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

Monday, February 20, 2012

Massivity: over a million protest labor reforms in Spain

Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution. 


Hundreds of thousands fill up Spain’s squares in the first mass mobilization against the radical labor market reforms of Rajoy’s new government.
Because millions of Spanish workers, who are already suffering the "slings and arrows of outrageous [neoliberal] fortune", are witnessing the neoliberal attack on Greek workers, they are preparing for their class war.