Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Greece protests nationwide under media blackout

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

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Greece protests nationwide under media blackout

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This only illustrates a common practice by agents of the One Percent's media empire. Managing the news is a critically important function to maintain their rule. It's as important as battleships and drones, as police state surveillance of activists, as all their means of indoctrination in education, and entertainment. That is precisely why in this class war that we must establish and support as much as we can our own alternative sources of media such as Indymedia and other outlets that can be used to critically examine our own history and current political affairs.