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, November 24, 2010

Tuition fee protests: eight injured, five arrested as students turn violent [U.K.]

By Andy Bloxham from The Telegraph.

Students in the UK are fighting back against dramatic increases in higher education fees that are another way in which the capitalist class will make working people and their children pay for the crash in their casino economy. Unfortunately, their latest gambling activities at the casino have resulted in debts and they have the gall to stick us with the bill.  

Meanwhile, let us see how the children of capitalists are managing under the austerity measures by reading this Bloomberg article.
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