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, March 16, 2011

International Citizens Radiation Monitoring Network

from Washington's Blog. 
If we could rely on the Japanese and American governments to inform us of any danger, we wouldn't have to be so vigilant.
While mainstream media mostly assures us that we in the US have nothing to worry about in relation to the ever-worsening nuclear disaster in Japan, the author here has given us some useful sources of information, and advises on how we can take action to protect ourselves.
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