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April 7, 2009 at 14:07:51

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You Don't Have to be a Chomsky to Know Something is Wrong...

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The squalor and apartheid in Gaza is truly horrible but, to mix a metaphor, focusing too much on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is like hacking at the branches on the ship of fools. The involvement of the U.S. government is clear with this problem (as it is with so many others -- wars, famine, sweatshop slavery, and environmental disasters all over the world). Nuclear weapons continue to be produced, proliferated and perfected with broad taxpayer support. Environmental scientists are the equivalent of modern day Cassandras to whom the masses give only token credence while humanity is on the brink of an unprecedented historical disaster which will pale the black death. On the heavily surveilled State Street, in Madison, WI., we have sweatshop storefronts and the worst forms of consumerism. These are the ways in which the masses are made complicit and these are the things which we must actively resist and overtly oppose. We need something beyond dispassionate lectures, hollow petitions, and milquetoast reforms. We need a comprehensive and radical dismantling of this system of war, famine, slavery and environmental devastation. We need subtle and pointed organization, locally, in various forms, of street-level revolt.

 

Ray Louis is an aging, burnt-out, radical activist. He is of the opinion that most people have no idea how harsh and brutal the government is because they have never really done anything to resist or oppose it. While he doesn't at all engage in the (more...)
 

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Amen, bruther! by Trailing Begonia on Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:32:28 PM
Just got to see Chomsky... by R. A. Louis on Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:58:00 PM
Indeed this position raised my eyebrows... by R. A. Louis on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:03:42 AM
A serious problem... by R. A. Louis on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12:05 AM
Significant reduction by Perry Logan on Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:49:31 AM
It is my understanding that... by R. A. Louis on Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:32:10 AM
Yeah... by R. A. Louis on Sunday, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:54:50 PM
yup by William Whitten on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:30:27 AM
You may be correct. I just don't know. by R. A. Louis on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:30:37 AM
REPEATEDLY by WML on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:33:40 PM
I don't know... by R. A. Louis on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:44:56 PM
We are in the crunch right now for a reason by nightgaunt on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:20:07 PM

 
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