DRIVING AMERICAN POLITICS UNDERGROUND In todays opinion piece, Chris Hedges discusses where to find real, actual politics today, as opposed to what passes for politics in our traditional political institutions, which he rightfully labels as nothing more than a carnival act. The call by the Climate Justice Alliance for a week of direct action, Sept. 17 through 24—coinciding with the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations summit—is politics. The coordinated activities during the same week known as Flood Wall Street are politics. The campaign by fast food workers for a livable wage is politics. The effort to block the Keystone XL pipeline is politics. The building of local food initiatives is politics. And there are many others. We must seek them out. We must embrace these groups to relearn what it means to be citizens and to participate in democracy. We must discredit and disrupt the system of faux politics that characterizes the corporate state. If we engage as citizens, rather than as spectators, if we reclaim politics, we might have a chance. truthdig/report/item/driving_american_politics_underground_20140907 To join the Liberty Underground news service go here: luvnews.info/Join.htm or join our Facebook group here: https://facebook/groups/461619557192964/ email: libertyuv@hotmail Tell your friends about LUV News because some people just dont get it
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:18:05 +0000