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

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Hitler’s Youth-Israel’s Youth: And the Difference?

Click here to access article by Sibel Edmonds from Boiling Frogs. 

This brave former FBI translator finds an interesting piece in an Israeli online website entitled, "Tourists venture to West Bank to 'shoot terrorists', and sees parallels with the Hitler Jugend. She reprints the article with the addition of a Hitler Jugend photo, and lets the reader draw their own conclusions.
This morning I came across the article below. It made me sick- as a human, as a mother of a four-year old … I felt nauseated; disgusted. I can go on and list even more adjectives, but I’ll let you read the article and come up with your own adjectives-many of which I am sure would match my own....
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