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 23, 2011

BUY NOTHING DAY / #OCCUPYXMAS

Click here to access article from Adbusters. 
You’ve been sleeping on the streets for two months pleading peacefully for a new spirit in economics. And just as your camps are raided, your eyes pepper sprayed and your head’s knocked in, another group of people are preparing to camp-out.
Do you think this other group will be harassed by police? After all, under capitalism shopping trumps free speech and freedom of assembly.

Black Friday is probably the most important day in the US for the one percent who depend upon profits from their mostly outsourced factories to sustain their profits--the sole interest of capitalist ruling classes the world over.
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