According the the pop clock there are 7 billion 905 million 574 thousand 331, 32, 33 of us. Yes, there are a whole hell of a lot of us human beings. Now out of that seven billion, according to luxist.com there are 24 million millionaires. Now if you think of them as the rich and the richer and then add up, their henchmen and thugs that keep them in power, you could probably quadruple that number and will would only have 100 million. And if not all of them are evildoers, jut because they are rich, let's say that a 1/2 of them are decent folks. That only leaves. 50 million really bad guys. that's not very much. The odds are certainly against them. when you think big.
What we are witnessing today, is a global popular revolt against teeny tiny repressive regimes, (with big guns) and even democratically elected administrations that have stolen our money, livelihoods and our dignity.They are completely out of touch with reality and the power of civil society, now known as the social network. It is strong and growing exponentially and even if a nasty despot, or governor wants to shut down the internet, he will also be cutting off his military's and financial systems from being able to function. We are all connected. We are one. Now, Instead of having to rely on phone trees and leaflets, with the click of a button we can reach thousands, millions, and potentially billions in a moment and they will appear as if out of the woodwork to dispose of unwanted dictators and Corporate rapscallions.
This Weekend in Britain social activists invaded forty banks across the country and turned them into day care centers, classrooms,walk in clinics and launderettes to protest austerity measures that are being inflicted on truly hardworking people. (The ones not responsible for the global financial meltdown). International governments in cahoots with The Wall street tycoons have mismanaged our precious resources and treasuries and now are putting the burden on us, instead of the 24 million millionaires and billionaires and the corporations they use as a magic invisible shield under which they pay absolutely no taxes. We're talking Citicorp, Wells Fargo, Exxon,GE and Boeing who paid no taxes last year. That is not only unfair, it doesn't make any sense. The people, who are hungry and very tired of it, say enough is enough.
The success of non-violent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have inspired those in Wisconsin, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Morroco, Iran, and have fueled the fires of Libyans who are dying as we speak to lift the yolk of totalitarianism from their necks. As of this morning the protests have jumped the Atlantic into Central America, Nicaragua has begun online protests, started by a young blogger, because the people as of yet are so afraid of repercussions from the Ortega regime, (financially backed by the murderous Qaddafi) and are gathering strength in numbers before they hit the streets. It's almost impossible to resist the invitation to rise up.
So many are speculating, especially on the mainstream new stations as to what the future holds. How can anybody really predict what will replace the corporate criminals and defunct dynasties. Will it be worse, fascists? extremists? terrorists? But the Egyptian faces that I saw on the cover of Time magazine don't look like they are ready to destroy anything, quite the contrary, they want life and freedom and peace in this world. A lot of these young adults have lived their whole lives in poverty and war zones. It is not conducive to their artistic, creative desires to have a future. They see the futility and it is my assumption that they believe in human rights, not based on nationality, but rather on, existence. and the right to have food, housing, education,sustainable industries, and decent services, including water, electricity, and sewage.
It is particularly the youthful demographic that has up till now defied labels, to become the revolutionary generation mastering the art of text messaging, twittering and facebooking to organize, expose, and blog the night away,
This is what we've been praying for; Self-made, representative democracy, with the help of digital media, made in alliance with the weary militias and worn out police who realize, they are working class too and their budgets are all but busted. They see that the odds are against them and they become bound to the resistance. Whether it's the police in Wisconsin refusing to kick the protesters out of the state capitol building or the army in Tripoli defecting or the Egyptian tanks that did not fire on it's own people.There's something happening here. The people are on the move. Where there is injustice, poverty, and political greed the natives are restless and willing to lay down their lives for the future. They have so much in their favor and what becomes clearer with every tick tock of the population clock, there's more of us than them.
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