We will enforce fairness and decency in the places of power.
We will deny to the wealthy few the privilege of lives outside the law.
We will free ourselves of the burdens of wars we cannot afford, and of parasites who take with both hands and give nothing.
We will remove our energies from the causes of death and greed, and give our energies to the causes of life and hope.
We will do this in many ways; some will march, some will occupy, some will teach, some will heal; some will simply do what they have always done, fairly and decently, but also speak truth to power.
We will do these things as a creative and joyful community. There will be no need for violence.
After we are done, there will be time and place for all the various things we might want.
Yes. Now.
ReplyDeleteThe NY Timns published an interview with Philip Levine in which he said, "There’s a kind of Protestant ethic that believes that if you’re really a good person, God will reward you with a full table and a garage full of automobiles and a beautiful husband or wife — that we should be judged by what the world has delivered to us."
ReplyDeleteForce majeure for the 21st century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/philip-levine-still-knows-how-to-make-trouble.html