We No Longer Have to Accept This

We No Longer Have to Accept This

Standing Rock Camp, North Dakota

As desperate as the world situation is today, I'm finding it more difficult to feel hopeless. I believe that the forces of the people and the planet are beginning to find their resolve. For so long we have been kept submissive, divided, distracted, afraid and confused, holding on to the superficial moments while the big wars are lost in sequence. One can begin to feel those constraints weakening. 

I can’t help but feel that there is growing courage beginning to be born. Of course all of the elements leading to what could be a first major victory won't join at once. But the binds are coming off and the grit and fighting power that were always there are starting to be felt. And they are being acted upon. 

Boulder County, Colorado Fracking Hearings

The country has seen the dogs that were sent after the people of the Standing Rock Reservation this week. We have to remember when the system comes at us with threats, with dogs, guns, prisons, or the simple implied loss of our job that we need to feed our family, what they are doing is attempting to take away our will to fight. They are trying to convince us to repress our own hearts and our basic connection with each other and the planet we live on. They are attempting to weaken the best parts of our humanity so we will submit to a situation and a system that has nothing to offer us and forces only the most destructive and hopeless future. 

Ferguson, Missouri

But our opponent also has to maintain a will to fight, to drill, to imprison, to pull the trigger. When that will is broken, whether it be in Ferguson, in North Dakota, in Boulder County, Chicago or anywhere we are opposing the machine of this impossible system, we will make an undeniable victory and send the enemy into retreat. And this will create the foothold of the next victory. The tide will begin to turn and our strength and resolve and convictions will return to us. This is why they have to achieve an unbroken chain around us. One weak link is all that it will take to begin the removal of all its weight. 

We are starting to test them now and the whole world will vacillate between fear and confrontation. It is impossible to see where it will all lead, but one thing is certain. Sitting motionless will become the most impossible thing in the times to follow.