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, July 22, 2012

London prepares for the war games

Click here to access article by Tim Dobson from Green Left (Australia).

Like everything else subject to the rule of the One Percent, an event that was designed to celebrate the athletic prowess of youth has been turned into "the most corporatised, militarised and draconian Olympics of all time." The author provides all the disturbing details that he is presently witnessing in London regarding the subversion of Olympic values by the Empire's imposition of their values of profit and power.