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“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
—WS
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
—Albert Camus
A MUST SEE: Fran Lebowitz on “The Majority Report” (11/17/11). Here it is, in its entirety: Fran speaks about Occupy Wall Street.
Audio podcast from our 11/17 Thursday show: http://bit.ly/tBtqDF
“We have to go back to the streets by the millions to prove to the military council that the revolution is still alive in the hearts of the millions of Egyptians who brought it about with their blood and sacrifices and who will never allow it to be aborted. Egypt is now being pulled by two forces: the old regime, which wants to take the country backwards, and the revolution, which wants to take the country into the future. The revolution will definitely triumph, God willing.”
—Alaa al Aswany, author of On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable
(Photo from Tahrir Square… Christians protecting Muslims at prayer.)
Dr. Cornel West, author of RACE MATTERS, at Occupy Wall Street…
Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Egan Just Showed Up With Jonathan Lethem At Occupy Wall Street…
Jonathan Lethem, writer of the novels “Fortress of Solitude” and “Chronic City,” among others, showed up at Occupy Wall Street today to read a prepared speech.
Accompanying him was novelist Jennifer Egan, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for “Visits From the Goon Squad.”
Invited by the protesters, Lethem spoke amid the Peoples’ Library, which provides free books and music to those who want them. Lethem has given a large number of books to the library.
Read more here.
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each others’ throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation—and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals…
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
* RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
