Surviving Capitalism (Not) : U.S. retirement benefits to be cut? (8:00m and 9:59m videos)

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, May 10, 2010

U.S. retirement benefits to be cut? (8:00m and 9:59m videos)

from The Real News Network. This is coverage on Obama's recently convened Commission on Fiscal Responsibility. The Empire's ruling class, after robbing so many developing countries with Greece being only the latest victim, is preparing a more aggressive "structural adjustment" on the most vulnerable of the American people that will, no doubt, take effect after the Fall elections--if we don't stop it!

Here is part 2.