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, October 16, 2011

“Let All Indignados in all the squares join together”: Wall Street and the growing movement

Click here to access article by Joseph Ritchie from his blog, A Scanner Despairingly. 

This independent leftist author from the UK offers some interesting reflections on the Squares movement in an effort to understand what is happening.
This basic idea that the hierarchical control of society via wealth can be overcome is central to these movements.