BRAVO Chris Hedges, in DC Dec 16th:
On Thursday December 16th 2010, snow fell as 131 people were arrested in a Civil Disobedience at the White House protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges provides an extraordinary anti-war soliloquy which is inter-cut with interview of Veterans of the recent wars and with Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers.
A partial transcript of this video can be found at
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-...
And Reposted at
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/t1522...
Read an interview with Chris Hedges just after the speech on the RawStory
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/un...
And another Interview on Democracy Now where he discusses his most recent book,
"Death of the Liberal Class"
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/2...
More about "Death of the Liberal Class"
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-C...
"Hope, from now on, will look like this.
Hope will not come in trusting in the ultimate goodness of Barack Obama, who, like Herod of old, sold out his people. It will not be realized by chanting packaged campaign slogans or attempting to influence the democratic party. It will not come through our bankrupt liberal institutions-- from the press, to the withered stump that is the labor movement.
Hope will only come now when we physically defy the violence of the state. All who resist, all who are here today, keep hope alive. All who succumb to fear, despair and apathy become an enemy of hope. They become, in their passivity, agents of injustice.
It is not having a positive attitude or pretending that happy thoughts and false optimism will make the world better. Hope is not about chanting packaged campaign slogans or trusting in the better nature of the Democratic Party. Hope does not mean that our protests will suddenly awaken the dead consciences, the atrophied souls, of the plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil or the government.
If the enemies of hope are finally victorious in this nation, the poison of violence will become not only the language of power but the language of opposition. And those who resist with nonviolence are the last thin line of defense between a civil society and its disintegration.
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes. ... full transcript
[as Chris Pratt says, doing nothing is a choice; " if you choose to do nothing, in the face of continual war, wiretapping, unanswered 9/11 questions, torture, rendition, terrorism, the loss of freedom, police brutality, news suppression, the bailouts, evaporation of the public option, a toothless financial reform, no real audit of the Fed, BP's constant lies, political bribery, uncharged war criminals and corruption beyond belief, ask yourself WHY?
Media manipulation is orchestrated by an elite never held accountable. The extent that big money has taken control of the media, of who & how we elect officials, of governmental policies both at home and abroad is a reflection of a public that continually chooses to do nothing.”
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