“Don’t Stop Looking for Us”
Jo Saunders, International Liberation Reference Person for Owning-Class People
Today the world is facing climate change, the rise of right-wing governments, destruction, disruption, oppression, genocide and war, and a growing disparity in wealth between the owning class and everyone else. And every single one of these things is happening because somebody is making a profit. Everything bad that is coming down the line [coming in the future] or is actually happening is due to the owning class.
Are those who cause and allow these awful things to happen good? Loving? Cooperative? Intelligent? Yes. We are just like you. But we’ve been deliberately and systematically hurt in particular ways. So we end up being greedy and controlling, and riding roughshod [in a forceful manner] over absolutely everything.
If we can get free of the distresses, we can be useful and effective. We can be good allies. We have many resources besides our money.
This is your business, as well as mine. If you who are working class or middle class or were raised poor make the owning class your business, as Harvey Jackins did, it will liberate and empower you as well as free up considerable resources.
We are not the enemy. Help me unlock the places where we are stuck. And we are, we really are, stuck. Harvey said that as young children we were placed under an evil spell and kidnapped, and that the working class has never stopped looking for us. Prove to me and to yourselves that when oppressed people reclaim their power, they also liberate the oppressor. Don’t stop looking for us.
Winchester, Hants, England