Salon| “We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming — and soon
Hedges, June 4, 2015: If things unravel [in the U.S.], our backlash may very well be a rightwing backlash
Flowers and Zeese: US Democracy Crisis Creates Illegitimate Political System
Ninety percent! A near unanimous consensus about the lack of confidence in the US political system. The poll taken last month as the primary season comes to a close found ...
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
The book careens around the globe, diving into campaigns and surfacing to offer fresh and often surprising lessons, even when examining well-known events.
Chris Hedges: Revolution Is in the Air
The voices of citizens are rising from the streets of Washington and fracking sites in Colorado. They are rising from towns and cities such as Ferguson and Baltimore where police murders are terrorizing poor people of color. They are rising in Los Angeles from underpaid workers and the Dreamers. And these voices will, if we sustain and join them, become a deafening crescendo.
Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change and How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness
What are your thoughts on the election? The current hate-fest on the Left is just…kind of sad. The Left is famous for tearing itself apart. I’m not sure the purpose of that exercise. Hating on people has never been a great form of social change, so far as we know.
Salon| “We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming — and soon
Hedges: If things unravel [in the U.S.], our backlash may very well be a rightwing backlash — a very frightening rightwing backlash. We who care about populist movements [on the left] are very weak, because in the name of anti-communism these movements have been destroyed; we are almost trying to rebuild them from scratch. We don’t even have the language to describe the class warfare that is being unleashed upon us by this tiny, rapacious, oligarchic elite. But we on the left are very disorganized, unfocused, and without resources.
Popular Resistance: A Winning Strategy For The Left
From the article: Activists’ decision to target corporations reflects a growing conviction that the government is unresponsive to popular demands because it is unwilling or unable to stop the abuses of the corporate world (this view is supported by recent statistical findings that “the public has little or no influence” on policy). While these movements can change corporate behavior, we believe that they can also influence government policy in ways that direct pressure on politicians cannot.
AUDIO: Robert Sheer Interview | What Does Chris Hedges Really Want From Us?
Because what happens is that when you rise up, the elites can no longer count on the foot soldiers that maintain control both within the civil service, within the police and everywhere else, to protect them. mac_ivan (CC BY 2.0) truthdig.com May 9, 2015 [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204675196"] In advance of the May 12 release of More
Chris Hedges: Make the Rich Panic
“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives,” the historian C.L.R. James noted. And until you see the rich fleeing in panic from the halls of Congress, the temples of finance, the universities, the media conglomerates, the war industry and their exclusive gated communities and private clubs, all politics in America will be More
▶ “Revolution” The Beatles
Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out
▶ Nina Simone: Revolution
[youtube=http://youtu.be/gFBoKE9H3PA] Published on Feb 23, 2013 "Revolution" by Nina Simone Recording session: Unknown (possibly rehearsal for Olympia concert in 1968) Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Find us More
Metta Center: Roadmap To Personal Empowerment (to help create unstoppable movements)
... because it is not an easy task, we must join our hands together. The “Roadmap” is Metta Center’s attempt to offer three things to help create an unstoppable movement of movements: unity, strategy, and nonviolent power. By Staff Metta Center for Nonviolence www.mettacenter.org PopularResistance.org June 5th, 2014 Translations of this article are available on the More