Knowing ourselves beats propaganda

Above title by Dude Swheatie of Kwug

Dude Swheatie thanks Gordon Peters — Green Party parliamentary candidate for Hornsey & Wood Green constituency  in the 2015 UK General Election — for forwarding the link to the blog post from which the following end paragraph was copied and pasted.

When we are clear that the defences we are up against are built to protect the system (a ‘system’ maintained by peoples’ frightened grabbing defensiveness), and when we refuse to be defined by our opposition to that system, then all this eruption of creativity and communication finds its way like water around the sandcastle of the supposedly powerful, and we know we’re heading in the right direction because we’re already there.

— Remembering "a man on amphetamines", by bellacaledonia
on May 8, 2015(1)

Note
(1) http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2015/05/08/remembering-a-man-on-amphetamines/

From ignorance to hope

Martin Francis of the Wembley Matters blog writes:

We must release passion and creativity to produce an alternative vision of society after the Tory victory

As I left the Civic Centre in the early hours this morning, sickened by the thought of five years of Tory government that will dismember the welfare state, continue the ideological war on the poor, disabled and migrant, and overcome by the sheer ugliness of the Tory's vision for the country, I was arrested by the pure beauty of the song of a blackbird as it opened the dawn chorus in the shadow of Wembley Stadium.

Yes, life goes on and so must the struggle....

Continue reading at http://wembleymatters.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/we-must-release-passion-and-creativity.html

Shine a light for NEETs

Johnny Void argues:

that NEETs [those Not in Employment, Education or Training] are one of the most valuable assets that a society can possess.  Young people, left to their own devices and even on meagre resources, can do incredible things – and this does not just apply to the young.

Well worth reading in full at Workfare Iis a Betrayal Of our Children And We Will All Pay the Price in Time.

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