Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Under the Hammer

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

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Under the Hammer

Click here to access article by David Glenn Cox from OpEdNews.

We are daily witnessing how globalization is adversely impacting the lives of almost everyone nearly everywhere in the world, and remaking the world to serve the global One Percent. For the rest of us it is like living "under the hammer". In this piece Cox reports on a mysterious incident in his life that alerted him in concrete ways how globalization is impacting the world around him.