“The idea of saviors has been built into the entire culture, beyond politics. We have learned to look to stars, leaders, experts in every field, thus surrendering our own strength, demeaning our own ability, obliterating our own selves. But from time to time, Americans reject that idea and rebel . . . One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against oneanother . . . To emphasize the commonality of the 99 percent, to declare deep enmity of interest with the 1 percent, is to do exactly what the governments of the United States, and the wealthy elite allied to them—from the Founding Fathers to now—have tried their best toprevent.”—Howard Zinn, A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
“It is time to dispense with—and quickly—self defeating liberal notions. For example, the election of Barack Obama as president is no more the culmination or fulfillment of the ongoing civil/human rights struggle in this country than was the installment of Clarence Thomas as a Justice in the U.S. Supreme Court . . . Those so-called “changes” were merely cosmetic and represent no real or fundamental systemic change. Indeed, if anything, those said changes represent a psychological strengthening of the (Democratic and Republican) two-party dictatorship—which is precisely the opposite of much-needed, fundamental systemic change.”—Obama and the Corporate Two-Party Dictatorship, BlackCommentator.com, 12/9/2010
The present ‘occupations’ of the bastions and symbols of corporate greed and domination by ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people nationally and internationally are in essence the 21st century stirrings of a growing consciousness. More than being ‘occupations,’ these actions are a collective reclaiming by everyday people everywhere of what Howard Zinn refers to as their/our “strength,” “ability,” and “our own selves.”
Every conceivable tactic is being utilized by the U.S. government “and the wealthy elite allied,” to distort, neutralize and reverse the expanding consciousness of everyday people. These tactics include the constant attempts by the corporate-stream ‘news’ media to ignore, disfigure and/or otherwise misrepresent the real and legitimate message of these people’s rebellions. As ever, the corporate-stream media is all about attempting to control and manipulate the people’s narrative.
National, state, and local politicians of the Democrat and Republican parties—in concert with their corporate masters—are busily attempting to, in one way or another, decapitate these people’s rebellions against Wall Street’s hegemony.
Democratic Party politicians in this nation are trying to simultaneously co-optas well as covertly repress these people’s rebellions against avaricious corporate domination, economic austerity, and perpetual wars. Likewise, Republican Party politicians are also engaged in efforts to politically capitalize upon and simultaneously criminalize these legitimate people’s rebellions. Irrespective to their endless rhetoric, both Democrat and Republican party politicos together (whether in the White House, the Senate, or the Congress) have the common goalof neutralizing these anti-corporate people’s rebellions at all costs; and about this weeveryday people must harbor no illusions.
Wall Street’s end game remains exactly what it has always been: to blood suck the people ofthis nation and planet. However, what is different now is the increasing pain and concomitant awareness on the part of everyday people as to who our enemies really are, and who our allies and potential allies actually are. This growing awareness has the wealthy elite of this nation (and their surrogates) terrified, and they will use every means at their disposal, both covert and overt, in an effort to divide and quash ordinary people. Nevertheless, it is the everyday people who make up the overwhelming majority in this nation and throughout this planet of Mother Earth; and in the final analysis, neither corporate/government subterfuge, agents, agent-provocateurs, ‘Patriot Act’ police-state repression, or bait and switch political rhetoric can prevail against a united and determined people. The end game of the corporate/military elite of Wall Street must be pre-empted by the everyday people for the collective benefit of everyday people.
It must be remembered that the so-called ‘occupations’ and the accompanying rise in political consciousness did not just come about by osmosis. Rather, these developments are a part of the historical continuum of the struggle on the part of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world who make up humanity’s rainbow. This has been, and will continue to be, a long and protracted struggle for genuine systemic change; and whatever set-backs that are sure to be experienced must ultimately serve as springboards for future successes.
As I have repeatedly written, “It is imperative that the ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red and Yellow people of humanity’s rainbow see ourselves for what we really are: the modem of and for our ownconsciously progressive human evolution/revolution.” [Reference http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/3624] No more business as usual. It’s time to attend to the needs of everyday people and of Mother Earth!
Don’t give up. Be creative and resilient in this protracted struggle! Each one teach one! Onward, then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!
Intrepid Report Associate Editor, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, the San Francisco BayView newspaper, the Black Commentator,Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
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Wall Street’s end game: Greed, co-optation, and business as usual
Posted on October 20, 2011 by Larry Pinkney
The present ‘occupations’ of the bastions and symbols of corporate greed and domination by ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people nationally and internationally are in essence the 21st century stirrings of a growing consciousness. More than being ‘occupations,’ these actions are a collective reclaiming by everyday people everywhere of what Howard Zinn refers to as their/our “strength,” “ability,” and “our own selves.”
Every conceivable tactic is being utilized by the U.S. government “and the wealthy elite allied,” to distort, neutralize and reverse the expanding consciousness of everyday people. These tactics include the constant attempts by the corporate-stream ‘news’ media to ignore, disfigure and/or otherwise misrepresent the real and legitimate message of these people’s rebellions. As ever, the corporate-stream media is all about attempting to control and manipulate the people’s narrative.
National, state, and local politicians of the Democrat and Republican parties—in concert with their corporate masters—are busily attempting to, in one way or another, decapitate these people’s rebellions against Wall Street’s hegemony.
Democratic Party politicians in this nation are trying to simultaneously co-opt as well as covertly repress these people’s rebellions against avaricious corporate domination, economic austerity, and perpetual wars. Likewise, Republican Party politicians are also engaged in efforts to politically capitalize upon and simultaneously criminalize these legitimate people’s rebellions. Irrespective to their endless rhetoric, both Democrat and Republican party politicos together (whether in the White House, the Senate, or the Congress) have the common goal of neutralizing these anti-corporate people’s rebellions at all costs; and about this we everyday people must harbor no illusions.
Wall Street’s end game remains exactly what it has always been: to blood suck the people of this nation and planet. However, what is different now is the increasing pain and concomitant awareness on the part of everyday people as to who our enemies really are, and who our allies and potential allies actually are. This growing awareness has the wealthy elite of this nation (and their surrogates) terrified, and they will use every means at their disposal, both covert and overt, in an effort to divide and quash ordinary people. Nevertheless, it is the everyday people who make up the overwhelming majority in this nation and throughout this planet of Mother Earth; and in the final analysis, neither corporate/government subterfuge, agents, agent-provocateurs, ‘Patriot Act’ police-state repression, or bait and switch political rhetoric can prevail against a united and determined people. The end game of the corporate/military elite of Wall Street must be pre-empted by the everyday people for the collective benefit of everyday people.
It must be remembered that the so-called ‘occupations’ and the accompanying rise in political consciousness did not just come about by osmosis. Rather, these developments are a part of the historical continuum of the struggle on the part of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world who make up humanity’s rainbow. This has been, and will continue to be, a long and protracted struggle for genuine systemic change; and whatever set-backs that are sure to be experienced must ultimately serve as springboards for future successes.
As I have repeatedly written, “It is imperative that the ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red and Yellow people of humanity’s rainbow see ourselves for what we really are: the modem of and for our own consciously progressive human evolution/revolution.” [Reference http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/3624] No more business as usual. It’s time to attend to the needs of everyday people and of Mother Earth!
Don’t give up. Be creative and resilient in this protracted struggle! Each one teach one! Onward, then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!
Intrepid Report Associate Editor, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, the San Francisco BayView newspaper, the Black Commentator, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)