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alto a las guerras!
i signed up to volunteer for the los angeles anti-war protest happening march 20th worldwide. i encourage anyone and everyone to come down to show solidarity for the much needed anti-war movement. the la protest is saturday march 20, 12 noon, meeting at hollywood and vine. visit answerla.org for more information. much love is needed!
watching a couple of dicks.
i wrote my first blog for the jointreview today.. its my two cents on the new movie “cop out”.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman (via loudandsoft)
Abbie Hoffman (via loudandsoft)
i gotta say- seeing guys like Anthony Weiner addressing the house of representatives like this warms my heart.. why can’t the rest of the democrats be more like him?!
okay, this song has been playing in my head since wednesday. pretty great song. i guess thats all i have to say about that..
We should look for a peace movement to join. Really, look for some peace organization to join. It will look small at first, and pitiful and helpless, but that’s how movements start. That’s how the movement against the Vietnam War started. It started with handfuls of people who thought they were helpless, thought they were powerless. But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power. When workers go on strike, huge corporations lose their power. When consumers boycott, huge business establishments have to give in. When soldiers refuse to fight, as so many soldiers did in Vietnam, so many deserters, so many fraggings, acts of violence by enlisted men against officers in Vietnam, B-52 pilots refusing to fly bombing missions anymore, war can’t go on.
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
a manifesto of sorts…
okay, so lately ive been getting this strong feeling that something big is about to break through our american culture. maybe its because i saw that movie 2012 or something, but i like to think there is something far more complex in store for us. some “experts” say that in the year 2012 rather than a mass apocalypse, there will be a radical shift in consciousness. i personally like this prediction much better (although i do find “the lizard people planet invasion” theories quite entertaining) and i think thats what america needs more than anything.
in light of the recent passing of the great howard zinn, ive decided to finally finish the second half of “the people’s history”. revisiting the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, along with the rise of the hippies and counterculture of the sixties gives me the notion that this country needs another movement- a stronger, faster and more effective movement that has never been seen before. i mean, why not? we have vast amounts of information at our instant disposal, technology is getting outright ridiculous at this point, and there is more people than ever. however, the sixties had problems like segregation in the south and the draft which acted as catalysts for these massive grassroots movements to form. where is our catalyst? the majority of america lives in a state of apathy driven by the consumerist culture that our mass media propagates relentlessly. this is not to say i somehow live above or outside this culture in any way and i will be the first to admit that american culture is very much a part of who i am, but i think it is about time for the end to apathy. it is time for us as consumers to start making conscious decisions when it comes to our consumerism. it is time for the end to anti-intellectualism that seems to be glorified by the ignorant in this country. it is time for us as americans to hold our government responsible for the actions that are made funded by our tax dollars and held in our name.
i have absolutely no idea where to begin, but every movement needs to begin somewhere. why not a blog- seems simple enough. i know im not the only person who shares these ideas, not by a long shot. so i guess all i have left to ask is: who’s down for a revolution?
