THIS STORM is unfolding as it will, and we are yet to see how it will end. The electricity feels threatening at times. But here is a chance, now, finally to talk about the things we need to talk about. Which means the chance to make real change.
BACK ONLINE and styling in the full nine, let’s get our Unapologetic Roundup on. Today we have news of Brad Will’s murder and the ongoing coverup, a brief regrettable whiff of the Anus of Fascism, Dream teaming and recording scenes in the desert, the real criminals at the border, and a little bit of NAFTA-dancing.
I NURTURE A SUDDEN AND UNREASONABLE HOPE that we can institute behavior incompatible with the larger and more destructive behaviors of our culture as well as cast off the illusion that makes so many give up before they might have a chance to start.
NATION OF IMMIGRANTS, MEET LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. It is a combination that has sometimes resulted in some amazing happenings. Behold the United States of America, itself! Although to tell the true story of “America,” we’d have to talk about a whole lot of exploitation of brown people, wouldn’t we?
JUST AS A WALL that keeps the poor in place in our own cities and towns and marks the divide where law enforcement begins caring a whole lot more about property and people, so do the borders operate in our world. This entrenched and justified divide is a crime in and of itself. All the rest that follows is fallout.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WOULD BE a faction of people so wed to their own racist thought patterns they would be incapable of dealing with the fact that a non-white person was president of the US. I guess I thought they’d be a bit more honest about it.
THIS IS NOT the first time in history that those with power looking only toward their own profit margin have unwittingly led their hand to disastrous effects on larger populations’ basic ability to live.
THE TELESCREENS WORK ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION. The conversations are filtered, edited, neutered for your own protection. Even when we discuss such pivotal and worldshaking events as this economic malfunction we are rarely talking without misdirection. So much dialogue spat out in the service of maintaining so much division. It’s time to look to the building blocks of these quaking towers and reconfigure the entire equation.
ONE OF THE THINGS that hit me in a “real” place about bush—aside from my protesting him and getting locked up over it—was watching him gut programs like the one that helped local teenage girls who were pregnant and needed housing. A fire lit in me that day that threatened to eat my heart alive.
THERE ARE GROWING MOVEMENTS to unify and leverage our collective voices and stories and power. You see it in many places, in different shapes. Many are working together for a better day. And then, of course, you have those forces that never tire of trying to divide and harm us…
THE TAKEOVER STRIKE has long been a function of Latin American worker solidarity. Occupying schools and workplaces when injustice is doled out is a regular function south of the border. We’ve seen it from Puerto Rico to México, from Tlaltelolco to Oaxaca. Today, we see it in Chicago, USA…
CHANGE is coming for the world. Neoliberalism is crashing, Free Market Philosophies are crashing, Wall Street is crashing: All the mechanisms in place that are best at making the rich richer and the powerful more powerful and the poor poorer are collapsing. Posturing Palin is on TV telling the commoners they need to support the party of elitism, and Evo Morales is doing just the opposite.
THESE HIERARCHIES ARE SO IMPORTANT. It’s always about who you can bring in to do the work or who you gonna round up to take away from the table. Later when you have a booming economic engine of might, claim America was assembled in America and entirely by white pioneers who had a dream and simply worked hard to make it happen. That way, when things falter, you know who to blame. Others.
SHE PAUSED FOR A BEAT and in a confessional tone began talking about how she had been supporting McCain but very recently had begun having second thoughts about that. This was clearly a bombshell dropping in her own life. This person is 65 years old and I could tell just by the way she was talking that this was no small decision to her.
WHO ARE THE REAL CONQUERORS who think they are better than everyone, Mister Republican? Who are the real conquerors, dropping economic and actual bombs on those they feel are below them in station and worth? Who are the real conquerors, still whispering and hissing into the ears of those below them, still stirring up divisions to keep themselves at the business end of a yoke?
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
