b. medusa 29 August 2007 10:45:51 pm
on this day between blogger birthdays, i want to point out a couple of offerings from the internetz.
first, from this post by babywhisperingloudly:
My immediate and visceral reaction is one of acute awareness that standing together is key to demonstrating just how pervasive and insidious and bound up our collective realities are. Before we can move to the next step we need to grab hold of this reality and do something with it. Not seeing how we are all interrelated is the only thing that keeps us down. Not reaching out to others to learn more deeply about their pain and anguish, keeps us sheltered. We need each other for confidence building and love-giving and voice lending. We can’t do it alone. Because alone, we are just an anomaly or freaks or victims.
And Saul Alinsky reaffirmed this radical concept of the power lying with the people, when he wrote:”Through a process of combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a ‘mass army’ that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.” A true revolution really takes a cross section of the prevailing ills in our society before it can become an awesome and powerful force that must be reckoned with because it will never go away. That is, once we are aware of each others existence, the game begins.
and from the freeslave this:
Your self-hate is programmed, synthesized and output as religious piety, political reverie or pseudo-nationalistic fanaticism. Your dividing yourselves into different classes and sub-classes as human beings is a classic symptom of ‘divide and conquer strategy’ and the ruling class’ wet dream: “dreaming negroes vs. real black folks,” “assimilationists versus the pro-black clergy,” “liberal stooges vs. conservative cadavers.”
This is a mind divided against itself. A mind that gives thinking a bad name. An educated fool. You will know them by the contradictory nature of everything they say; ultimately, they will siphon discourse into a well-meaning cesspool of negativity, a cesspool educated and trained into them. Scientifically.
Check.
and this:
But what do we do? Where’s the plan? How many of us still have the illusion that this monstrosity can be tweaked? That the Democrats are an alternative? Or that they can be moved to really take on OUR concerns?!
We ain’t going anywhere until we put the baby bottle down. The baby bottle is our belief that ANYTHING presented to us as the proper channel for our activism is real or designed to give us what we want. The baby bottle is our naivete, our religious faith in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, Reverend Al, Al Gore, Amy Goodman, Jesse Jackson or Cindy Sheehan.
You don’t get free with, or by proxies. You only get free when you absolutely, positively must be free and then snatch it for yourself. You have to become an outlaw, a runaway slave. And no slave gets truly free if they believe the master has created “some good” on his plantation that can be taken advantage.
these are the kind of thoughts that give me a reason to get up & go on each day, a reason to continue the struggle. please follow the links above & read the full posts.
i leave you with a piece of original art/poetry by my significant other, Jahhannibal:
(© 1995-2009 Jahhannibal Abba-Ra. All rights reserved.)
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Now playing: Gil Scott-Heron – Winter In America (solo version)
via FoxyTunes
)![[concert flyer]](http://mnemosyne-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/concert_flyer.jpg)
![[living wages flyer]](http://mnemosyne-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/living_wage_flyer.jpg)
so according to all that i shouldn’t even need this on my tap right? ah, but a look @ the 
