Surviving Capitalism (Not) : “Let’s not live as slaves”

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

Friday, February 17, 2012

“Let’s not live as slaves”

Click here to access article from Eagainst.

This reads like an inspiring manifesto from the Greeks to all of Europe's 99 Percent and beyond.

...it’s time European societies acted collectively, through a joint new European network of revolutionary action. Through open assemblies in every square, in communication and interaction with all the rest, the citizens of Europe could liberate themselves of this mechanistic barbarity of Neoliberalism, taking decisions together that will define our lives. Not as lenders and borrowers, not as rich and poor, not as prosecutors and defendants, but as equal and free citizens.