A New Way Forward Pt. 4 [With Sunday Roundup]

MUCHAS GRACIAS to the (five ultra-cool) readers who came together with sticks and farm animals to help me fend off the invading Comcastadors! Also big thanks to the people who just emailed words of comfort.

Since we are back stylin online in the full nine and divested of our messy stress vest, let’s do a roundup just to get things back in motion.

But first real quick I’d like to say that I always love working this way. I do not, of course, mean getting anxious and having utilities turned off. And yes, of course I feel good to deal with the immediate problem.

But on top of that, I’m not joking when I wrote that text below on this page, near the tamale photo: “It’s the new US culture” about barter or back and forthing between friends, rather than relying on soulless systems that end up funneling money into exploitative third parties. (Touched on it here, too.) These liaisons keeping humans from power. Banks, National colluding impersonal credit systems, corporations, Agricultural system, Priests. All liaisons that have us believe we need them to even do certain things at all.

Versus situations like the Tanda. Where we just do it between us.

It won’t be the new US way. We already see what happens when the larger amount of us need things to be fairer to us and less fair to the massive corporate golems who skulk about our national and global affairs, yanking this and squashing that at will. A new way won’t usher itself in through law. We see who controls the legislative process.

But I love when I see us bringing it there just by doing. Community gardens, community credit, community barter. (More community “policing” and maybe we’d need to call those stun-gun wielding maniacs into our neighborhood and homes less. And by “policing” I mean looking out for kids around us, and for women getting beat up in their living situations and such.)

The people who helped me get through the moment here are people I also do things for in turn. Or would. Which is why I keep it in mind when, like Prerna wrote, good situations or orgs or people are getting started, or need a hand at the moment. Because it comes back to you.

So muchas gracias. I’m still going to need to try and raise some cash for the Netroots Nation trip, so I’ll make a graphic and pop that in under each post. But the immediate crisis is past.

Today is a writing day, so let me just highlight some news I found interesting and then get on my way…

[One link removed since this morning, as I added the wrong URL and can't find original.]

• Remember Brad Will? They are still trying to cover up his murder.

• Mobs and Right wing pundits who use the holocaust in conjunction with violence and violent energy leveled by the Corporate state and trying to shut down conversations crucial to the process of a health plan that would help the People? This is like the Anus of Fascism blinking at itself in a mirror and seeing God.

• I hope the White House doesn’t get TOO cozy with the Latino vote. Stuff like this will affect you, bro.

• Like so many cultures…when we come here, we begin to die...

• …unless we think of new ways forward. Vacillating, extended, shivering with dream…

• Workers at a steel plant in Mexico owned by ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, went on strike today. And that’s what I love about Mexicanos. We know how to use the force of our people. Boycott and strike are long time Latin American traditions. Recognize.

• Obama visits Mexico to talk immigration and drug war. Nations are now bickering in border tongue. Mexico still lying about the ocean of human rights abuses that their military and police engage in. US breaking laws contained in NAFTA that would help Mexico do a little better financially. Walls and papers still the order of the day. They are gonna skirt around NAFTA a lil bit but how close are they allowed to get to the truth? When will we connect the last dot as a People and when we do, how do we act to protect ourselves under the rule of such massive and well funded thugs? The business interests that control US and MX law=>The law that then calls out armies and ICE squads to fence in, jail, or kill the People suffering under those business interests.

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Peace out for now! Hope you’ve having a great day….