My apologies for not writing for such a long time, life is very busy. Much whistleblowing and the usual obstruction and corruption continues only the stakes are much higher now. Our "global village" is in unparalleled peril on many fronts.
But, as in other ages, the people are rising up all over the world. Those who are bruised, bloodied and burdened by a kind of slavery in the modern world. Too many are hurting, so revolution and protest is in the air.
Here are some links with some inklings of what is going on in North America, the growing #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement that is going far beyond the belly of the beast.
Adbusters' Kalle Lasn Talks About OccupyWallStreet
The Tyee, October 7, 2011.
The veteran culture-jammer on his role in getting the protest rolling, magic memes, what he would demand, and more.
"We always thought of ourselves as the catalyzers, the people who set that meme, as we like to call it, in motion. And right from the start we decided that we're not going to play a part on the street, that if our meme flies, if people love it, then we're happy to come up with posters, and we did send them all kinds of handbills and we sent them corporate America flags.
************************#OccupyWall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
We pointed out that the deregulation behind the frenzy came at a price. It was damaging to labor standards. It was damaging to environmental standards. Corporations were becoming more powerful than governments and that was damaging to our democracies. But to be honest with you, while the good times rolled, taking on an economic system based on greed was a tough sell, at least in rich countries.
Ten years later, it seems as if there aren’t any more rich countries. Just a whole lot of rich people. People who got rich looting the public wealth and exhausting natural resources around the world.
The point is, today everyone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control. Unfettered greed has trashed the global economy. And it is trashing the natural world as well. We are overfishing our oceans, polluting our water with fracking and deepwater drilling, turning to the dirtiest forms of energy on the planet, like the Alberta tar sands. And the atmosphere cannot absorb the amount of carbon we are putting into it, creating dangerous warming. The new normal is serial disasters: economic and ecological.
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