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

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The GM ignition defect settlement and capitalist “justice”

Click here to access article by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site

Martin points to the inconsistent application of the Supreme Court's ridiculous decision that corporations are people and enjoy the same Constitutional rights as people. However when a corporation make products that end up killing people, destroying the environment, etc, instead of jailing corporate officials, the corporation merely gets slapped with a fine.