tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post6534611741728858795..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Idly NoodlingChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-1269032633634705352011-10-03T13:07:24.885-07:002011-10-03T13:07:24.885-07:00[Sorry about the delay in getting your comment pos...[Sorry about the delay in getting your comment posted. I have no control over the Google/Blogger filters, and they drive me nuts! I see why so many people prefer alternative comment systems.]<br /><br />The Koch Brothers flouting the law? <i>No! Say it isn't so!</i> The thing is to bring them -- and all the rest of the Gods Who Walk Among Us -- to account. <br /><br />That's going to be the toughest nut to crack, and I think everybody involved in the current uprising knows it. I keep seeing things about how the protesters don't <i>understand</i> how long it will take and hard it will be. Of course they do. Oh my yes.<br /><br />Some of the oldest activists in this area were at the gathering I went to; they've been fighting the good fight most of their lives, and they're in their eighties now. They're not done yet. Lots of young people were there, too. All they had to do was look around. Nothing comes fast or easy in this realm.<br /><br />Exciting? Well, sure. This phase has been a long time coming but it didn't emerge from the vacuum. As somebody's shirt said the other day: "It's the Zeitgeist." Yes. Revolution is in the air. Everywhere around the world. "Occupy Everything!"<br /><br />I don't doubt there will be more phases to this global action. How it will evolve is anyone's guess right now. It's only been going on for about a year, starting in Europe, moving to North Africa, the United States (these are not the first "occupations" in the US this year by any means), back to Europe, off to the the Middle East, wending their way toward Asia. Our Latin American friends send their love. The international character is quite striking. <br /><br />The key to the success of the movement-becoming-revolution to me is that the participants are demonstrating a way to a better future. They're doing it. Protest is only a part of it, and not really the biggest part. More important is the global community being formed by people who know, like you do, what's really important.<br /><br />Hope there is an occupation near you and you can check it out for yourself.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />ChéChé Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-33362956107756946802011-10-03T10:58:17.399-07:002011-10-03T10:58:17.399-07:00Thanks for posting all of those links. Will add so...Thanks for posting all of those links. Will add some to my own site. <br /><br />It's all kinda exciting, taint it? <br /><br />:>)<br /><br />An actual movement, after decades of just "taking it"!!<br /><br />This thing has got to grow and grow and grow. It's just beyond insane that we ever, ever allowed a single billionaire to exist while people starved. "Getting rich" shouldn't even be on the table UNTIL we make sure no one is homeless, hungry, defenseless. Making millions shouldn't even be on the table UNTIL we make sure anyone who wants an education, or health care, or a clean environment, or safe streets, regardless of their ability to pay for it, gets those things. <br /><br />Then we can start talking about "making money."<br /><br />(Though, as you know, I'd prefer a radically different system altogether, anyway . . .)<br /><br />First things first. Guaranteed roof over your head, food in your belly, clothes on your back, a good-paying job, quality health care and education and clean water, land and air . . . and <i>then</i> we can discuss one's ability to make his or her fortune. But not until. <br /><br />And that means <i>all over the world</i>, not just here. <br /><br />. . . . <br /><br />BTW, not sure if you already saw this (about the Koch brothers), but it's another good sign that it's in a major media outlet:<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html?nr_email_referer=1<br /><br />Hope all is well --Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.com