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

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Downturn's Ugly Trademark: Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages

by Sudeep Reddy from The Wall Street Journal.

The author provides a lot concrete examples of how the (bankster engineered) economic collapse is affecting American workers--only he doesn't mention all the psychological and social devastation that is occurring and will increasingly occur in the days ahead: depression, marital problems, divorces, behavior problems in children, suicides, increasing crime, homelessness, loss of job skills, etc. These effects will happen unless, of course, we organize some kind of resistance and make changes in the existing economic arrangements.