Surviving Capitalism (Not) : FBI Agents Raid Homes in Search of “Anarchist Literature”

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, July 31, 2012

FBI Agents Raid Homes in Search of “Anarchist Literature”

Click here to access article by Will Potter from Green is the New Red.

For many in the US a police state already exists. If you are a Muslim, anarchist, activist, immigrant, and a poor person living in certain sections of cities, you experience police state control over your daily lives. This article reports on the experience of those labeled as anarchists by the enforcers of the One Percent.

When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.”