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Arabica Robusta

Going Back to My Pueblo | The Democracy Center - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • So now the U.S. has become a nation of people driving around in gas-guzzling vehicles listening to the radio and cursing the evildoers at BP.  The addicts are cursing their dealer on their way to their next fill-up.
  • I sat for a coffee (another of my addictions) with one of my heroes, Antonia Juhasz, a longtime activist on oil issues.  Antonia quickly jumped into the fray on the Gulf disaster, to help people understand the bigger picture.  When she showed up in Houston a week ago for the Chevron shareholders’ meeting (legally entitled as a shareholder) Chevron had the Houston police throw her in jail for 24 hours.  Have a look at the coverage of the arrests on Democracy Now.
  • While in San Francisco I was invited to speak at a progressive conference that made me uneasy.  It was an expression I heard there actually that got to me.  Over and over people would describe the gathering as, “a safe space to talk about…” whatever the thing was they wanted to talk about.  I finally realized what people meant by the term “safe space” – a venue in which one could express a point of view and not have its basic assumptions challenged. 
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  • People on the left sometimes like gatherings like these, where people’s definitions of justice and freedom are pretty much the same.  The Cochabamba Climate Summit was like this.  On the right activists like such gatherings as well, as one can witness with the rise of the Tea Party.  We divide ourselves into similar camps in the news sources we seek – aficionados of the Huffington Post safely separated from the viewers of Fox News.  Actually, I think we need right now is less “safe spaces’ and more risky ones. 
  • Ronald Reagan liked to say that the most terrifying words in the English language were, “I am from the government and I am here to help.”  Now those have been replaced with, “I am from a large global corporation and I know what I am doing.”  For the left, attacking the company is as easy as munching on a yogurt-covered pretzel.  For the right it is becoming an acquired taste, as evident by today’s hearings in Congress.
  • Arabica Robusta on 11 Jul 10
     
    So now the U.S. has become a nation of people driving around in gas-guzzling vehicles listening to the radio and cursing the evildoers at BP.  The addicts are cursing their dealer on their way to their next fill-up.
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