The Man From The North: How to Fight a Tyrant by Rivera Sun

The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 8, 2013

Olympia Port Militarization Protest - November 10th, 2007

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The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today”, when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship. In spite of severe surveillance and repression, the Man From the North’s banned articles circulate through the American populace, reporting on resistance and fomenting nonviolent revolution. This article is one of a series written by The Man From the North, which are not included in the novel, but can be read here.

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Chris Hedges: Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded, Part 2

Graffiti "4 More Years of Fascism"

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Dec 7, 2013

On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any eruption will be nihilistic and could be fascist.

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