Showing posts with label OccupyWriters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OccupyWriters. Show all posts
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Occupy Your Heart!
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Protester
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing.
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher &
politician (1729 - 1797)
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit
vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that
would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters
didn’t just voice their complaints; they changed the world.
Read more: Time.com |
For
“once again becoming a maker of history” two sleepy decades after political
soothsayer Francis Fukuyama declared Western liberalism the end point in the
evolution of human society, Time magazine named “The Protester” 2011’s Person
of the Year.
Nathan
Schneider, author and editor with a number of publishing outfits—including
‘Waging Nonviolence,’ a blog devoted to analysis of nonviolent movements around
the world—was pleased with Time’s decision. He pointed out, however,
that the mainstream American press was slow to get to the uprisings at home and
beyond: “As I first saw this announcement percolating on Twitter, being spread
around proudly every which way by Occupy Wall Street-allied accounts, all I
could think was: What took you so long? Where were you?” he asked.
“Where,
I mean to say, was the American press when Tunisia—or Egypt—first started
lighting up,” he continued, “when we at Waging Nonviolence were glued to
Al-Jazeera and our Twitter feeds, wishing we had the means to be there
ourselves? In the American news, the start of those revolutions was hardly a
blip—that is, until Anderson Cooper got beaten up in Cairo.” —ARK [ Truthdig.com ]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The One Percent
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Music: Sleepers Awake! - Johann Sebastian Bach
Greed is a bottomless pit, which exhausts the person in an endless
effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich
Fromm
“The old get older
And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over” Come on!
Jim Morrison / The Doors
"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
15.o - III
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we
exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we
exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act
and not react.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who
cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than
he takes out.”
~George Bernard Shaw
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
15.o - II
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| #WORLDREVOLUTION “Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
~Aristotle “You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, Not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
~Abbie Hoffman Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
~Herbert Marcuse. One-dimensional man. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~Edgar Allan Poe |
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
15.o - I
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| ( Today the words are not carried away by the wind ) |
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| 15.O ctober Mexico |
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| ( The impossible has already started ) |
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| ( When The 99 % Move, The 1 % Fall ) |
On 15th October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people.
Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change.
In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity - the G 7,000,000,000.
Lorenzo:
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85). William Shakespeare
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