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, April 24, 2011

What Happened in Wisconsin?

Click here to access article by Tessa Echeverria and Andrew Sernatinger from New Socialist. 

The writers provide a good summing up of the Wisconsin fight-back within a wider context of world economic and political trends, and continue with lessons to increase the chances for public sector workers to win the class war that is now raging across the mid-western States.
We hope to begin a discussion of the context and dynamics of the Battle for Wisconsin, with the ultimate aim of drawing out key political lessons for the next phase of our own struggle in Wisconsin as well as for others preparing for their own fight-backs. 

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