I bet you thought I was about to talk about the Ecology and some concocted war concerning it. Well I am, sorta but you will need to read further before we get to that part. Please bare with me before you switch channels or nod off to sleep. For now I'm talking about the economy. Wars are not always fought with bombs, bullets and dead bodies. They can be fought with dollars/currency.
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
5 minute Video clip, on a small group of concerned citizens in relation to the humanistic neo-regulations of the FDA in regards to the crime of "raw milk" ...
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
There's a term for the present American system: "Totalizing." That means that consumerism/militarism comes all the way across the landscape - into every nook and cranny. It kills all the smaller systems, like the neighborhood economies, the gift-economies.
A short visually proportionate pictorial on the actual dimensions of one trillion US Dollars ... for novelty purposes only ... click tab on bottom for total US debt view as well.
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense! When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won't be separate powers anymore.
Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? … are things so bad?
Sky thunderous, dark; the river raging black
Trembling land under foot, starting to crack
Rolling ominous clouds, lightening clap
Will the day’s sun ever come back
How long will tumultuous conditions last
Human patience for change is wanning fast
Resources to survival limited by contrast
Political will to remedy scarce, but much bombast
What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, this is now an American fact of life. Yes - corporate researchers have discovered a circuit in our brains that actuates our shopping.
Sometimes people come up to me and ask “The Church of Earthalujah...what is that? Is it a political rally? Is it a real church? Is it a comedy sketch? What is it?!”
For those of this blog community that were around to watch the infamous movie Logan’s Run (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/) that hit the movie-theaters back in 1976 or has been watched more recently as a late-night movie, the basic premise was that of an ‘idyllic sci-fi future with one major draw-back: life must end at the age of 30.’
Just see how paying a little attention to the appropriate use of law can turn the tables. How our own inertial slumber in relation to the whole law making process, from participation in introducing policy ... all the way to activism ... how much potential for change there really is.
Sky thunderous, dark; the river raging black
Trembling land under foot, starting to crack
Rolling ominous clouds, lightening clap
Will the day’s sun ever come back
How long will tumultuous conditions last
Human patience for change is waning fast
Resources to survival limited by contrast
Political will to remedy scarce, but much bombast
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
