- We Are Happy, Tonight WE ARE HAPPY, TONIGHT by James C. Henderson We have eaten and drank and talked and now we sit on the veranda in the warm evening enveloped by darkness a blousy wind fluttering the candle flames. We welcome the darkness and the trees that close in around us how they obscure us. Frogs sing in […]
- Athena Psyhogios (Henderson) Talks About the Escape Plan to Free Alekos Panagoulis This interview was granted to Demetra Giannopoulou-Gaitanou* for the Athens News Agency-Macedonia Press Agency (ANA–MPA) and was published by ANA-MPA on May 1, 2014, the anniversary of the death of Alekos Panagoulis in 1976. Translation by James C. Henderson orn on January 30, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Athena Psyhogios returned to Greece in 1932 […]
- The Pledge of Egregiance THE PLEDGE OF EGREGIANCE by Cheryl Kathleen Gerth I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Stocks of the Ameristocracy, and to the oligarchy for which it stands, one notion under money, uninhibitable, with misery and just less for all.
- Representative Democracy? REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY? by Scott Thompson onservatives and right libertarians sometimes argue that the United States is supposed to be a republic, not a democracy. According to this argument, a republic is an elected government in which the individual has sovereign rights, and a democracy is a “tyranny of the majority” in which the minority has […]
- Building a World That Works for All BUILDING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR ALL A Speech Given to the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers in November 2012 by Scott Thompson he theme of our gathering tonight is “Building a world that works for all.” This phrase is not just a nice thought or a hopeful intention; it’s the whole spirit of Occupy condensed […]
- Let’s Talk about Anarchy LET’S TALK ABOUT ANARCHY by Scott Thompson ith three grand jury resisters now in jail for refusing to testify against their friends, even people with no sympathy for the Occupy movement have started to take notice. The police state tactics are finally starting to scare people, or at least a few of them. But even […]
- I don’t want to be a puppet on a string-we are all individual, creative natures! I DON’T WANT TO BE A PUPPET ON A STRING–WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUAL, CREATIVE NATURES! by Axel Pätzold Deep in my heart, I feel we are starting up into a time of “separating and rectifying spirits”– we are starting up into a time beyond manipulation, beyond misusing our power. Are the proclaimed values of the […]
- Occupy Spirituality OCCUPY SPIRITUALITY by Scott Thompson first heard about Occupy Wall Street on October 1, the day of the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. When MSNBC picked up the story, I turned to my wife, Cicely, and said, “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life. I wish we were in New York right now.” […]
- The Value of Democracy THE VALUE OF DEMOCRACY by Davis L. Gonzalez oe Biden sent me an email asking for $5, as if he were a co-worker of mine who absent-mindedly left his wallet at home. Apparently, there’s an election going on and no less than six states–North Carolina, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, and Pennsylvania–hang in the balance. According […]