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mother earth

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1. More Charles Eisenstein:
Fri May 11, 2012, 03:18 PM
May 2012
http://www.realitysandwich.com/occupy_wall_street_no_demand_big_enough
"To those holding the reins of power, let us say, We will be your witnesses and your truthtellers. We will not allow you to live in a bubble. We will not go away. We will show you who you are hurting and how. We will make it awkward to do business, until your conscience cannot stand it any longer. We know, in the beginning, many of you will try to escape us; perhaps you will leave Wall Street for suburban corporate offices on private land where there is no "street" for us to hit. You might also retreat further into your ideologies of globalism and growth that deny the obvious. But nothing will stop us, because our tactics will constantly shift. In one way or another, we will speak the truth and we will speak it loudly. Where speaking the truth becomes illegal, we will break the law. We will not wait to be invited. We will enter, in some way, every physical and ideological fortress.

The truth is dwindling rain forests, spreading deserts, mass tree die-offs on every continent; looted pensions, groaning burdens of student debt, people working two or three dead end jobs; children eating dirt in Haiti, elders choosing between food and medicine... the list is endless, and we will make it no longer possible to hold it in disconnection from the money system. That is why we converge on Wall Street, and anywhere that finance holds sway. You have lulled us into complacency for long enough with illusions and false hopes. We the people are awakening and we will not go back to sleep."

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More Charles Eisenstein: mother earth May 2012 #1
Thank you mother earth felix_numinous May 2012 #2
wow wow wow Ricochet21 May 2012 #3
Well said, FN, seems we are at the beginning and in time it will be realized. mother earth May 2012 #4
OMG!!!! Howler May 2012 #5
Happy Mother's Day, Howler. Let's hope we get there, we know we need to. :) mother earth May 2012 #6
Another aspect of Occupy felix_numinous May 2012 #7
This is one of those perfect ASAH posts! kimmerspixelated May 2012 #8
Fabulous!!! GliderGuider May 2012 #9
For more education on what's playing out on the world stage, mother earth May 2012 #10
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