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

Sunday, February 12, 2012

A Movement and the Hostile Media

Click here to access article by Boots Riley from The Occupied Wall Street Journal.








Every progressive movement in U.S. history was portrayed negatively by mainstream media at the time it was happening. So it’s no surprise that today’s media portray the Occupy Wall Street movement in the same light.
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