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

Sunday, August 19, 2018

OMG This This This This!

Click here to access article by Caitlin Johnstone from her website. (My gratitude goes to another activist for alerting me to this fine article.)

Johnstone is one of the relatively few people in the world who sees the urgency of the situation in which we find ourselves. Her promotion of truth-telling journalism is a sound one, but it urgently needs to be supported by an organized movement committed to truth-telling. Nothing less will be sufficient to counter the power of a tiny class who are desperately acting to prevent the truth from reaching the overwhelming majority of people on our planet.
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