Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Bank of America employs 20 full-time social media spies, watches anarchists and occupy protesters

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, January 10, 2014

Bank of America employs 20 full-time social media spies, watches anarchists and occupy protesters

Click here to access article from PivacySOS.

This piece, which has convincing supporting documentation, provides one more illustration (in our local area of Seattle) of the mostly covert nature of fascism that characterizes the US nation today. Fascism, if you didn't know already, is the convergence of powerful forces in modern societies: corporations, civilian government, and the government's enforcement agencies (police and military).