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, November 14, 2011

Mic Check: Now We Are the People!

Click here to access article by Gary Corseri from Dissident Voice. 

In this piece Corseri, my favorite wordsmith, captures the very essence of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across the US and Canada. Little did the New York City enforcers of the ruling class know, when they took the sound equipment away from the Occupiers at Liberty Park, that the latter would create an even more powerful sound system.

This is how it begins:
When in the course of human events
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS

It becomes necessary for one people
IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR ONE PEOPLE

To dissolve the political bands…
TO DISSOLVE THE POLITICAL BANDS…