"We are Mexican, mostly indigenous, and we took
up arms on January 1 of 1994 demanding a voice, face and name for the forgotten
of the earth. For the powerful of Mexico and the government, to be indigenous,
or to look indigenous, is reason for disdain, abhorrence, distrust and hatred.
The racism which now floods the palaces of Power in Mexico goes to the extreme
of carrying out a war of extermination, genocide, against millions of indigenous.
I am sure that you will find similarities with what the Power in the United
States does with the so-called "people of color" (African-American, Chicanos,
Puerto Ricans, Asians, NorthamericanIndians and any other peoples who do not
have the insipid color of money.)"
-Subcomandante Marcos
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When the U.S. economy sneezes, Latin Americans get pneumonia.
--anonymous
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WHEN SPIDERS UNITE, THEY CAN TIE DOWN A LION
-- Ethiopian Proverb
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The process of revolution is not that of storming the seats
of power, but of creating the environment where the popular
notions of society, power and legitimacy, shift out from
underneath those seats of power. [Independent media] is a
vehicle through which the ideological basis of present power
structures can be subverted.
-Evan Henshaw Plath, Indymedia Tech Collective http://www.zmag.org/quotes/quotesResults.cfm
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"Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control."
-Jim Dodge
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"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender;
it's holy ground. There's
no greater investment."
--Stephen Covey
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"All peoples and nations are one family,
the children of one father;
and should be to one another
as brothers and sisters!"
~ The Baha'i Faith ~
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one
suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to
suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then,
is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one
must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope
you're getting this down."
---Woody Allen
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"Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties
for a little order,
will lose both and deserve neither."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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In Cuban, dissidents are illegitimate
counterrevolutionaries and mercenaries
financed by the U.S. government.
--anonymous
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The following was in response to a comment about the protesters in
Genoa Italy for the gathering of the G8
Subject: Don't these freaking losers have jobs???
Date: 7/21/01 8:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Skatesnskis
Message-id: <[email protected]>
These are the real "freaking losers" that don't "have jobs???"
1. Corporate CEO spouses who spend all day shopping at Saks and Neiman Marcus/Needless
Markup
2. People who can apparently take off during the work week to celebrate at the
Colorado Avalanche or LA Laker victory parties
3. People who spent an entire week in Philadelphia or LA last summer as delegates
to Republican and Democratic political conventions
4. People who are at shopping malls and golf courses across the country during
work week business hours
5. Young adults who are at MTV's Spring Break festival (is mommy and daddy paying
for them to be there???)
6. People who travel to the Super Bowl from across the country to watch "their"
corporate football team in action....
7. People who attend Major League Baseball day games during the work week
8. Corporate executives who made up Bush's entourage in Genoa this week
9. Elian protesters
10. Corporate "persons" such as McDonnell's which suck welfare money off the
taxpayers for things like promoting hamburger sales in Indonesia.
Have I kicked in the yahoos' hornets' nest yet???
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Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that
it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires.... But what history really
shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever,
and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest
form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying
to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit .
-Mumia Abu-Jamal http://www.zmag.org/quotes/quotesResults.cfm
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act .
-George Orwell
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour. - A revolution
is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future
and the past. - I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political
theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis
. . . discovering Marxism . . . was like finding a map in the forest. - I began
revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and
absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan
of action. - I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins
to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life
has weakened.
-Fidel Castro
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Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary
is guided by strong feelings of love.… Above all, always be capable of feeling
any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world
-Erneso "Che" Guevara
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-Abbie Hoffman
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"This is a role our nation has taken. The role of those who make peaceful
revolution impossible by refusing to give up the priveleges and pleasures that
comes from the immense profits of overseas investments. I'm convinced that if
we are to get on the right side fo the world revolution, we as a nation must
undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from
a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers,
profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people;
the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable
of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question
the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion
is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon
look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous
indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of
the West invest in huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America only
to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries,
and say 'this is not just'. It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry
of Latin America and say 'this is not just'. Western arrogance of feeling it
has everything to teach others, and nothing to learn from them is not just.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
'This way of settling differences is not just.' This business of burning human
beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of
injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending
men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically
deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that
continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs
of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
-Martin Luther King
Source: speech, first given at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967
(a year to the day before he was murdered)
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"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world.
In fact, its the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
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"The uprising of the soul will replace the reformer with the rebel, the
negotiator with the defender of justice, the prevaricator with the honest
citizen, the diplomat with the radical."
-- Sam Smith (www.prorev.com)
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What has come to an explosive conclusion, of course, is the
United States' famous exceptionalism, that attitude that
allowed the citizens of this country to imagine themselves as
beyond the sorrows and calamities that have plagued less
fortunate people. None of the great battles of the 20th
century had touched the continental United States. It is that
complacent invulnerability that has been fractured forever.
--anonymous
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