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, May 31, 2014

How Should We Write and Fight?

Click here to access article by Andre Vltchek from CounterPunch.

 In this article brimming with passionate concern for our future, Vltchek asks some very basic questions that all activists must deal with. As a way of summary, I think this is what he is basically asking: how can we activists be effective in communicating to others the truth about what is happening in the world AND overcome the megaphones of capitalist mind-controlling media and indoctrination-loaded education?
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