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What Im planning to say via my bullhorn at todays weekly CODEPINK demonstration: John Stewart said it best last night: the real victor in this year’s elections was money. Opensecrets reports that at least 3.6 billion dollars were spent in this election season, mostly by big corporate donors to drown out our voices, the voices of the American people, and to air millions of hours of mind-numbing propaganda. Meanwhile, the journalistic outlets that ought to be serving as a corrective to this propaganda are instead complicit- either echoing the corporate talking points or distracting us with manufactured crises like ISIS and ebola. Don’t get me wrong- ISIS is a horribly destructive force, and the ebola epidemic in africa is a humanitarian crisis that should be the subject, of more western aid. Yet no credible policy analyst believes that U.S. intervention in Iraq and Syria will have any effect other than to further inflame anti-american sentiment and stoke violent responses around the world, just as U.S. drone strikes do as they continue to kill innocent people and terrorize communities in Pakistan and Yemen. And notwithstanding the hysteria, the detention of health workers, and the calls to close the border, Ebola is a foreign health and humanitarian crisis, not a serious threat to the American people! People of San Francisco, people of the bay area, don’t let them do this to us. Don’t let the corporate entities that own our politicians and our media distract us with manufactured crises and hysteria while they plunder our nation’s public assets, shred our safety net, destroy our climate and with it the rest of our environment, and perpetuate a foreign policy that continues, to make this nation synonymous with torture, extrajudicial killing, and the violation of the sovereignty of peoples around the world. These are hard economic times. In times like these, It’s easier to think in terms of external threats, of outside enemies, I know. That’s the major reason why hard conditions like these have throughout history been fertile ground for the rise of fascism and militarism. But the time has come to look within, at the corporate entities that are the root cause of our world’s problems and are spending billions to keep us from figuring that out because our strength, our education, our solidarity, our security, the strength of our communities, indeed the well-being of our environment and our world, is incompatible with their achievement of maximum shareholder value. Exercise your rights while you still have them. Before they end net neutrality, use the internet as a democratic forum to organize and communicate with your social networks, to strengthen a fact-based counternarrative to what’s being propagated by the corporate media. Take to the streets and public squares with us and bring some consciousness to your fellow citizens, before the militarization of the police departments turns protestors into terrorists. Work at the local and national level to propose and pass measures that will bring an end to corruption and expose the corporate masters to whom our nation’s political leaders are beholden. Join us. Our nation and our world truly cannot wait.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:20:57 +0000

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