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, November 3, 2012

The State of Human Rights in the U.S.A.

Click here to access source posting of 4:32m video interview with Michael Parenti, posted on Dandelion Salad.

The interview is a clip from a new film entitled "Long Distance Revolutionary" about the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal. In this interview Parenti fills in missing information about US human rights violations in a report issued by the US State Department.