We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, July 19, 2010

Judge Rules CIA Can Suppress Information About Torture Tapes and Memos

from the American Civil Liberties Union. This ruling delivers another blow to any pretenses that the US is a nation governed by laws and that no one, or body, is above the law. The only purpose that the legal system serves under capitalist rule is to control working people.
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