a poem for the mythical little guy
I 'woke up late' to what is really goin' on underneath all the flag wavin' and anthem singin' and shushin' my mouth. I'm an average person of average age and average size and average intellect, so if I'm wakin' up, how many other average people are wakin' up too? America is a Sleeping Giant. WAKE UP! Quit hittin' the snooze bar, G'dammit! GET UP!
"...it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."-- George Carlin
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."-- Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm bangin' pots n' pans, Molly!
"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush’s proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, “Stop it, now!”
-- Molly Ivins
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."--Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Links
- General Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket"
- Elie Wiesel's Speech "The Perils of Indifference"
- Third World Traveller - expand your mind, wake up!
- TUC radio
- Dave Emory, anti-fascist researcher
- Bonnie Faulkner's Guns and Butter archive
- Pacifica radio
- Online Journal
- Consortium News
- Anti-war.com
- Scott Horton's Stress blog
- Joe Bageant's blog
- James Kunstler's blog
- Michael Moore
- truthout
- Alternet
- Common Dreams
- Think progress
- Markos' blog
- Atrios' blog
- Z facts - on controversial subjects
- Economists' View blog
- Economic Policy Institute
- Natural Resources Defense Council - if you're serious about the environment
- Mother Jones Magazine
- Michigan Citizens For Peace: speaking for our conscience
- Grist Magazine
- Bioneers - doing something new about the world
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- Orion Magazine
- Poets Against the War
- defunct "Robert Newman's History of Oil" Video
- "Loose Change" Video
- "Everybody's gotta Learn" Video
- What does Bush's war cost (it's your taxes)?
- What does Bush's war cost (victims)?
- Get Your War On - read it and weep -history in comic form
- Tom Tomorrow's blog - read the comics & buy his books!
- Jon Swift - Equal time for the rightwingnut boob conservative point of view
- Billmon's defunct blog memorial site
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