- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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You May Be an Anarchist — And Not Even Know It
I was digging around the archive at the online Anarchist Library today and found an interesting conversation between Derrick Jensen and anarchist theorist John Zerzan, who suggests that modern society has subjugated the populace to the point that it no longer even sees the bars of its cage. The entire interview, especially a discussion of time and the “subtle coercion of the clock,” is quite interesting and I encourage readers to click through and take in the entire piece. Anarchism, along … Continue reading
Quote of the Day: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
This is the beginning—from “I” to “we”. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”, and cuts you off forever from the “we”. ~ John Steinbeck, Chapter 14, The Grapes of Wrath
Call Me Commie, But I Like the Idea of a Maximum Wage
Reposted from Climate & Capitalism Enough is enough! It’s time for a maximum wage, by Sam Pizzigati The Occupy Wall Street movement hasn’t yet demanded a cap on individual income but it probably will. Ever since the “golden age” after the Civil War, great American popular surges for economic justice always come to demand an income cap, now called a “maximum wage”. This is more than a cap on salary, it means total annual income; and the term derives from the … Continue reading
If Jesus Came Back in the USA
Someone posted the following comment somewhere on the Internet the other day. I liked it and saved it here to see if I could add anything to it. Unfortunately, I didn’t copy the source, so I don’t know who to credit, but whoever they are; they’re absolutely right. “Can you imagine the absolute shit-storm that would blow up if Jesus came back and started preaching the same old things he did before but in the USA ? Can you hear the … Continue reading →