To resist corporate power and form “a more perfect Union,” we should study nonviolent lessons and strategies of pro-democracy movements worldwide. Meet Dr. Gene Sharp.
My last Evening Focus I spoke of Gandhian philosophy and technique . Afterward, I “got it” – the same colonial powers who had ruled India and ruled us before the American Revolution are at it again, with new tricks … dressed in suits and ties, and yes, even powdered wigs. It takes my breath away to think of it.
Republican strategists, well-paid agents of corporate colonialism, have working for 30 years to gain control of all the mechanisms of governance – from the school board to state and local boards and commissions, to the means of communication, to the mechanisms of elections, to the judiciary. And for 80 years they have ached to go back to the good old days, days before FDR.
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