MK Karnak on Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:35:53 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> " Take Your Power Back |
Dear Goran and Everybody Else, One of the things that the Anonymous crowd has given me is resolve. They have begun a campaign to boycott the Koch Brothers paper products. A group of people shut down the BoA in Washington yesterday or today and they picketed the meeting of the attorneys general. There are people organizing a lawsuit against Scott Walker for his actions which appear connected to The Koch Brother's campaign contributions. Under the OECD treaty which we signed for a politician, agency person or public servant to "take an action" apparently in response to a contribution, gift or other remuneration of any kind is considered a bribe. UNFORTUNATELY, AMERICANS CANNOT BRING ACTION AGAINST WALKER FOR THESE THINGS UNDER THE OECD, but a European can. They can cite the impact of corruption upon their current economic situation (lots of info on the rotten derivatives sold largely due to corruption) and Walker's behavior as one example of that problem...he then can be pursued under the OECD bribery laws. The fact is that you are not powerless. From not buying paper products to complaining to your cable company about coverage to subscribing to real news blogs, you have power to begin eroding the wall built by the evil ones. The biggest strength that you have is faith in the goodness of people themselves. That faith, which comes out of emails that express concern over the current state of affairs, weakens their hold on all of us. What they are counting on is naked self-interest. Everything that we do for EACH OTHER AND OUR FUTURE eats away at their chains. Write those letters, make those shopping lists, pray for change, donate money to the Solidarity work, soup kitchens etc. Every kind act and charitable action weakens them. MK ________________________________ From: Goran Maric <goranmaric58@hotmail.com> To: nettime-l@kein.org Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 10:39:03 AM Subject: Re: <nettime> " ... feeling powerless to To nettimers and the rest, especially here in the U.S. Yes, Michael B., I also feel powerless and do not know what and how to act. It is not easy to be intelligent when faced with real and or projected fears of "sweet coercive" measures from our "government for the people," that one can face, here, in the country of brave, the country of free. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org