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

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

U.S. covering up reality in Honduras (11:10m video)

from The Real News Network. The US covers up the human rights horror of its Honduran section of the Empire as it celebrates its made-in-Washington regime. Meanwhile any reporting of the events in this tragic country have disappeared from US mainstream media.