It's time for a day of action. Something. Some sort of action.

Historically low taxes for the rich, while taxes are raised on the working poor, heating subsidies cut for the poor while zero is done to stop the latest Goldman-Sachs-created oil price bubble, and a savage attack on Social Security. Two pointless wars of aggression for almost a decade, health care rationed to all but the wealthiest.

Fuck this shit.

I'm glad that we at least have an adult in the White House - God forbid we have some asshat like FDR.

I'll show up with a pitchfork and torch if some others will join me. Anyone with me?

It's time that people turned off "American Idol" and woke the fuck up...

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a group who can generate some impressive and large amounts of messaging -- i don't think it will happen.

you might try getting in touch with jim{?} hightower.
and see if he'd be interested.

So there.

Cut cut cut... Cut everything that benefit the poor and working class. What are the rich giving up? Why do they complain about taxes when there are who go as far as sacrificing their lives for this country? Outsourcing especially during a time crisis clearly shows they have absolutely no allegiance to this nation. Somehow they CONvince people to go against their own interest.

To accomplish this, it is necessary to inculcate in the vast majority an illusion of political power that is inconsistent with actuality. A slave who is comfortable in his slavery, who believes he is free, is far less likely to rebel against his oppressor. In an empire, "Democracy" is little more than a dog and pony show.

The next revolution in human governance needs to be more than a mere "political" revolution. It needs to be a revolution in human awareness and understanding of what is possible in terms of the benefits of social organizations that are equal, diverse as well as socially and environmentally sustainable. The next revolution needs to be a structural revolution -- one that completely realigns our thinking with the actuality of social and environmental necessity. It needs to be a revolution of quality, not merely quantity. In other words, the focus must shift from valuing "how much" one has (whether things, wealth, power or what have you) to the QUALITY of a social life shared by all. A life lived in peace with one's neighbors (social and ecological environment) is qualitatively better than a life lived in conflict, for example. This is a revolutionary thought, a revolutionary awareness.

If we pay attention, we'll begin to see that it is coming. It may not look like revolutions of the past. In fact, how could it, since to be truly revolutionary it must not be merely an exchange of one oppressive group or ideology for another. It must be far more fundamental, structural, something that to our minds may at first seem "counter intuitive" or simply "far fetched" or "Impossible". The fact is, though, the revolution I'm speaking of is here. The very fact that we can have this conversation and not even know who the other is, is part of it but only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The future will not look like the past and that is what those who want to control the future by sustaining their hegemony fear the most.

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Even though I know it is a profound and deep-seated addiction that may have been induced in childhood:

I suggest that people make a statement by canceling their satellite/cable TV subscriptions. I already see a lot of junk mail pushing both aggressively now and it makes me wonder how their numbers are going when people have to choose between TV and necessities.

I think that the Corporate Occupation would be very concerned by a diminishing amount of voluntary access to their propaganda outlets.

protesting politicians is about as effective as beating up a valet parking guy--it's not where the power is. Climb up the string from the puppets to the puppetmasters and give them hell.

It's hard to stay awake to make the plan. we are numbed, dumbed into submission.