There
is no Peace without Justice. There is no world peace without justice for
everyone, not just those of a certain species.
This is from a speech by Robert Grillo, Free From Harm, at a rally in
Chicago, January 2018, regarding justice for all – not just the human species,
but justice for all - including the animals.
“Free From Harm is dedicated to intersectionality,
that is helping end all forms of oppression to vulnerable human groups and
other species. We expose the industries
that profit on their suffering. We have
been inside their places of exploitation, and rescued some of their weakest,
sickest, most desperate, and defenseless weeks-old victims, We expose what
exploiters work so hard to conceal from the public.
Intersectionality means justice for all, not
justice for some at the expense or exclusion of others. We believe that what Martin Luther King Jr.
famously said decades ago is even more relevant today: “Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere. We are
caught in an in inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of
destiny”.
The bottom line is that we all share a common source
of oppression. The corporations and our corporate states that oppresses
vulnerable human groups are the same ones that exploit other species and the
planet’s resources, as if they own all of us.
Let me say it again. Our
struggle is against a common oppressor.
And we are stronger together.
When we mobilize, we pose the biggest threat to their power.
As intersectional activists, we stand in
solidarity with all of you and all social justice. We support and strengthen each other. As long as we see injustice to our own kind and
other species, we will loudly, confidently and persistently raise our voices
for those who have been silenced! We are
on the right side of history! So let’s
show this city and the world what a united front looks like!”
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