Thoughtful Tuesday: Bruised But Not Broken

"...The dogs snarled and strained under the floodlights for a few minutes. Then we watched in horror as they were launched, with an army of pumped-up police, at our friends opposite - who were kicked, beaten and chased down the street..."

This is not the prelude to a futuristic fiction. This is the truth from just last week. I Predict A Riot Cop by Jess Worth, New Internationalist, 3Apr09 is another chilling experience from Climate Camp.

It's been almost a week since Financial & Fossil Fools Day, since thousands of peaceful protestors were imprisoned at Bank, since a fun and productive Climate Camp was ransacked, since the hyped up G20 Summit produced a predictable zero for people and planet and our police got away with murder. We are still reeling from the shock and inhumanity but we will not be broken.

Feeling in need of a reminder as to why we're here and some encouragement about where we're headed? Rumours Of Liberation by Jeremy Seabrook, New Internationalist, 2Apr09 might just do the trick. Read it out loud. Dream the dream. Imagine us there already. Ah, the future is a beautiful place.

"We are at the dawn of a new movement of liberation ... They foresee a different future, in which the shuffling crowds in the mall turn their gaze from the displays ... and look instead, at one another, marvelling how much we can freely provide, give and create for each other ... we will ask ourselves why we spent one-eighth of our life on earth gazing at other people’s passions by the unearthly glow of a TV set, or why we sat for a year in traffic..."

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