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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:50:44 |
Reclaiming America
In praise of disobedience
By Luciana Bohne
On the MoveOn.org website, I accessed an interactive
map showing participation by American citizens in the national vigil called for
by Cindy Sheehan on 17 August 2005. The most touching thing about this exercise
was clicking on counties and viewing this count: one person in a county in
Maine, two in a county in Texas, one person in a county in Colorado. It must take
guts to do that -- to show up with a candle, alone. These are the people whom
you can trust to stand up in a room full of polite, scared, or obedient people
to say, “No, I will not go along. It is wrong.”
Aug 23, 2005, 16:44
Reclaiming America
American revolution, now: Eliminate the one party system with two faces
By John Stanton
To all but the most
critically astute American minds, a precious few it must be said, the USA is
the most dynamic country to appear in recorded history.
Jul 23, 2005, 23:32
Reclaiming America
Learning to become free
By Luciana Bohne
The nineteenth-century English historian, Lord
Macaulay, wrote, "Is it not under oppression that we learn to use
freedom?"
Mar 22, 2005, 23:14
Reclaiming America
Who will stand?
By T. Kepner
It is said that if you do not stand for something,
then you will fall for anything. It must be true, because it appears as if most
of us are lying flat on our backs, either unable or unwilling to stand. Is it
because we are too comfortable, lying prone? Have we no energy left to lift
ourselves onto our feet? Or is it that we are afraid that if we stand, we will
be knocked down? Whatever the reason, it’s time to get up. Time to get on your
feet. It’s time to stand. Question is, who will stand?
Jan 7, 2005, 01:26
Reclaiming America
21st Century American Revolution, Part 3 of a 3-part series
By Michael Hasty
Unity of purpose is
the first rule of revolution. Revolution is a paradigm shift. A paradigm shift
occurs when there is a critical mass of consciousness -- which comes from unity of
purpose.
Dec 17, 2004, 16:33
Reclaiming America
21st Century American Revolution, Part 2 of a 3-part series
By Michael Hasty
An underappreciated aspect of America’s founding
generation is that they experimented with other forms of government—colonial
legislatures, the Continental Congress, and the Articles of
Confederation—before they settled on the constitutional system that still
governs us today. A 21st century American Revolution will require that we also
experiment with governance. And if progressives want the public to trust that
we can govern this nation, we first have to demonstrate that we can govern
ourselves.
Dec 4, 2004, 16:57
Reclaiming America
21st Century American Revolution, Part 1 of a 3-part series
By Michael Hasty
If there were any doubts remaining that the United
States of America is no longer a functioning democracy, those doubts
disappeared in the presidential election of 2004. The uncomfortably open-ended
question we are left with is: where do we go from here?
Nov 25, 2004, 14:45
Reclaiming America
Reaffirming democracy
By Luciana Bohne
I am sure that we here in northwest Pennsylvania are
like many other concerned people in the United States wondering about
"what must be done" to reverse the woeful course which our country
has been "elected" to continue pursuing.
Nov 17, 2004, 17:04
Reclaiming America
Paranoid shift
By Michael Hasty
Just before his
death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the
Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people
he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they
were never really interested in American ideals of “freedom” and “democracy.“
They really only wanted “absolute power.”
Jan 10, 2004, 20:33
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