Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Chris Hedges: Rise Up or Die

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35022.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+%22This+Is+An+Outrage+For+All+America%22&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

GT sez:

YES FOLKS, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW AT. 

READ THIS AND BELIEVE IT.

THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO WASTE WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE.

WE EITHER FIGHT BACK NOW, OR DIE AS COWARDS.

We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. We have been stripped of the power to express dissent or effect change. Rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.

Rebel. Even if you fail, even if we all fail, we will have asserted against the corporate forces of exploitation and death our ultimate dignity as human beings. We will have defended what is sacred. Rebellion means steadfast defiance. It means resisting just as have Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, just as has Mumia Abu-Jamal, the radical journalist whom Cornel WestJames Cone and I visited in prison last week in Frackville, Pa. It means refusing to succumb to fear. It means refusing to surrender, even if you find yourself, like Manning and Abu-Jamal, caged like an animal. It means saying no. To remain safe, to remain “innocent” in the eyes of the law in this moment in history is to be complicit in a monstrous evil.

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