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, August 4, 2014

Old Mole Variety Hour August 4 2014 [two segments of the hour long program]

Click here to access this morning's broadcast of the "Old Mole Variety Hour" from KBOO radio station in Portland, Oregon. These are two segments that I highly recommend.

Segment One (from the start to 23:50m): Bill Resnick talks with local scholar of policing and government repression, Kristian Williams [author of Our Enemies in Blue], about how the police plant informants and provocateurs in leftists organizations, and how movements should deal with that.  

By the way, the new website created by Williams is "DCSC: thinking critically about security, surveillance, and counterinsurgency"

Segment Two (from 25:00m to 31:50m): Clayton Morgareidge offers a commentary on why liberals are not the change we want to see in the world.