Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Elliot Abrams' Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Elliot Abrams' Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice

Click here to access article by Cyril Mychalejko from Upside Down World.

More and more recently released official US documents are being used by human rights activists in Latin America to bring their domestic perpetrators to trial. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the same thing could happen here in the US?

Well, it ain't going to happen as long as the political operatives of the One Percent remain in existence in the US. They are much too powerful, and their interests are not our interests! This means that we must work to remove the system of capitalism which their existence depends on.