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

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Working Class Hero Takes a Bow

Click here to access photos celebrating Lebanese workers from Beirut based Al Akhbar. 

This is an illustration of how international May Day is: workers all over the world are celebrating it. It all began in Chicago in 1886 with the one of the first battles of the class war against capitalists called the Haymarket riot and massacre.