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Resist, persist, insist! Because If you’re not part of the resistance, you’re part of the collaboration.
A scientist’s slogan
Equality, Fraternity, Reality
Strong children
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken ones" —Frederick DouglassIgnorance and Power
“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -- James BaldwinMoney is power….
"Money is power. In Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions, in the press, in the pulpit, in the circles of the educated and the talented, its influence is growing greater and greater. Excessive wealth in the hands of the few means extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness as the lot of the many.” — Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States 1877-1881Let the people think….
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.” -- William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693Blogroll
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- Campaign for America's Future
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- Citizens for Legitimate Government
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Education and schools
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- Blue-Green Alliance
- Burn, an Energy Journal
- Chester County Citizens 4 Climate Protection (4CP)
- Climate Central
- Community Action Forum on Marcellus Shale Gas
- Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
- Environmental Working Group
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- Antiwar.com
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- Chester County Peace Movement
- Coalition for Peace Action
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- Foundation for Middle East Peace
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- PeaceRally.org
- Philadelphia Regional Antiwar Network
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- United For Peace & Justice
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- War Is A Crime
- World Can't Wait
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- Brandywine Peace Community
- Bucks MontCo progressive calendar
- CeaseFirePA
- Chester County Citizens 4 Climate Protection (4CP)
- Chester County Peace Movement
- DelMont DA
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- HealthCare4allPA
- Irregular States
- Keystone Progress
- Main Line Peace Action
- PA Campaign for Smart Security
- PDA Pennsylvania chapter
- Pennsylvania Budget and Plicy Center
- Sierra Club ChesCo
- The Pennsylvania Progressive
- Third and State
- Women's Law Project
- Young Philly Politics
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- Center for Research on Globalization
- Coffee Party USA
- Congressional Progressive Caucus
- DelMont DA
- Democracy for America
- Fix Congress First
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- Greener Choices
- Irregular States
- John Hanger's Facts of the Day
- Majority Party PA
- MoveOn
- OrganicConsumers Association
- Our Revolution
- Progressive Congress Action Fund
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Progressive Map
- Progressive Sites
- Progressive Sites
- ProgressivesUnited
- Public Citizen
- Reclaim Democracy
- Religion Dispatches
- Represent.us
- Rethinking Schools
- RootsAction
- Social Democrats USA
- Third and State
- US Uncut
- Young Philly Politics
Taxes & budgets
Women's rights
Dehumanization
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human" - Aldous HuxleyMoney is power
Money is power. In Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions, in the press, in the pulpit, in the circles of the educated and the talented, its influence is growing greater and greater. Excessive wealth in the hands of the few means extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness as the lot of the many.” -- Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States (1877-1881)Riots
“Riots are the language of the unheard” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.Cost of War
Currently nearing $1.6 trillion, for Iraq and Afghanistan alone; watch it grow at Cost of WarThe cause of war
"The cause of war is the preparation of war." -- W.E.B. DuBoisPresidential limits
"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
--Barack Obama, 2007
Totalitarianism
“To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.”
-- George Orwell
Reimagining capitalism
"Politicians argue over big government so they can avoid talking about big capitalism" -- William Greider in The NationThe problem with democracy
"The big problem with democracy is that it depends so much on people like us" -- Prairie Home CompanionProgressive calendar
Click here to view calendar of progressive events in and near Chester County. Agenda view (click in upper right of calendar) may be best.
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Education
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” — W. B. YeatsLet the people think …
"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed." --William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
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Schools, parents, democracy
“What the best and wisest parent wants for his child, that must we want for all the children of the community. Anything less is unlovely, and left unchecked, destroys our democracy.” -- John DeweyTruth and consequences
"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out." -- Oscar WildePower
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
-- Frederick Douglass, 1817-95
Liberty v. power
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Koch Brothers index
For a list of all posts relevant to the Koch Brothers on this site, click here.An idea whose time has come
On humor
"When oppressed peoples have no other remedy they resort to humor" --E. O. WilsonOn war
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic." - A. J. P. TaylorBill Moyers says
"The opposite of poverty is not wealth; it is justice."Ain’t they got no shame
In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain't they got no shame-- Nikki Giovanni
Need & Greed
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed" -- GandhiNormalcy?
"If this is normalcy, I'd hate to see what real trouble is" - the late Daniel Shore on Iraq, Morning Edition, NPR, 3/29/08Freedom and tyranny
"...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." --Voltaire, 1764Thoughts on War
"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." -- George Orwell
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." -- Leon Trotsky
Total Cost of War
The cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to Pennsylvanians alone is over $57,000,000,000 and to the entire US is over $1.3 trillion; now wouldn't that be helpful in Harrisburg and DC these days? Track our dollars' alarming and destructive disappearance at CostofWar.comThe American oligarchy
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have and to Have NotCategories
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