Sunday, October 08, 2006
Breaking Free
*Latin America Declares Independence
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For contrast, consider Bolivia and Evo Morales' election last December. Voters were familiar with the issues, very real and important ones like national control over natural gas and other resources, which has overwhelming popular support. Indigenous rights, women's rights, land rights and water rights were on the political agenda, among many others. The population chose someone from its own ranks, not a representative of narrow sectors of privilege.
It is very telling that the corporatizing of the planet is met with far more outspoken and effective resistance from cultures still in closest relationship to the nature of the planet and least addicted to corporate crap. They are not only rejecting the idea of paying anything for what has always been free, but also teaching respect for nature to a bunch of bean counters who couldn't have cared less until confronted by people who still remember. In the US such rip offs just appear as rising prices on something already too expensive, it is the price they are willing to pay for the illusion of a higher standard of living.
People spoke their minds, elected their representative, and the corporate mafia labeled them as terrorists and supportive of terrorism because mafia lost it's control over the people. May we all become free terrorists!
