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

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Police State Watch: NYPD to Install Checkpoints, Demand ID in Lower Manahttan on OWS Anniversary

Click here to access source of internet post from Naked Capitalism.

From the article's brief introduction to the notice below, it appears that some New Yorkers are unaware that much more egregious police state methods are already in operation in certain parts of the city subject to their "stop and frisk [2nd meaning]" policies, and if you are part of certain dissident groups such as Occupy Wall Street or identified as anarchists. See this, this, and this. Apparently it is okay for such tactics to be used against the poor, minorities, and activists, but not against "upstanding" citizens.

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