Let your life speak - echoing the advice of St. Francis of Assisi -

one should preach the gospel at all times and "if necessary use words."

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"The most heroic word in all languages is Revolution" - Eugene Debs

No not that, can't get involved with that shit, anarchists and other mother fucker's up to no good, I see it on the news, all the trouble they cause at those WTO meetings, hell, I love my country; god bless America - America love it or leave it. I know that's what you're thinking, or think you better be thinking before they come and wake you from your "american dream", just want MY piece of pie Jack.

Revolution? I don't even want to hear about that, especially from a convicted criminal running for president from behind bars, that some insane shit, I can't get behind that, I got a wife and kids, dogs and a SUV, I live in a gated-community, I'm a homegrown flag-flier for god's sake.

What is "proud to be american these days"? I often wonder what it is these people with the bumper stickers and flags flying on the freeway like it's another Laker play-off series, think they're supporting? What is it these people think America is.

Land of the free and home of the brave. Let us recall our foundation. The American Revolution. I know they taught that in school. That's when we were sick and tired of being a colony of the United Kingdom with those corporate chartered companies exploiting us and our land. The many were ruled by the few, and we said, so it's taught, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore". And kicked their ass out of here, and we wrote a constitution guaranteeing ourselves certain inalienable rights - and we still got fucked by the few.

Yes, we found "the new boss the same as the old boss" and dreamed of the days when we could sell that concept to be used in chartered corporation's ad campaigns. But before we got there we used that constitution and people or persons stood up and demanded their rights and freedoms as guaranteed.

And they had to give the shit up, had to free the slaves, had to let the children out of the sweat shops, tear them down, set up union's give us fair pay for a fair days work, held the boss responsible for their actions; we had due process if they wanted to throw our ass in jail, got them to provide us with a decent educational system and health-care facilities to replace gypsy doctors and their cure-all medicated-goo. They even tried to outlaw alcohol and we revolted and the bar doors swung wide once again. The good old days.

"Power concedes nothing without a struggle." - Frederick Douglas

Everything we have, quickly becoming had, was won over hard fights - Revolution. They don't give us shit we have to demand it, to take it from the few who hoard from the many. I've never heard so many fools whine over a tarnished penny as the rich "elite" of this country, those few that receive more welfare aid than the other ninety percent of us put together. While more and more americans are ending up with no place to live but where the street meets the curb in contrast to the whining elite who could lose half of their income and still be filthy rich.

Those that would have us believe the largest threat to our economy, our national security, our very existence are some pregnant single women who should be put to the curb while those same elites spouting the virtues of capitalism take billions of dollars in corporate welfare from our pockets to be used in promoting their products in foreign countries, then end up moving there all together for the cheap labor of single pregnant mothers. They just love to see them barefoot, pregnant, and working their ass off.

Actually, by their standards these large multi-nationals based in this country should be kickin' these girls down plenty, truly make it advantageous to be a baby factory.

By their very own statistics - the opportunities these kids of welfare moms, considering the deteriorating educational system surrounded by the crumbling city blocks of the "hood", look forward to are very poor and most likely find the best possibilities, when they grow up, to be in the armed forces to be sent to war in order to conquer new business opportunities allowing large contracts to the very same fools that are complaining about welfare mom's in the first place - "don't believe the hype" rich does not equate intelligence or vision, on the contrary based upon our current administration of millionaires it's quite the opposite, all old money seems to breed is incestuous desires.

We have fought for and won quite a bit of ground through grassroots Revolution. And we still have the power, we can get it all back and more.

They'd have you believe that freedom is like candy to a child to be rationed out as award for proper behavior. They don't own freedom, it's place is in the hearts and souls of the people of this great Nation - an inalienable right unable to be taken away.

Janis Joplin sang "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose". Well check the patriot act, check the working conditions in our towns' garment industry, or union-busting companies like Wall-Mart - wiping out a shopping district near you - We're almost there.

But we're consumers after all. They believe we're all fools. They use shallow justifications pulling the strings of insecure vanity creating the fears and then the protection, all the while believing the masses too ignorant to see through their cheap hustle - the Problem is suggesting the solution. You'd have to be void of any potential for critical thought to buy into it, or, I suppose, just too damn tired from working the escalating hours to maintain your deteriorating spot on that consumer transporter.

"How can we force them to keep working for us, even when they're no longer enslaved into it? - Create want." "In fact, what the whole history of capitalism shows is that people have had to be driven into situations which are then claimed to be their nature. But if the history of capitalism shows anything, it shows it's not their nature, that they've had to be forced into it, and that that effort has had to be maintained right until this day." - Noam Chomsky

They believe they can create needs in our lives that will drive us to work even more hours so we can afford their products that we now, just this minute - during yet another commercial break, discovered to be in urgent need of.

But the bottom line is their control over us is illusion, unlike our control over them which stitches the cheap fabric of their very existence. Their foundation is based upon us, not the other way around as their existence is conditional, decided by us. Some buddhists would argue our existence is also conditional; but certainly not by Procter & Gamble; but perhaps Starbucks as a nation of tweeking coffee-bean junkies.

So we have tremendous power as consumers, it's proved by the billions they spend yearly in attempts to shape our opinions, needs, wants and desires in their favor. Inundated by a barrage of advertisement so immense as to be ingrained into the landscapes of our minds, no longer detected as an aberration but accepted like a tree to a forest; but even that tree now flashing neon-green to preserve the aesthetic has been taken over as ad-space promising to provide all our printing paper needs - cheap - at Office Depot.

One could argue and I wouldn't disagree, a business needs to be able to advertise, but how many companies are being represented, certainly not Joe the neighborhood butcher. Of course Joe no longer has his shop, he was forced to sell-out and now slices and dices for one of a chain of Ralph's supermarket complexes where you can also do your banking in the produce section next to the lettuce with side-effect warnings. And as today becomes yesterday you try and sneak that home loan and twelve items through the Ten-Items-or-Less check-out line, realizing your only redeeming quality is your redeemable coupons - you fade and can't help but think how the beach is so much better with Calvin Klein designer perfume.

This page is to be used as a forum and resource for activities we the people can become involved in to affect change in our city, county, state, country - And needs your input. As the corporations who own the politicians that rule the land are going global we must bring the control back local, back into our hands.

Finally I would like to leave with one suggestion we could all start with, a Pilate workout for our consumer muscle. A target boycott against just a few of the pioneers of what ails this country. A specific boycott of Wal-Mart and Nike.

Can you imagine the message that would resonate through the board rooms of corporations nation-wide if millions of people across this great Nation were to boycott Wal-Mart and Nike for just a few months?

And what if we successfully staged such a boycott on Wal-Mart and Nike, and agreed we'd give our business, just temporarily, to Target and Adidas, but before we started the boycott everyone involved who had stocks in Wal-Mart and Nike were to sell then buy Target and Adidas, who would now have control over the market - you can't get much more american than that.

"Let them eat cake"? Fuck-em let them sell in Indonesia.

Think about it - We do have the power to make this happen.