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

Thursday, May 31, 2012

What Israel’s anti-African pogroms tell us about Zionism

Click here to access article by Robert Kazandjian, Ali Hocine Dimerdji, and Samantha.Asumadu from Ceasefire (UK). 
A week ago, Tel Aviv's African migrant community came under a sustained mob attack, including vandalism, looting and firebombing. [The authors] argue that these events, and their aftermath, provide further evidence of the inherently racist nature of political Zionism.