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

Saturday, February 25, 2012

All the Memes of Production

Click here to access article by Deterritorial Support Group from New Left Project (UK). 

This is one essay in a book that will be published in July of this year entitled, Occupy Everything! Reflections on Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere. I found this piece interesting in that it gave me some insights on the cyber-youth movement that is an important component of Occupier activists everywhere. Also, the book (100 pages) is available for downloading through a link on this article.
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