from either side in

the pursuit of social justice is to be abhorred and will not lead to a solution.

The pursuit must be elevated to a higher ethical and a deeper spiritual level.

But what human resources can we rely on to achieve restitution, and to

elevate the Rich and the Poor to these levels of human potential?

We could easily familiarize ourselves with the facts, contend and agree

upon the truth, and understand and reconcile on the steps that were taken

historically, since we are used to these activities in civil society. We can

then call upon our spirituality ‘to make things right’ through restitution and

restorative justice, the best we can, after nonviolent negotiation. The

outcome will no doubt fall short, as the descendents of those who have

suffered and/or died in this context will readily acknowledge.

Third, though no two situations are alike, historically there is good evidence

that the process can work:

— Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Germany, got the Bundestag to

agree to provide restitution to the survivors of the Holocaust in terms of

support for Israel in 1950. He committed Germans to pay about $1.2

billion to Israel and the Holocaust survivors, though, without

acknowledging any “responsibility,”

— In 1970, Chancellor Willy Brandt, took the process a step further,

absorbing some “moral responsibility” on the part of the Third Reich, and

Germans in general, for the Holocaust.

— In the 1980s, the U.S. government made provision for restitution for

Japanese American citizens who were interred in camps after Pearl

Harbor.

— In the 1980s, Japan acknowledged some responsibility for the Korean

“Comfort Women” operation during WWII for the benefit of the Japanese

soldiers and offered restitution to survivors.

— Free under Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu, in the 1990s, South

Africa formed a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to enable all South

Africans to come to terms with the deeds against “coloreds” by the

departed Apartheid government of South Africa.

— Beyond the civil rights legislation, restitution for American blacks on the

past institution of slavery is under consideration and yet to be agreed upon.

— The North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, in 1990,

reclassified Indian remains from “specimen” to human,” to enable

restitution of human remains (nearly 600,000) to American Indians, which

is currently underway; much headway has been made with regard to

restitution of sacred objects, and on restitution of land, negotiations

continue.

— The original inhabitants of New Zealand, the Maoris, have come to

some satisfactory terms with the British Crown on their claims.

— The Aborigines of Australia continue to press their claims with the

government of Australia.

The above achievements of the spirit represent the recent political mood on

restitution and restorative justice in the world on matters of diverse origin

where the human spirit has found itself culpable.

Fourth, acknowledging the wealth and capabilities of the world in the 21st

century, and the ability to disseminate through the media the chilling

disparity in distribution and consumption levels of global produce and

resources among the different global populations, restorative justice

between the Rich of the world and the Poor of the world, in terms of

MMNA, as a form of redress for the past victimization of one part of the

human enterprise by another part of the history of colonialism, can and

must be placed on the spiritual/political agenda for resolution.

The current global opposition and ambivalence to the propriety of

approaches like “Shock and Awe” to impress consciousness and subdue

spirituality provides an opening for the forces of spirituality to access the

table on restitution.

Firth, spiritually, MMNA will be about and around the identity of

economic humanity—the economic human identity of the individual. Who

owns it? Is there a threshold? If so, imposed by whom? Was it a

self-appointment? A group appointment? Where did the sanction for

separation on this identity in secular life among human beings come from?

Did the human spirit authorize it? Was it of necessity? Was it of choice? Is

it necessary today?

Sixth, there is a need for a strong pan-poverty movement of the Poor that

calls for the transfer of those held Poor into economic humanity. The Poor

are strong in their spiritual human identity and in the process of realizing

MMNA each group will be enhanced somewhat in what it is lacking. The

Restorative Justice Compact would negotiate around economic human

identity to realize these potential enhancements. The Rich will benefit

spiritually, in ceasing to keep People Poor and become more wholesome;

the pan-wealthy who set up and own the system must come to understand

this aspect and commit themselves to the redefinition of economic human

identity to facilitate MMNA. This type of restorative justice is yet to be

negotiated into a compact.

In having inherited or participated in bringing about the current social

condition, there is group social guilt, which is a powerful political tool in all

cultures. About 35,200 human beings die each day of hunger and

malnutrition, and global consciousness (that of the Rich and of the Poor)

may not play hide and seek on the question of responsibility any more.

MDC is a good beginning and it can lead to MMNA. In all this, Charity is

not involved at all. Charity is a great restorative attitude and action as a

problem gets initially identified, but it is not an appropriate response for

one like poverty, which historically is created and maintained through one’s

own complicity in the economic structure, and historically endured by other

human beings different from the self but aiding the self as a part of one’s

own system!

Seventh, when consciousness prevaricates from addressing the economic

human identity of nearly half the global population, elements of the

deprived group, in frustration and ill advisedly, turn to acts of violence, as

in 9/11, expressing their grievances directly to the people of the First

World. We condemn violence and uphold nonviolence as the only

approach for resolution of grievances, and make an urgent call for a Global

Truth and Reconciliation Commission on economic human identity.

Meeting the Minimum Needs of All (MMNA), through restitution, is the

proposed stable solution.

The help facilitate the process of restitution, it is desirable to get First

World children of the pan-wealthy in developed developing countries to be

concerned about and involved with the issue of global poverty. It is

undesirable to get them alienated from their less fortunate pan-poor

brothers and sisters, through demands on their time, energy and ambition

to participate in wasteful consumption. Hence the suggestion of July 28,

2003, to the North American Human Rights Education listserv of 3,000, to

make issues of global poverty a part of public school human rights

education.

Thereafter, let the youngsters choose, even as we do.

Mr. M. Radh Achuthan, a resident of Southampton, is a professor of

physics in the Natural Science Division at Southampton College.

Issue Date: Southampton Press 09/25/03

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