Gal 5:13-15
The Global Neighbour
Love others as you love yourself (14).
Today, globalization connects places and people around the world in ways that were previously unimaginable, making everyone our neighbour. However, in real life experience people find themselves more and more in a state of isolation, distrust and hostility to one another. Life in a transnationalized world is more insecure and alienated because of the casualised, precarious, neo-colonial relationship fostered by the multinational corporations with regard to their business practices. The new business strategy of outsourcing is an example of how these powerful corporations attempt to distance themselves from their responsibility towards their workers through indirect employment. Recent struggles against the Coco Cola company in Kerala’ s Plachimada by the tribals against the large scale extraction and resultant drying up of fresh water wells and the contamination of groundwater is yet another example of the irresponsibility of multinational corporate giants towards the poor.
St. Paul summarising the substance of the law quotes Lev. 19:8. The law is about human responsibility in the world (cf. Rom 13:8-10) The easiest way to destroy spirituality is to excite a spirit of contention and competition which have become the guiding values of the present day globalization. Any assistance to the weak by the nation states are challenged by the values of free trade and equal opportunity advocated by the transnational corporations.
● Lord, help us against the life threatening trade parctices of our strong corporate giant neighbours.
● Organise people’s resistance against unfair global business practices.
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