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, July 27, 2010

Hacker Magazine Editor Says WikiLeaks is Bigger Than Julian Assange (17:00m video)

from Democracy Now broadcast. 

Amy Goodman interviews Emmanuel Goldstein (pseudonym), editor of the magazine "2600: The Hacker Quarterly". Their discussion starts off with a video excerpt from a conference featuring a segment where a government informant, Adrian Lamo, discusses his role in the recent Wiki leaks controversy. Spc. Bradley Manning is the alleged leaker. 

With the exception of people like Lamo, the interview reveals how brave people in and outside of the Armed Services are fighting for the public's right to know what is happening in the Empire's wars.
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