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

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

The Greek Crisis - What You're Not Being Told

Click here to access 4:15m video with transcript posted on StormCloudsGathering. (I'm not sure who is behind this website, but the video was also posted without the transcript on Non-Aligned Media where Brandon Martinez was listed as the writer. (He is also the co-founder of the Non-Aligned Media. I much prefer this one with the transcript.) 

The video with transcript provides what I believe to be a very good summary for those who haven't been following the events in Greece and Europe because they are much too busy or think that foreign events don't matter to them.