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, March 16, 2012

Police Try To Intimidate Occupy

Click here to access article from Adbusters. 

There is mounting evidence that the ruling One Percent is feeling very threatened by the Occupy movement and is preparing to use any means necessary to contain it. This brief article illustrates some the police state type methods being used to intimidate activists as they make plans for upcoming projects. 

And this piece from a Canadian source provides additional evidence that police use of so-called non-lethal weapons are being applied in a much more brutal way to inflict injuries on activists.
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