Just look at the logic behind the BP oil spill. Here was this endeavor entailing the drilling of an oil-well head 5,000 feet beneath the water and, I believe another 19,000 feet below that" The drilling of this well, and other wells like it, is just another facet of natural resources being in a place where Empire is going to get them no matter what. Here was this giant oil reservoir, it was extremely dangerous to drill there, with a high likelihood for disaster, and, you know, the attitude was: "Well that's too bad, we're gonna drill anyway, "cause look at all the money we'll make"' And for the record, I think all this talk is horribly depressing, but we have to look at all this clearly if we're going to behave accordingly, and that means understanding that writing a letter to a senator, if we think that's gonna change things, well we don't have all the facts.
FJS: What will work, what will change things?
DJ: I don't really have an answer for that. But we all have to realize that we're all complicit in this. We all have to start looking at what we can do to withdraw our support for this economy. Buying less crap, driving less, growing our own food and of course more radical direct action targeting corporations and the officials who represent them. A message needs to be sent to these people expressing that they will pay a price if they keep behaving the way they are. I'll leave the rest to peoples' imagination.
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