263) Day 31 -- Reason #31 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism:  Manufacturing Consent, Part 3 -- We are in the fight for our lives.

263) Day 31 -- Reason #31 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Manufacturing Consent, Part 3 -- We are in the fight for our lives.

Progressive ideals, of socialism and community, feminism and human rights, gender and cultural diversity, have become, like communism in the 1950s and “radical Islam” of the 2000s’ War on Terror, key targets for attack by the Powerful, in order to quell dissent and control the population.

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257) Day 25 -- Reason #25 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism:  Civil Rights and the Fight for Freedom

257) Day 25 -- Reason #25 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Civil Rights and the Fight for Freedom

So yes, let’s use the connections we have to resist what’s happening. It’s almost 1939 now. We do not want to repeat that history. Remember all the deaths? Remember all the ceremonies we’ve had, our whole lives, honouring those sacrifices?

There has to be a way through this, together. And we HAVE TO stop being complacent.

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108) War, Part 4:  Solutions?

108) War, Part 4: Solutions?

It seems to me that war stops only when one of two conditions are met.  Neither of these conditions are very likely, or easy.  They are definitely easy to critique, easy to dismiss.  But the alternative, as we discussed previously, is more war in a world, bristling with weapons, poised on the brink of global ecological collapse. So….yeah, we can have that, or we can figure out which of the following conditions we are most likely to be able to meet.

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6) Something Positive

6) Something Positive

I believe people are yearning to feel hope, joy, love, to unselfconsciously embrace, inhale, and celebrate life.  I believe people want to stop passively absorbing and consuming, and instead, becoming ACTIVE PRODUCERS of culture.  It’s like, when did we stop painting and drawing and singing and making poetry, so that we could….sit in Starbucks drinking overpriced coffee with our friends?  When did going outside get sacrificed to surfing other people’s pics on Facebook?

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