May Day 2012 and the Indian Spring: A Day Without America’s Outsourced Jobs?
How will Americans feel when they act in solidarity, during the May Day 2012 actions, with the very people whom are the recipients of the lost jobs Americans mourn? Will they think that their brothers and sisters on the other side of the planet mock them? Or, that they are simply the victims if a […]
Occupy Religion: Don’t Let Religion Occupy You
Religion, and religious institutions, are not only granted undeserved credit for their role in social movements, but are also not afforded the responsibility they deserve for the damage they inflict to the movements they infect, and the communities represented by those movements. Christians are all too ready to yell about the involvement of Islamic organizations […]
May Day 2012: The Only Way Forward May be to Stop
The global demonstrations of May Day have long been ignored in America. A day set aside for the voice of workers has been replaced by a day, recognized four months later on the calendar, of sales, BBQ’s, and a time to stop wearing white pants. The Occupy Movement, along with many others fighting on behalf […]
2012 Financial Prediction: More of the Same but Worse
Those that produce nothing are making more, and more, while those that produce everything are making less, and less… money, that is. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We allow it to happen. We know that we were fleeced, robbed, and extorted, not only in 2007, the most obvious recent example of the […]
Borders: The Constructs of Fearful Greedy Children
What we accept as a necessary reality, the division of our planet into exclusive domains, is nothing more than a throw-back to the days of rival Chieftains and Warlords. Tribal thugs. Brutish marauders. We look at our history with a sense of arrogance, assured of our own superiority over our less enlightened ancestors. We wince at […]
