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Technology Addiction and Servitude
Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their
high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in
groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals,
while sitting in toilets – everywhere.
While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected
in physical reality.
Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence
Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence
Joel S. Hirschhorn
There is a growing convergence of thinking about where the US Occupy movement should go as a next step to turning its values, concerns and commitments into changing what most Americans see as broken government under control of corporate interests. When it comes to political and social movements, history shows us that they usually fail not because they disappear, but rather because they become marginalized, unimportant despite a core group of committed people and groups.
Revolution Handbook for Americans
As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” It is credited for empowering many actions around the world to overthrow dictatorships, including recent actions in the Mideast. My thesis is that his ideas, strategies and tactics, a handbook for revolution, can and should be applied to the US where there is a form of corporate dictatorship operating.
