One Peace At A Time

Only one week left before this nasty presidential fight is over and here are some important things I ran across today:

• Steal Back the Vote:  the Republican machine is actively working to disenfranchise voters all over this country.  Greg Palast and Bobby Kennedy, Jr. have both been investigating voter irregularities that have already been taking place in this 2008 Presidential campaign.  As the video indicates, the Secretary of State of Colorado (a Republican) has already purged over 19% of the new registered voters on technicalities.  This isn’t a limited phenomenon….it is happening in at least 6 other states (including the other “battleground” states of Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio).  Remember that “all that Republicans have to do is lose less than the margin of fraud”…..be aware!!!!  Please look at the site, watch the video, and then read the article from Rolling Stone.

• Alan Greenspan (the “professor” and defender of American style, hyper-consumeristic capitalism) finally admitted that his “worldview was wrong”!!!!  Finally admitting that the egoistic, unregulated selfishness praised by his ideological guide, Ayn Rand, simply doesn’t work, and what our economy is now experiencing is the inevitable outcome of capitalism.  Read the entire article… and then engage in the worldwide conversation about alternative ways of living and organizing ourselves as a society.  As Murray Bookchin said, “If we are intelligent beings, shouldn’t we be able to create a society that demonstrates that intelligence?”

• I went to the Atlanta chapter meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America to hear a panel on this financial crisis and discuss the article “A Case for a Democratic Economy and Clearing the Way for Socialism”.  Basically, they were asking a question that many Americans are now asking….what is wrong with socialism??  Not everyone in this world is buying the capitalist party line any longer.

All for now….more later.  PEACE….