Your voice matters. Activism matters. Don't give in to complacency

[Jeffersons Ghost]

If Dr. Martin Luther King had felt the way that I do some days, black people would still be severely oppressed. If Gandhi had felt the way I do some days, India would still be under the hobnailed boot of Britain. Let's ALL keep calling congress and protesting. Let's keep up the good fight for our environment and to end the these ridiculously expensive wars.

[leftstreet]

1. What are we protesting? I can't remember

[RandomThoughts]

2. Problems with democratic structure caused by many flaws in the system.

Note I am not protesting listed items, just waiting till the effects of them do not have negative impacts. Such things do not seem to have been argued in a way to defend them as being needed. So while thinking, they are things that should not be in the system, or they would be able to be openly defended by discussions on them without spin.

List of things I think on that are not the best.

Inaccurate information systems and information dispersal.
Consolidation of systems leading to corruption.
Secrecy allowing for corruption instead of need to educate populations.
PR moving into artistic sectors to promote agendas against people.
PR systems used to get people to not think or feel.
Lack of moderation, or people thinking they are special and that allowing people to break empathy.
Death policies in many sectors, due to lack of empathy, thoughts of self, or systems of scarcity.
Closed groups using multipliers like media to have say outside of value.
Groups not working in rules applied back fashion.
Smears as a tactic of control.
Deception used as if it is not bad.
Belief in ends justify means.
Belief in more more more, for reasons of power not good works.
Imbalance in civility, where some expect it but do not show it in action
Imbalance in reward to earned levels caused by using lesser methods.


a few hundred other things also, but those are some of the things I think on. I also have some ideas about some things in my life that need correcting also, so lots of things to correct still.

The most interesting thing, is many things that I have or have not seen in person, help define the reality of existence and therefore the need for some thoughts, or reason to not worry about other thoughts.

[gimama]

5. that sign says it ALL for me! nt

[struggle4progress]

3. You can be sure MLK and Gandhi both felt the way you do sometimes.

And both of them arose anyway, in the long dark night of the soul, and groped their way forward

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. yeah but I feel it more and more every day....

I wrote this OP to remind myself

[tavalon]

7. The Impossible Will Take a Little While by Paul Loeb

No, I'm not his publisher but if anyone is feeling discouraged, read that book. It is an anthology of stories of triumph in the face of seeming futility and yet.......

My copy is tattered and torn because I refer to it often.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. thanks

[gimama]

4. YES! Thank YOU!

WE know it's a matter of LIFE & death.