"You do what you can in civil disobedience, and what you do if you are successful is to make sure the outside world knows the dark doings of something the public is paying for with its tax dollars. It is a great American tradition, and it remains vibrant and alive in Will Parrish and the other whistleblowers up here trying to bring attention to this travesty. And in the world of ‘civil disobedience on a dime,’ you do what you can, non-violently. Always non-violently. Being arrested is not violence. Instead, it is a form of whistleblowing that brings institutional misdeeds to the attention of the mass media, who often require arrests as a primary threshold for their interest....In a larger context, the “inter-regional” nature of the bypass project presages a grossly bulldozed straightening and widening of Hwy 101 from Hopland to Eureka, a magnificent eco-drive that makes the famous 17-Mile Drive of Big Sur seem like an oceanside pit stop. Instead, 101 will become the long-awaited route for toxic and nuclear wastes with direct access to port cities."
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:27:04 +0000
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