| Tent City Revolucion
by Great Orion Voyager � 2009 freyakorps In this Neocon Great Depression, thousands of sober, hardworking families are being rendered homeless, forced to retreat to tent cities across the nation. We are now seeing a demographic shift of the homeless population in America�s New Great Depression: New Hoovervilles are now welcoming sober, underemployed, hardworking families, just as they were in the 1930's. American jobs got outsourced by executives who moved our entire manufacturing base to China. Countless workers are suddenly finding themselves homeless, sleeping in cars, on sidewalks, under bridges, many in denial and shock, since they never imagined this could happen to them. Neocon Free Trade Policy, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, IMF, World Bank and unregulated job outsourcing are root causes of the homeless problem today. SHELTER FUBAR Many began their homeless odyssey in downtown shelters, but the experience was so humiliating and dangerous, many vowed to never again use those nasty shelters. Since shelters only open at night and kick out everyone at 6AM, no one gets a chance to know anyone. Since everyone in the sleeping room is a stranger, theft and fights are constant dangers. You must share communal rooms with dangerous schizoid psychotics, professional thieves, end-stage drunks and drug addicts, lost souls who eat out of dumpsters, and those who snore so loud you never get any sleep. Staff kick you out at 6AM. Exhausted, all you can do is crawl to the nearest park and collapse on the grass to finish sleeping. Many shelters don�t offer storage lockers, so you must carry all you own in big bags everywhere you go. Many don�t even let you shower: You must walk to another community center to shave and shower, then walk to Worksource to look for a job. In this situation almost no employer will hire you. Day labor temp agencies fail to offer a living wage to afford even the cheapest room. Shelters seem deliberately designed to humiliate: Why do shelters kick out everyone at 6AM? Why do shelters lack storage lockers? They must WANT you to carry bags everywhere you go, in no condition to work any job. There are no reservations, so you never know each night if you�ll get in or get turned away to sleep on the sidewalk. Even women with children get denied shelter due to lack of beds. COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY EMPOWERMENT For sober, hardworking families, tent cities managed by fellow homeless families are more appropriate than those intolerable shelters. American Indians thrived in tent cities on this land for over 12,000 years. There have been many tent cities over the centuries. Tent cities are essential for survival, just as Hoovervilles were essential in the 1930�s. SEGREGATION IS ESSENTIAL: We must segregate sober, hardworking families away from belligerent bums, stinking drunks, drug addicts, shrieking psychotics and gangbanger parolees. Too often Misguided Liberalism PREVENTS such segregation, as you are forced to share your living space with belligerent sociopaths who are in no condition to share anything with anyone. Keep bums, drunks and nuts in downtown shelters managed by shelter bureaucrats. Tent City has no room for Misguided Liberalism. Since we cannot use money or income as the basis for segregation, we must use conduct and integrity to determine who gets to live in our tent city: We are not Misguided Liberals. We are not Christian or Compassionate. We cannot relate to lost souls eating out of garbage cans, bums drunk by noon, miserable wretches begging on sidewalks, junkies prowling for a fix, or psychos shrieking at intersections. We are not them. We want nothing to do with them. We don�t want to see, hear or smell them. We are not bums. Don�t mistake us for bums. We are Frontline Soldiers in the American Class War. Misguided Liberals claim the solution to homelessness is Solidarity: We must all work together using Teamwork to form Coalitions and Cooperatives. SOLIDARITY WITH BUMS? Now that is a sure recipe for success! You gotta be kidding. Listen: Many of those bums, drunks, addicts, psychos and parolees are so dysfunctional they cannot even tie their own shoes. They don�t even bother to shave or flush their toilet. They are illiterate high school dropouts, unemployable parolee trailer trash. You want us to work with them to build a STRONG HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY? We will win this war, but we�ll win it by segregating ourselves faraway from those who would sabotage our efforts and give police �probable cause� to raid our tent city. We must form SOLIDARITY with those who raise us up and make us stronger, not with those who drag us down and make us weaker. OUR COALITION, OUR COOPERATIVE, OUR SOLIDARITY, OUR FUTURE, must be an alliance of sober hardworking families rendered homeless through no fault of their own in this Neocon Great Depression. We are homeless because Capitalism Failed. We refuse to pay rent to Evil Landlord Vampire Parasites. We refuse to pay federal tax to fund Imperial Wars. We live life with principles. We are the dawn of a New Era. !Si Se Puede! TENT CITY REVOLUCION WE ARE BUILDING TENT CITIES ACROSS AMERICA: Our tent cities offer Quality of Life SUPERIOR to Decadent Superconsumer Lifestyle: The Neocon Era was a disaster that forced Americans to toil in a neverending Social Darwinist Rat Race to the Bottom, as mindless consumers, unquestioning illiterates, decadent materialists whose only ambitions were to live in suburban McMansions, drive gas-guzzling monster SUV�s, exhaust resources, steal foreign labor and resources, treat all workers as slaves, privatize public resources, and devolve America into an Evil Christian Imperialist Theocracy. Living in huge suburban McMansions with grass carpets full of pesticides and herbicides, driving gas-guzzling monster SUV�s, exhausting resources at absurd rates, raising obese kids who hate their parents, addicting kids to Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil and dangerous psychotropic drugs, spending fortunes on divorce lawyers and yachts and world cruises and diamonds and bling, all are symptoms of Profound Neurosis. Decadent Superconsumerism failed: Unsustainable Antisocial Neocon Lifestyle feared and loathed Healthy Sustainable Community and Ecology. That petroleum-based superconsumer lifestyle is now an obsolete dinosaur. Blow it all to hell and start over. Gotterdammerung. Good Riddance. HEALTH WON. COMMUNITY WON. SOCIALISM WON. ECOLOGY WON. IT IS TIME TO LIVE IN TENT CITIES AND GROW OUR OWN FOOD: Power from solar panels. Return to nature. Own nothing. Build Healthy Sustainable Community. Steward our Continental Eden. Our once and future Continental Eden is the legacy of Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Geronimo and Tecumseh. American Indians thrived in tent cities and sustainably stewarded this Garden Continent for over 12,000 years. !Si Se Puede! Imagine Jeffersonian Democracy: Imagine a nation of landowners, farmers who grow their own food, educated empowered citizens who do not report to any boss. IMAGINE FREE, STRONG, EDUCATED, LITERATE, EMPOWERED GOOD CITIZENS, STRONG FAMILIES WORKING OUT OF SELF-INTEREST TO FORGE HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY�. Imagine. �Toohoolhoolzote was not impressed. He crossed his arms and shifted on his feet and muttered something angrily: �Who are you, that you ask us to talk, and then tell me I shan�t talk? Are you the Great Spirit? Did you make the rivers run for us to drink? Did you make the grass to grow? Did you make all these things, that you now talk to us as though we were boys?� General Howard noticed a few heads nodding in agreement. �What did he say?� the general snapped at the interpreter�. Now it was White Bird�s turn to speak. He was an old medicine man, a chief from the Salmon River gold regions, and his people had seen their share of trouble with the whites. White Bird looked at Howard sternly: �If I had been taught from early life to be governed by the white man, I would be governed by the white man. But the earth rules me!� General Howard moved forward threateningly: �Then you do not propose to comply with the orders of the government?� Toohoolhoolzote stopped for a moment: �The Indians may do what they want, but I am not going on no reservation.�� Diana Yates, CHIEF JOSEPH: THUNDER ROLLING DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS Howard Zinn, Lecture at Binghamton University, NY, Nov 8 2008 "Newspapers this morning report highest unemployment in decades. The government needs to create jobs. Private enterprise is not going to create jobs. Private enterprise, the so-called free market, fails again and again. When the Depression hit in the 1930s, Roosevelt and the New Deal created jobs for millions of people. And there were people out there on the fringe who yelled, �Socialism!� Didn�t matter. People needed it.... There is the interest of Exxon and Halliburton, and there�s the interest of the worker, the nurse�s aide, the teacher, the factory worker. Those are different interests.... No, the government is not looking out for your interest.... Governments do not represent the interests of their people. See? That�s why governments keep getting overthrown.... That's why governments lie�. If they told the truth, they would be out of office.... Look at history, you see people felt powerless until they organized, and they didn�t give up, and they built social movements. Whether it was the Antislavery Movement or the Black Movement or the Antiwar Movement or the Women�s Movement, they started small and apparently helpless; they became powerful.... We�re not powerless. We just have to be persistent.... If you join some group, it will make you feel better.... Life becomes more interesting and rewarding when you become involved with other people in some great social cause." Noam Chomsky, THE PROSPEROUS FEW AND THE RESTLESS MANY, 1994 "There are two important consequences of Globalization: First, it extends the Third World Model to Industrialized Nations. In the Third World there is a two-tiered society: a sector of extreme wealth and privilege, and a sector of huge misery and despair among useless, superfluous people.... South Central Los Angeles once had factories. They moved to Eastern Europe, Mexico, Indonesia.... As you'd expect, this whole structure of decision-making answers to transnational corporations and international banks and raises decision-making to the executive level, leaving a 'democratic deficit,' parliaments and populations with less influence. Not only that, but the public doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." Noam Chomsky, UNDERSTANDING POWER, 2002 "So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one goal, and that�s to make sure that the rich folk are happy, because unless they are happy, nobody is going to get anything. So if you�re a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happy, because if they�re happy, they�ll invest, and the economy will work, and things will function, then maybe something might trickle down to you somewhere along the line. But if they�re not happy, everything is going to grind to a halt, and you�re not even going to get anything trickling down." Noam Chomsky, UNDERSTANDING POWER, 2002, p 200 �The United States is off the spectrum: What�s called �libertarianism� here is unbridled capitalism. Now if you have unbridled capitalism, you have extreme authority. If capital is privately controlled, then people must rent themselves in order to survive. Now you can say, �well they freely rent themselves in a free contract,� but that�s a joke. If your only choice is �do what I tell you or starve,� that isn�t a choice�it�s wage slavery. Now there are consistent libertarians, and if you read the world they describe, it�s a world so full of hate that no human would want to live in it. This is a world where you don�t have any roads because you don�t see any reason why you should cooperate in building a road you�re not going to directly use. If you need a road, you get together with other people who need it and you build it, and then you charge people to ride on it! Now who would want to live in a world like that? It�s a world built on hatred. The whole thing�s not worth talking about. It couldn�t function for one second. And even if it could, all you�d want to do is get out, escape, commit suicide or something.� George Orwell, DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON, 1933 "The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people, people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.... Within limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else.... It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.... "Paddy and I had scarcely a wink of sleep, for there was a man near us who had some nervous trouble, shell-shock perhaps, which made him cry out 'Pip!' at irregular intervals. It was a loud, startling noise, something like the toot of a small motor-horn. You never knew when it was coming, and it was a sure preventer of sleep.... He must have kept ten or twenty people awake every night. He was an example of the kind of thing that prevents one from ever getting enough sleep when men are herded as they are in these lodging houses.... "Being a beggar, he said, was not his fault, and he refused either to have any compunction about it or to let it trouble him. He was the enemy of society.... In the summer he saved nothing, spending his surplus earnings on drink, as he did not care about women. If he was penniless when winter came on, then society must look after him. He was ready to extract every penny he could from charity, provided that he was not expected to say thank you for it.... "He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.... He had a curious theory about this: Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a very exceptional man.... "I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor subscribe to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor enjoy a meal at a smart restaurant. That is a beginning." Friedrich Nietzsche, TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS, 1888 "Nothing is ugly except the degenerating man. Everything ugly weakens and saddens man. It reminds him of decay, danger, impotence; it deprives him of strength. Wherever man is depressed at all, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his Will to Power, his courage, his pride, all fall with the ugly and rise with the beautiful. Every suggestion of exhaustion, heaviness, old age, weariness, disease, lack of freedom, the smell of dissolution, all evoke the same reaction: the value judgment Ugly. A hatred is aroused�but whom does man hate then? There can be no doubt: the decline of his type. Here he hates out of the deepest instinct of his species." Friedrich Nietzsche, DER ANTICHRIST, 1888 "What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the Will to Power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is being overcome.... Formula of my happiness: A yes, a no, a straight line, a goal.... Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche, THE DAWN, 1881 "I would not know what to say to workers of factory slavery, provided they do not consider it altogether shameful to be used up as they are, as gears of a machine. Phew! To believe that higher pay could abolish your misery, to be talked into thinking that such an increase could transform the Shame of Slavery into a Virtue! Phew! To have a price upon which you become a gear! Are you co-conspirators in the current folly of nations who want to produce as much as possible and be rich as possible? What vast sums of Inner Worth are thrown away. Better to emigrate, and in savage fresh regions seek to be Master of the World and master of myself! Keep changing locations so long as slavery beckons: Never avoid adventure. Be prepared for death. What began at home as dangerous discontent will once outside gain a wild beauty and be called Heroism." |