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    • Human Economics Rights: a Nonkilling checklist, by Francisco Gomes de Matos

    We kill a person, a group, a community economically when

    we deprive him/her/them of clear water
    food for daily subsistence
    a decent standard of living
    a job (the right to work)
    fair wages (decent minimum ages)
    the right to join a labor union
    engage in open, competitive economic practices
    medical care
    a place to live (the right to shelter)
    economic equality

    we cause him/her/them to lose their savings in a financial operation
    to become bankrupt
    to be ruined financially

    we force him/her/them to work in slavery-like conditions (against one’s will)
    to work in illegal practices or activities

    we widen the gap between rich and poor

    we discriminate him; her; them for economic reasons (and label the person, the group derogatorily, dehumanizingly, debasingly)

    Let’s not kill anybody, any group, any organization, any country economically. Let’s respect and dignify economic relations universally.

    What would you add to the list? Why? Justify your addition

    Marti Ford, Dean of the School of Indigenous Education, Red River College, Winnipeg, Canada sent these two additions (September, 14, 2009):

    WHEN we cause them to lose their dignity

    WHEN we discriminate for gender, race, intelligence and color



    Francisco Gomes de Matos is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil; Co-author of the chapter "Toward a Nonkilling Linguistics" (Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm, Honolulu, 2009), basis of the Course "Nonkilling Linguistics" at Wikiversity's School of Nonkilling Studies. Professor Emeritus, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Co-founder and currently President of the Board, Associação Brasil América. He can be reached at fcgm@hotlink.com.br