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

Monday, May 16, 2011

Observing the 63rd Nakba

Click here to access article by Richard Falk from Foreign Policy Journal. 
On this 63rd anniversary of the catastrophic Palestinian experience since 1948, when an escaping and expelled 760,000 Palestinians (now this dispossessed population has grown to 4.7 million; the 160,000 Palestinians who managed to stay behind in what became Israel now number 1.3 million), there is an encouraging sense that the destiny of the Palestinian people has entered a more hopeful phase....
After reading this article, I recommend watching the following 2:12m video that I borrowed from Transcend Media Service:

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