Losing control is the scariest thing the right wing extremist/fascist leaders and proponents can tolerate. They will go to any lengths including murder, rape and brutality to gain their power.
BTW, when did all this democracy start in the USA?
I suppose its time to come up with a snappy "saying" to fit the occasion,,,i.e., "those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent protest inevitable"! Let's see, voting doesn't accomplish a damn thing,,, Protest and demonstrations are against the law in a few states,,,,Revolution anyone?
Paul, it seems that protest movements have just about run their course as an effective method of social change, as witnessed in both the examples you cite; the positive one was minimally effective lacking significant reporting, and the negative one was subject to the ever-increasing power of the “wheelers and dealers in people's fates." (T. Pratchett)
Those of us searching to re-bend the arc of history back toward justice, if it ever did bend that way, are called upon to find new, more effective, more innovative ways to guide humans past their adolescent purgatory and become mature, interdependent souls.
As we slay all the dragons and charge all the windmills, we will finally realize that LIFE is the supreme value, not money. This will require more than protests and the -isms of the 18th century. It demands a Universal recognition that LIFE is the true object of our reverence, an understanding that most can believe yet remains hidden in the Moneyist's zeitgeist.
The Supreme Court is in place to protect property rights and wealth. I know that you know that. Empire will not go away peacefully. War and death and military arms and prisons are what we are. Yesterday is not a combination that is reasonable. The average person can do what we can through organizing but what the government does will almost never be in support of the common people.
'Revolution, anyone?' It's always a good question, but it helps to apply both Lenin and Sun Tzu in figuring out what's most appropriate at the moment. Greg Calvert and I invented the phrase, 'from protest to resistance' in our search for an extraparliamentary path forward back in 1967. what we ended up with was what I now call 'the street syndicalist deviation,' whereby you just have bigger and bigger street actions, getting to the millions, and then a cohort of liberals in government decide to do the right thing with your demands. Wars end, police get fired, and bad laws are revoked. Then your forces divide into two, and the old order is still there. We need to think about the war of position and war of movement in today's circumstances. Naturally, they change, but so do we.
Losing control is the scariest thing the right wing extremist/fascist leaders and proponents can tolerate. They will go to any lengths including murder, rape and brutality to gain their power.
BTW, when did all this democracy start in the USA?
I suppose its time to come up with a snappy "saying" to fit the occasion,,,i.e., "those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent protest inevitable"! Let's see, voting doesn't accomplish a damn thing,,, Protest and demonstrations are against the law in a few states,,,,Revolution anyone?
Paul, it seems that protest movements have just about run their course as an effective method of social change, as witnessed in both the examples you cite; the positive one was minimally effective lacking significant reporting, and the negative one was subject to the ever-increasing power of the “wheelers and dealers in people's fates." (T. Pratchett)
Those of us searching to re-bend the arc of history back toward justice, if it ever did bend that way, are called upon to find new, more effective, more innovative ways to guide humans past their adolescent purgatory and become mature, interdependent souls.
As we slay all the dragons and charge all the windmills, we will finally realize that LIFE is the supreme value, not money. This will require more than protests and the -isms of the 18th century. It demands a Universal recognition that LIFE is the true object of our reverence, an understanding that most can believe yet remains hidden in the Moneyist's zeitgeist.
The Supreme Court is in place to protect property rights and wealth. I know that you know that. Empire will not go away peacefully. War and death and military arms and prisons are what we are. Yesterday is not a combination that is reasonable. The average person can do what we can through organizing but what the government does will almost never be in support of the common people.
Three cheers for the activists. Any research on what organizations these activists are a part of, and how we can help?
46 people arrested in Seattle, 3 hour blockade of highway serving the airport!!!
'Revolution, anyone?' It's always a good question, but it helps to apply both Lenin and Sun Tzu in figuring out what's most appropriate at the moment. Greg Calvert and I invented the phrase, 'from protest to resistance' in our search for an extraparliamentary path forward back in 1967. what we ended up with was what I now call 'the street syndicalist deviation,' whereby you just have bigger and bigger street actions, getting to the millions, and then a cohort of liberals in government decide to do the right thing with your demands. Wars end, police get fired, and bad laws are revoked. Then your forces divide into two, and the old order is still there. We need to think about the war of position and war of movement in today's circumstances. Naturally, they change, but so do we.
Only a cadre of pure geniuses, could devise a system that provides for its own destruction! Let's hear it for "Murika!