Thanksgiving at Standing Rock!
I'm currently reading a book entitled Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, written by Iraq veteran Roy
Scranton, who basically tells us that human beings have pretty much
screwed themselves due to the vast and rapidly-approaching nightmare of
climate change. If this book was designed to scare the holy shite out
of people, it certainly has succeeded. http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100064510
According to Scranton, "Human civilization has thrived in what has been
the most stable climate interval in 650,00 years. Thanks to
carbon-fueled industrial civilization, that interval is over." Boom. http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/10/were-homeless-and-we-vote-homeless.html
But is anybody doing anything to stop this nightmare from happening?
Only a few people are -- mainly a small-but-courageous Indian tribe at
Standing Rock, North Dakota. And what is America's reaction to this
heroic stand against death by carbon? We have just spent hundreds of
thousands of tax-payer dollars trying to tear-gas them, harass them,
arrest them, pepper-spray them and shoot rubber bullets at them. Way to
go America! Or not. https://www.beforetheflood.com/
Thank goodness for the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux. Like it or not,
they are protecting us. They are standing in place instead of us. They
are bravely standing in front of a hurricane of climate-death and are
doing it in our name. And all we do to thank them is to pay for the
militarized police's tear gas, dogs and bullets that attack them.
I propose another way to thank the Standing Rock Sioux. Let's all go
to Standing Rock this Thanksgiving -- and show them that we really do
have something to be truly thankful for.
PS:
If you can't figure out how to get all the way to the Standing Rock
Reservation, then consider having your Thanksgiving dinner in front of
the Capitol building in Bismarck instead. Can't make it there either?
How about Thanksgiving dinner in front of the US Congress or the White
House.
PPS:
Standing Rock protestors, Black Lives Matter, various Chicano movements
and Occupy are practically the only true Americans these days --
Americans who are courageous enough to actually stand up to the US
military-industrial complex that is gobbling up the rest of us alive.
We should honor these protestors instead of bombing them with tear gas
and attacking them with dogs. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/after-two-wars-standing-rock-first-time-i-served-american-people
The rest of us whine and grieve that we are losing everything -- but do nothing to stop it and just go along.
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