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One thing that we in Maine have accomplished is to push for a state Constitutional amendment that allows towns to declare food sovereignty (see the template here: local food rules.org) and now some 120 towns have passed it, by wide margins no less! Go to the link just cited for the particulars. Try it! You'll like it!
One thing that we in Maine have accomplished is to push for a state Constitutional amendment that allows towns to declare food sovereignty (see the template here: local food rules.org) and now some 120 towns have passed it, by wide margins no less! Go to the link just cited for the particulars. Try it! You'll like it!
Correction: no space site is localfoodrules.org
ThatтАЩs very fortunate!
And we should take back our farmlands from CORPORATE ownership.
That is just Wrong.
And expropriate Black Rock's control of so much residential housing they buy up and then extract rent. let that rock sink!
Indeed, and itтАЩs High Time we did something about the money problem. Accumulated wealth in the (past and) current global situation is just untenable, people are weak that way, in nearly all cases, it seems. We do have our issues, and I would imagine that thousands of years of being lorded over by filthy rich people has taught us to be hungry for monetary wealth, instead of hungry for community and doing good worksтАж Because itтАЩs clear that there is a certain kind of safety in having money. Money = Power.
I certainly agree. At the least there ought to be a not only a much higher MINIMUM wage,but also a MAXIMUM (from all sources of income) with the option for the currently wealthy either to be taxed at 100% over a certain amount or donated to legitimate organizations and charities, e.g. a GENUINE public broadcasting news system that is not subservient to the State dept and CIA, but run as a non-profit by people we vote in who we believe can be trusted (and expelled if not). Yes,we need to find away--not that hard to do--to separate money from political power.
You are One of My Kind. ^_^
You know not so long ago, the wealthy were taxed at 92% !!!! Of course, it's pretty likely they had loopholes, but still...
Wealth caps sound good to me.
I've been an anti-imperialist since 1966. Republicans are now learning what we radical activists learned in the sixties about betrayals of government. I gather that you may be of that vintage too, or close to it?
I've been anti-imperialist since as long as I can remember! Born in '60, tho. Anyway, PRE-CELL PHONE!
Sigh.
I'm down for a Whole New Thing. How many hundreds, thousands of years have we been under the thumbs of tyrants?? ENOUGH.
Lots of relevant early Dylan on this:
1. "The wheel's still in spin and there's no telliin' who that it's namin' for the first one now will later be last; for the times they are a changin'
2. "And I'll stand on your grave till I know that you're dead,
3. "Not even Jesus could forgive what you do."
4. "We'''ll shout from the bow your days are numbered, and like Pharoah's tribe they'll be drownded in the tide and like Goliath, they'll be conquered."
The dialectical process is hard at work, meaning the internal contradictions will force a resolution, and we are witnessing a brittle system--hard but fragile.
Oh, so fragile, which is a good thing, because it needs to be broken...
And replaced.
And to think, when I was a young 'un I thought how lucky I was to be an American... Now I feel ashamed that We the People have let our country go so FAR down the road of Evil... smdh
Thanks, my friend, I know a hard rain's gonna fall, and hopefully it will wash the Evil out of our leadership... We have a lot of work to do.
Yup, but the hard rain refers to radiation after you know what . . .
If you haven't heard Dylan's "The Hour that the Ship Comes in,' search for that online.
And I just remembered something elseтАФ Anyone who is buying a home should know that they wonтАЩt OWN the land underneath it. Just the house. Most likely. This is what IтАЩm seeing happening in WA, and I assume itтАЩs happening all over the US, and elsewhere, too.
LAND GRABS. ThatтАЩs what ALL these тАЬnaturalтАЭ disasters are about. So saith the dog.
I want to add to the above about farmlands...
I remember Henry Fucking Kissinger saying something akin to "Whoever controls the FOOD controls the PEOPLE." I think he borrowed that from someone else, but the point is, he was a psychopath, and he's RIGHT about the control of the food supply, and when he died, I got up off my furry bootox and danced around the room.
(suck on THAT, Henry, you nasty corpse, you.)
Excellent idea !
Yes!