Social Security or Military Empire?
You have likely been receiving many email appeals to call Congress about
the so-called "fiscal cliff variety show" now running in the media.
I am convinced that it is a largely scripted process whereby the two
corporate controlled political parties do their dance and then continue to hack
away at social progress.
We had just recently heard the Congress and Obama talk about the need for
$50 billion in Pentagon cuts each year for the next 10 years. Chump change in
the grand scheme of things. Now even that slim number is being cut in half in
order to please their military industrial complex masters. It could be even
lowered still to virtually no military cuts. After all, the Pentagon is
targeting Syria and Iran next and needs all the $$$ it can get.
We've each got to do more.....and this will be an ongoing process. Just
see Greece and other nations where the bankers are re-accumulating cash as they
break societies down to the bone. We are being hollowed out as well and we will
virtually all be brought onto the reservation.
I urge you to do something immediately - even if you feel like it is a
waste of time. We have to get the people out of their frozen state and each
time we crack the ice a bit we move just a bit further along.
I'd first ask you to sign the
petition to Congress here.
Write a letter to editor of your local newspaper. The free
weeklies often have larger circulation than the daily papers do. My letter was
published in my local paper yesterday.
Organize a meeting locally and statewide to bring all the
losing parties together so that we can begin to know one another and begin to
work together. The old business model of organizing - every organization for
themselves - is not going to make it for us any more. We've got to continue the
work Occupy started of connecting the dots. Except this time one of the dots
that often gets left out - the U.S. military empire and its insatiable fossil
fuel diet - has to become part of the organizing equation.
Hopefully your organizing will lead to action. Here in
Maine, just last Saturday, 40 keys local leaders met in our state capital of
Augusta. We named ourselves the Maine Alliance for the Common Good. There were
people in the room that we don't always work with. Not everyone we invited came
but it was a good start. A demonstration at the state capital was planned for
January 8 and we intend to connect all the dots this time.
We also have to make a pledge to one another that we will stop swallowing
the B.S. from the media and the two corporate political parties. We have to
pledge to each other that we won't serve two masters at the same time. People
have to choose between being apologists for the corporate agenda or get onboard
for all of humanity and the environment.
We have serious problems and an honest assessment cannot leave one to
be overly optimistic. But we have a little two-year-old
running around the kitchen as I write this. She is a part of our house's
extended community. She is a bright and joyful child who we've come to adore
like our own. We have to be fighting for her now. And our Mother Earth is in
toxic shock. One day she is cold with shivers and the next day she is sweating
in fever. The weather here in Maine has never been so strange. We must act and
act again. Nothing is more important.
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