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

Friday, February 21, 2014

Letter from comrade Kostas Sakkas, 17.02.2014

Click here to access article by Kostas Sakkas posted on Eagainst (Greece).

It seems that terrorism is in the eyes of the beholder. This Greek activist, who is on the run from Greek authorities for opposing their neoliberal crimes, points his finger at the real terrorists of Greek society. And, in the process sheds some light on how these neoliberal criminals accomplished their crimes, many of the methods might seem familiar to those of us in the US.
The unofficial propaganda ministry of the government, with the help of mainstream media, is struggling to convince us either by propaganda or suppression that any kind of resistance to the present unequal economic and political distribution is futile and doomed, since it will always be confronted with all the mechanisms, institutions and functions of the current totalitarian regime. They want a confused society, passive towards developments and perceptively decommissioned that will accept without protest the government’s extreme anti-popular policies. They construct an artificial climate of precarity so that memorandums and measures of new impoverishment can be applied unquestioningly.