Almost three months ago, precisely on 23rd of August was celebrated in Brazil, the day of fighting injustice. We all must defend justice, because when there is some systematic injustice happening for so long, a dangerous precedent can happen, destroying democracy, undermining rule of law and human rights and possibly spreading more injustice. So, the public trust in our institutions is severely harmed. Besides, when there is not justice, the abuses tend to grow, spreading and affecting many more people. So if you have witnessed any violation of human rights, record it and help fight injustice. The systematic violations, the impunity, the daily bullying on mainstream media, the threats online and offline exist to do the victims give up to fight for their rights and reparations. We all should recognize who have courage to defend our human rights including our political rights. Because always there are costs to do this, so help who is losing to defend our rights. Never a human rights defender has had som many rights violated, but now all the world is demanding justice. This post is a summary of two article. The first was published at https://www.beyondintractability.org/cci-mbi-cv19-blog/burgess-current-past-oppression. The second was published at https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2025/The-Best-Way-to-Respond-to-Injustice/
From its earliest days, human society has been plagued by greedy individuals determined to dominate, oppress and exploit others. Social evolution has been shaped by a continuing struggle between these individuals and the larger society that they seek to oppress and exploit. Many of history's greatest accomplishment have been focused on taking one oppressive strategy after another off the table. These include, at least for the U.S., The English Common Law, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. and Roe v. Wade. Other milestones included abandonment of the European colonial empires. Still, the desire to exploit others is a monster that respond to each defeat with some sort of clever workaround that will continue to threaten society. Against this backdrop, the test of each generation is not vehemence with which it searches the historical record for perpetrators of past acts of oppression and its ability to posthumously disgrace them. It is the ability of a society to recognize and combat the innovative new forms of oppression that are having such a huge impact on the lives of people now. While it is, of course, always good to correct the record with respect to past oppression, it is critically important that these historical revisions also acknowledge the positive steps that have been taken, steps that need to be defended and strengthened. Discounting the importance of these steps would do much to strengthen the hand of current-day oppressors since it would undermine some of the best, currently-available tools for defending the interests of the larger population. Beyond this, we need to support vigorous and sophisticated efforts to expose the deceptive forms of oppression that characterize today's world and build the kind of broadly-based coalition needed to effectively challenge them. Obviously, the building of such coalition will only be possible if people resist the divide-and-conquer strategies that contemporary oppressors are using to weaken those who values human rights and justice. To succeed, we need to work together to address current-day oppression. We live in an unjust world. People are treated unfairly for many reasons. They suffer the effects of problems caused or worsened by greedy executives and corrupt officials. These and other injustices affct us all, either directly or indirectly. It is not surprising that many are angry about the injustice they see in the world today. We all want to live in a world where we feel safe and are treated fairly. Some get involved in protests, sign petitions and support political leaders who promise to fight injustice. Still, we can't help but be dismayed, even angry, when we see someone being treated unfairly. We may wonder: 'How should I respons? Is there anything I can do about injustice right now? We may not be able to control the unjust actions of others, but we can control our own actions. The most important way we can respond to injustice is by sharing truths with others. We should reveal not only why there is so much injustice but also how we feel about the distress that it causes us. May we continue to preach the good news we all eagerly looking forward to the time when the earth will be filled with "justice and righteousness."
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