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

Monday, February 17, 2014

Bosnia on fire: a rebellion on Europe’s periphery

Click here to access article by Mate Kapović from Eagainst (Greece). (Mate Kapović is an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a left political activist.)

After the attack by NATO forces of the Empire which resulted in the balkanization of the former Yugoslavia and the privatization of their economy, the current conflicts in this country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, take on added meaning and should be watched carefully by all political activists on the left. (See also this)