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, April 14, 2013

Fresh student protests in Chile

Click here to access article from Eagainst (Greece).

Here we see the graphic depiction of the continuing protests by Chilean students of the privatization of education that has been well underway in Chile for a number of years. It is a legacy of the neoliberal Pinochet regime installed by the Empire after their assassination of the elected socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973.
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