Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change
नाओमी क्लीन: खौफनाक घटनाएं कैसे सकारात्मक बदलाव को जन्म देती हैं
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puzzling over and writing about
हैरान करता रहा है
to change and evolve
I'm talking about are big --
वे बहुत बड़े हैं -
rising fascism,
बढ़ता फासिस्टवाद,
that poisons on a massive scale.
पर जहर फैलाकर जानें ले ले.
can act like a collective alarm bell.
होती है जगानेवाली .
we get organized.
that was previously unimaginable.
जो पहले अकल्पनीय थी.
walking, but leaping.
seems to be busted.
खराब हो जाती है.
we often fall apart, regress
या पीछे हट जाते हैं,
for antidemocratic forces
को मौका देता है,
to become more unequal and more unstable.
बनाने का.
about this backwards process
में जाने के बारे में लिखा,
we navigate through crisis?
में हम किस राह को चुनते हैं?
and find those strengths
और शक्तिशाली बनते हैं,
a pressing question these days.
ये महत्त्वपूर्ण सवाल है.
pretty shocking out there.
threatening to devour them,
disappearing beneath the waves.
there are torches in the streets.
of people who are sounding the alarm.
जो इन घटनाओं पर चेतावनी दे रहे हैं.
I don't think we can honestly say
with anything like the urgency
को उत्तर दे पा रहे हैं,
demand from us.
to catalyze a kind of evolutionary leap.
जन्म ले सकती हैं.
of this progressive power of crisis
सबसे असाधारण मिसाल है -
of the sudden market collapse
thrown onto breadlines.
और उन्हें भुखमरी के दिन देखने पड़े.
that the system itself was broken.
सिस्टम में बहुत गलतियां हैं.
and they leapt into action.
चीज़ें ठीक करने के लिए कदम उठाये.
governments began to weave a safety net
सुरक्षा कवच बनाने में जुट गईं,
like social security to catch people.
करने में सक्षम हों.
public investments
करने वाले निवेश किये गये .
यातायात के लिए.
of aggressive regulation
आक्रामक कानूनों को
immigrants and women
प्रवासी नागरिक और महिलाएं,
of allied nations and economies
for complex societies
in the face of a collective threat.
सबके ऊपर सामूहिक खतरा मंडरा रहा हो.
of the 1929 Crash,
that it follows --
and it induced a wake-up call
उद्वेलित नहीं कर रहे?
to climate change.
complete recipe for deep transformation
on two key ingredients
of the history books.
the other with organization.
between the two
didn't happen just because suddenly
the brutalities of laissez-faire.
नीति से होने वाले नुकसान की समझ आ गयी थी.
of tremendous ideological ferment,
about how to organize societies
in the public square.
बड़ा सोचने की हिम्मत की थी,
along radically egalitarian lines.
of explosive imagining.
demanding change
crushing poverty, widening inequality --
अत्यंत गरीबी, बढती हुई असमानता -
they knew what they were for.
उनको क्या चाहिए.
and they had their "yes," too.
models of political organization
their membership bases,
and increasing their strength.
उनकी शक्ति बढ़ गयी.
the Crash happened,
that was large and broad enough
बन चुका था,
that didn't just shut down factories,
were actually offered as compromises.
के लिए की जाने वाली प्रस्तुति थी.
seemed to be revolution.
that equation from earlier.
of extraordinary political engagements.
में जी रहे हैं.
and resisting with tremendous courage.
बड़ी हिम्मत से विरोध प्रकट कर रहे हैं.
that "no" is not enough.
सिर्फ़ "ना" काफी नहीं.
out there that are emerging.
a lot bolder quickly.
used to talk about changing light bulbs,
बात कर रहे थे,
for 100 percent of our energy
by police violence against black bodies
to militarized police, mass incarceration
opposing tuition increases,
का ही विरोध नहीं कर रहे,
and debt cancellation.
and universalist vision
than our predecessors had.
पहुँच पाता.
we think about political change
inequality in another,
in a couple of other boxes,
of different groups and NGOs,
for credit, name recognition
a lot like corporate brands.
as the problem of silos.
into manageable chunks.
योग्य खण्डों में बाँटते हैं.
they also train our brains to tune out
ऐसे शिक्षित करते हैं, कि जब कभी
आवश्यकता होती है तो,
needs our help and support.
सोचना बंद कर देता है.
glaring connections between our issues.
देखने से भी वंचित करते हैं.
poverty and inequality
खिलाफ लड़ने वाले लोग,
to extreme weather.
rarely talk about war and occupation.
युद्धों के बारे में बात नहीं करते.
that the thirst for fossil fuels
has gotten better at pointing out
hit hardest by climate change
अतिप्रभावित हैं,
by black and brown people.
are treated as disposable
when they emerge,
के हल अगर निकलते हैं,
of demands that I was mentioning earlier,
की लम्बी लिस्ट है,
of the world we're fighting for.
जिसकी हमने कल्पना की है.
and most of all, what its core values are.
उसकी मूल मान्यताएं क्या होंगी,
to leap somewhere safer,
की जरुरत पड़ेगी,
on what that place is.
उस पर सहमती नहीं बनेगी.
of conversations and experiments going on
लड़ने के लिए कई प्रकार के
that are holding us back.
by talking about one of them.
a group of us in Canada
in our various silos.
in a room for two days,
what bound us together.
who rarely get face to face.
एक दूसरे के साथ काम नहीं करते.
with hipsters working on transit.
पर विचार कर रहे थे.
representing oil workers and loggers.
and feminist icons and many more.
महिलावादी भी थे.
a pretty ambitious assignment:
describing the world after we win.
के विश्व का वर्णन करता हो.
made the transition to a clean economy
के बाद के विश्व
about what will happen if we don't act,
बुरे दिनों के बारे में डराने के बजाय,
with what could happen if we did act.
होने वाले बदलाव के बारे में बताया.
in small increments.
be the enemy of the good.
नहीं होना चाहिए.
and we called it "The Leap."
उसको नाम दिया "द लीप".
that agreeing on our common "yes"
मारे साझा "हाँ" पर एकमत होना,
of a lot of painful history
permission to dream,
की अनुमति दी,
much of our work became self-evident.
साफ़ नज़र आने लगे.
to work more than 50 hours a week,
काम करने पर मजबूर कर रही है,
this epidemic of despair
profits and endless growth
of our ecological crisis
a culture of care-taking.
and nowhere is thrown away.
किसी को उपेक्षित न किया जाए.
and every ecosystem is foundational.
बुनियादी हों.
the whole thing to you out loud --
पढने वाली नहीं हूँ,
you can read it at theleap.org.
पर पढ़ सकते हैं.
of what we came up with.
renewable economy in a hurry,
अक्षय उर्जा का ही उपयोग हो.
on a guaranteed annual income,
ठाने की मांग की.
की बात करी.
की मांग की.
electoral reform and more.
के लिए आवाज़ उठाई.
is that a great many of us
less like brands and more like movements.
काम करना चाहते हैं.
to spread far and wide.
फैलाना चाहते हैं.
that there is this hierarchy of crisis,
to prioritize one struggle over another
has been picked up around the world
in cities like Los Angeles,
that are traditionally very conservative,
अपनाया जा रहा है,
the vast majority of people.
दे पा रही है.
shocks and disasters for two decades.
या तेज़ी से आगे बढ़ते हैं.
and capacity that we never knew we had.
ढूंढ पाते हैं, जो हमें ज्ञात नहीं होती.
that fill us with dread today
transform the world for the better.
that we're fighting for.
जो हमें चाहिए हैं.
is going off simultaneously.
एकसाथ बज रहे हैं.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Naomi Klein - Journalist, activistNaomi Klein is a public intellectual, journalist and activist.
Why you should listen
In her first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Naomi Klein made a strong case against the takeover of public life by global corporations and brands. She ended that pre-internet essay suggesting as a counterpoint that everyone could become their own "personal brand." In her most recent book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, she analyzes how social media has made the idea of personal branding commonplace -- and how it helped Donald Trump become the first brand-president.
Klein's other books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate have also energized the global conversation. Klein is a board member of climate-action group 350.org and one of the organizers of Canada’s Leap Manifesto, and in 2015 she helped launch Pope Francis’s historic encyclical on ecology. In 2016, she received the Sydney Peace Prize for "inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality."
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