but I sure wish a transcript were available.

Makes me ILL - the media's focus on Black Friday (or whatever flavor of the day) when it's a Black Future we ALL are falling headlong towards. I LOVE Hedges. You can CLEARLY see things unfolding as he lays them out...... and yet....... the general populace would rather cling to their football pools and bibles than consider the coup that's in it's final stages.

esp. with the Muslim greetings and all... at beginning and end of his talk.

It almost sounded like they were trying to edit those out, without being too
obvious about it.

I have nothing but admiration and respect for this man. Thank you Chris
for your clear and compelling voice for peace and justice, no matter whose
toes you are stepping on.

Now what? The time for political work is not over. Whether it is supporting Walmart workers, defending Social Security and Medicare from a "grand bargin" attempt to weaken them or continuing to defend our civil liberties along with folks like Chris Hedges, the work for progressives is not over. Let's get back to work.

It's not that they think that once they've voted, that the rest of governing will take care of itself. It's that this is tough citizenship stuff to hear for people who want to get on with the happy distractions of the holidays. My sense lately is that, as winter approaches, people need a break from engaging with power.

I'm called 'negative' and tedious because I also want the voters to press on. Besides pressing leaders to get some change in climate and renewable energy legislation, we've got to press forward to rescind major parts of the NDAA and Patriot Act that enable state and local officials to sic their police state on all kinds of public assembly in the forms of city hall sitins, Occupy, WalMart or Goldman Sachs protests. We've got to put a massive public stop to state violence against American citizens.