by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
April 4, 2011
used with permission
photo by William Bowles
http://williambowles.info/
The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left.
We will not halt the laying off of teachers and other public employees, the slashing of unemployment benefits, the closing of public libraries, the reduction of student loans, the foreclosures, the gutting of public education and early childhood programs or the dismantling of basic social services such as heating assistance for the elderly until we start to carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience against the financial institutions responsible for our debacle.
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Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He has written nine books, including Death of the Liberal Class, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009) and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003).
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I love UKuncut, they are in the credits at the end of my video
I made a music video for one of my anti-banker songs at the London protest. You can see me singing infront of riot police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPJ45kmDz8 Zombie Bank Death Squad . com
I LOVE it, Tony. Thanks for sharing with us. Keep up the fabulous work!
Thanks!
I like the idea of making people smile while those four words re-program their minds. It worked on my mates nan!
Your welcome to shamelessly promote it, I don’t mind 🙂
I really do love this video. Excellent work, Tony. Just put a link to it on my Facebook wall.
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while millions of brave souls world wide risk their lives taking to the streets protesting their governments,which in reality are put in/proped up by the same people that control our polititions,press,army and are destroying this rerpublic and the world!!!!!!that said,not since the 70s have massive amounts of american citizens taken to the streets to stop&put an end to this madness,and the last three generations have been all talk,no actionaa7 because of that these greedy madmen have been allowed to do anythink they want,with hardly a peep from the so called citizens of this piece of crap country!!!!!! shame on us all!!!!!!
So true… The woodstock generation has become complacent, but there is hope in Labor!! There is hope that the bests combination of Romes idealist Republic and the Greeks principles of Democracy can work in the great American experiment in Democracy.