Real Change I Can Believe In

Took a great hike and broke bread this evening with some new comrades, Carlos Euceda and Willy Barrenca. Carlos is a Honduran Mayan with the Mexico Solidarity Network who is touring the region informing folks of the perils of Plan Mexico (Merida Initiative). He has spent a great deal of time in Oaxaca and Chiapas and spoke about the popular struggles and social movements and the effects of US policy in those areas specifically. Willy is an aspiring film maker and activist, also a Mayan from Guatemala, who did the translating and helped with logistics and keeping spirits up. Visit his blog and buy his movie, support his work, help make change happen. His next project is to round up used video cameras and computers and turn his whole village into documentarians! Also along were a highschool and college student and teacher giving me hope this movement is getting a fresh infusion.

Losers Of The Week : Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Phil Graham,Rep. Michelle Bachman,Rush Limbaugh and Senator Albert Beveridge who famously said : "God has not been preparing the English Speaking and Tuetonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self admiration. No! He has made us master organizers of the world... that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples." Masterbaters perhaps, certainly not organizers.

Helmut over at Phronesisaical did a good piece a while back called the Colombia Connection. Check it out. I think it was significant that Obama mentioned the human rights abuses under Aribe that make it impossible for him to support the Trade Agreement. We need to keep the pressure on this one. The Right is as disoriented as they have ever been, totally flumoxed, and it is time for a major offensive. Talk about socialism and democracy, autonomy and liberty. Surge while they are "shocked" and awed.