just a drop in the bucket
Yes, yes hows about some youth art for the brycc womens exhibit called Public Works>Private Ideas
...yes hows about some youth in the brycc art collective to do some of the work...
Really...all mustard aside...my idea is that the show can be parcelled into 2 distinct parts
one contemporary young women in the arts and a
a retrospective of Louisville Women Artists
enough about me...what about you?
I flipped through a million or so random journals
and only found 3 worth befriending. My brain
was working hard not to jabber on about the obvious access of the well-to-do with time to ponder shopping malls and meader about being bored
I dont need to offend people to try and feel
validated but i do have to wonder at the mundacity of kids in a "futureless" world who's motto seems to be: see now be now buy now
Kudos to Soulsong in England who said it like I would if someone bothered to ask...
If anyone doubts that peaceful protestors are being beaten up without provocation, even a reporter from the Sunday Times - the epitome of British establishment - discovered the truth of the matter. Arachne (arachne) quotes the article in her journal here.
I am not a supporter of violent protests. Not against people, not against property. I feel this way because I believe violence prevents a large number of people who would otherwise support the movement from doing so. And numbers are all important. Putting 100,000 people on the streets is impressive, but if you can get 1 million to protest peacefully, then I've not seen a government yet manage to resist that. Even Milosevic's forces in Belgrade never attacked the huge demonstrations against his continued rule in the way that the Italian police have attacked peaceful protestors over the last couple of days. If we want change we have to get hundreds of thousands into the streets peacefully for protests day after day after day. Until we can do that, then we have no mandate to demand change, frustrating as that may be.
Having said all this, I cannot and will not condemn the violent protestors either. I can easily understand their frustration and anger. Peaceful protests are easily ignored unless they are massive and continuous. The leaders of the G8 simply call us "misguided". They cannot offer us any sort of compromise because our complaint is against the G8's most basic and fundamental economic assumptions. So they must ignore us. This frustration, this exclusion from the political process because of the neoliberal consensus among the biggest parties, is what forces people towards a violent expression of their anger.
Because of this, the most important and fundamental change I would like to see in our world, is not a sudden revolution which runs the risk of replacing one oppressive government with another, but a new and real democratic process, rebuilt from the ground up, literally. Instead of voting for representatives who wield all the power and can choose when and how to devolve that power back down to the people, we must change the system so that power is held at the lowest level. Local parish and town councils should be the place where everyone who is interested in the running of their communities can come together and decide how they wish to live. The decisions and preferences of these communities should then be sent via delegation to regional councils, but only on those matters where a common approach is necessary across a wider area. And note that this must be delegation, in that the delegates are obliged to vote as their constituency demands, and can be recalled if they do not. Similarly the regional councils can send delegates to the national 'government' whose unifying role is dictated by the smaller councils, not the other way around.
If I was allowed to make one change to my country, this is what I would do.
I would not attempt to replace capitalism, I would simply ensure that the power to do so remains at all times in the hands of the people. There is clearly no way one could prescribe a replacement for capitalism in totality without creating another form of tyranny, therefore I would not attempt to do so.
The best and most flexible form of organisation is self-organisation. Let communities run themselves and make their own decisions as to how and when to federalise with those around them. Like nature itself, such a system is unpredictable, but enormously flexible, and, I believe, will bring a taste of freedom the like of which almost none of us have ever known.
Radical Eclectic adds:
We had all better look a little farther than here and now and make here and now connect up with this and then because we and our....
...yes hows about some youth in the brycc art collective to do some of the work...
Really...all mustard aside...my idea is that the show can be parcelled into 2 distinct parts
one contemporary young women in the arts and a
a retrospective of Louisville Women Artists
enough about me...what about you?
I flipped through a million or so random journals
and only found 3 worth befriending. My brain
was working hard not to jabber on about the obvious access of the well-to-do with time to ponder shopping malls and meader about being bored
I dont need to offend people to try and feel
validated but i do have to wonder at the mundacity of kids in a "futureless" world who's motto seems to be: see now be now buy now
Kudos to Soulsong in England who said it like I would if someone bothered to ask...
If anyone doubts that peaceful protestors are being beaten up without provocation, even a reporter from the Sunday Times - the epitome of British establishment - discovered the truth of the matter. Arachne (arachne) quotes the article in her journal here.
I am not a supporter of violent protests. Not against people, not against property. I feel this way because I believe violence prevents a large number of people who would otherwise support the movement from doing so. And numbers are all important. Putting 100,000 people on the streets is impressive, but if you can get 1 million to protest peacefully, then I've not seen a government yet manage to resist that. Even Milosevic's forces in Belgrade never attacked the huge demonstrations against his continued rule in the way that the Italian police have attacked peaceful protestors over the last couple of days. If we want change we have to get hundreds of thousands into the streets peacefully for protests day after day after day. Until we can do that, then we have no mandate to demand change, frustrating as that may be.
Having said all this, I cannot and will not condemn the violent protestors either. I can easily understand their frustration and anger. Peaceful protests are easily ignored unless they are massive and continuous. The leaders of the G8 simply call us "misguided". They cannot offer us any sort of compromise because our complaint is against the G8's most basic and fundamental economic assumptions. So they must ignore us. This frustration, this exclusion from the political process because of the neoliberal consensus among the biggest parties, is what forces people towards a violent expression of their anger.
Because of this, the most important and fundamental change I would like to see in our world, is not a sudden revolution which runs the risk of replacing one oppressive government with another, but a new and real democratic process, rebuilt from the ground up, literally. Instead of voting for representatives who wield all the power and can choose when and how to devolve that power back down to the people, we must change the system so that power is held at the lowest level. Local parish and town councils should be the place where everyone who is interested in the running of their communities can come together and decide how they wish to live. The decisions and preferences of these communities should then be sent via delegation to regional councils, but only on those matters where a common approach is necessary across a wider area. And note that this must be delegation, in that the delegates are obliged to vote as their constituency demands, and can be recalled if they do not. Similarly the regional councils can send delegates to the national 'government' whose unifying role is dictated by the smaller councils, not the other way around.
If I was allowed to make one change to my country, this is what I would do.
I would not attempt to replace capitalism, I would simply ensure that the power to do so remains at all times in the hands of the people. There is clearly no way one could prescribe a replacement for capitalism in totality without creating another form of tyranny, therefore I would not attempt to do so.
The best and most flexible form of organisation is self-organisation. Let communities run themselves and make their own decisions as to how and when to federalise with those around them. Like nature itself, such a system is unpredictable, but enormously flexible, and, I believe, will bring a taste of freedom the like of which almost none of us have ever known.
Radical Eclectic adds:
We had all better look a little farther than here and now and make here and now connect up with this and then because we and our....