16-03-2017, 06:37 AM
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Chris Hedges: The Enemy Is Not Donald Trump or Steve BannonIt Is Corporate Power (Video)
Posted on Mar 15, 2017 Truthdig
In a recent speech titled "After Trump and Pussy Hats" delivered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges tells the audience that "resistance must also be accompanied by an alternative vision of a socialist, anti-capitalist society."
After a fierce indictment of what he calls the kleptocracy that rules the United States, Hedges urges organizing "with lightning speed" because this is our "last chance" to do so.
"This resistance must also be accompanied by an alternative vision of a socialist, anti-capitalist society. Because the enemy in the end is not Trump or Bannonit is corporate power," Hedges says. "And if we do not stop corporate power, we will never dismantle fascism's seduction of the white working class and unemployed."
"Hope comes from the numerous protests that have been mounted in the streets, in town halls," he continues. "We must engage in these battles on a local and on a national level ... we will have to build new radical movements and most importantly, new parallel institutions that challenge the hegemony of corporate power. It will not be easy; it will take time."
Watch the entire rousing speech below.
Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
...and another shorter interview of Hedges on the same themes....
Posted on Mar 15, 2017 Truthdig
In a recent speech titled "After Trump and Pussy Hats" delivered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges tells the audience that "resistance must also be accompanied by an alternative vision of a socialist, anti-capitalist society."
After a fierce indictment of what he calls the kleptocracy that rules the United States, Hedges urges organizing "with lightning speed" because this is our "last chance" to do so.
"This resistance must also be accompanied by an alternative vision of a socialist, anti-capitalist society. Because the enemy in the end is not Trump or Bannonit is corporate power," Hedges says. "And if we do not stop corporate power, we will never dismantle fascism's seduction of the white working class and unemployed."
"Hope comes from the numerous protests that have been mounted in the streets, in town halls," he continues. "We must engage in these battles on a local and on a national level ... we will have to build new radical movements and most importantly, new parallel institutions that challenge the hegemony of corporate power. It will not be easy; it will take time."
Watch the entire rousing speech below.
Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
...and another shorter interview of Hedges on the same themes....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass