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, November 25, 2012

During latest war, calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza and population transfer of citizens

Click here to access article by Patrick O. Strickland from Bikya Masr. 
During Israel’s most recent military offensive against the Gaza Strip, brought to an end by a tenuous ceasefire on Wednesday night, several Israeli officials and public figures called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and others for the forced population transfer of Arab citizens of Israel.
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