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

Sunday, September 12, 2010

News International plan to sponsor academy school causes concern [in London]

by Jamie Doward, Toby Helm and Rajdeep Sandhu from The Observer

Not content with filling the minds of working people with capitalist junk news and commentary, Rupert Murdoch is expanding his right-wing influence into schools to work on the receptive minds of children. 
"The notion that Rupert Murdoch's values should infect our children is a real horror story,"....