Who Cares?

A little food for thought.

WHO CARES?

In a world of

movers and shakers and moonbeam rakers

pimps and dealers and real cool free wheelers

slick fork-tongued entrepreneurs

movin' with glitzy glamorous whores

all with an angle, all with a line,

all goin' t'score real big time.

Who cares about

the heavy hearted mother the anguished young brother

the kid on dope searchin' for hope

the Clydesdie father with the asbestos lung

dumped on life's ladder's lowest rung

the damaged big sister conned by a twister

all trying to live in a system with no give.

Where is

the society the community the neighbouring deed

the thought the act for the other's need

the carers the sharers the giving hand

the dream of all our children's promised land

the open world free from hate

where exploitation is an impossible fate?

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FROM THE HEART.

    Perhaps instead of theorising we should start to follow our emotions and when we discuss, we should speak from the heart, not from the book. The following short piece might sound soppy to some, but would it be bad if lots more spoke and felt like this?

From united99:

      I typed this just now in an argument with others who feel workers make what they deserve. There are typos, there are things that are not worded right, but it is from the heart...Right now I am in a state in the USA which is sooo anti-workers that it makes my heart weep! I feel that this is the sortof place where this sortof speech needs to be given. The workers who are making 7.00 working at factories which make millions are incredibly dangerous, this men need to know that they are worth more than minimum wage. Workers who are forced to be without their families on holidays and for the vast majority of the day and night deserve to know that they are worth more than money, they are priceless. Workers have lost their pride, their heart, their motive, their souls so to say. It would be easy to give a speech and wage a war in an area which already has a strong labor movement, but in a right to work state, which is really a right to fire state, these men need their muscle back. I will die for my fellow workers, I will gladly spend time in prison for my fellow worker, I will be poverty stricken if it means that I am doing it on my terms and not those of some shitty business, some call center, some factory, some fast food place, some warehouse. Tonight I decided that my years of travel and activism, that it would all mean nothing if I did not finally put MORE action to my words, and those actions and words are following in the footsteps of Eugene V Debs or Bill Haywood. Tonight I begin my steps toward real freedom.

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TEAPOT COLLECTIVE INTRODUCTION TO ANARCHY, PAGE 12.

     Well it is time for another wee page from the Teapot Collective Introduction to Anarchy, enjoy page 12. You can look back at page 11 HERE.

     ---and forests grow again.

      But this is silly utopia, and anarchists are hopeless indealistic dreamers who must be totally miserable when confronted with reality.

      Actually no. Anarchists have a vision of what life could be like, but we try to live it in the here and now, in many different ways.

  

     This society is quite blatantly showing its flaws. Many people are pissed off with the way things are run, from ecological destruction to the misery and monotony of everyday life. You have to spend most of your time working your arse off for someone you probably don't like or something you don't care about and then struggle to pay bills while being pressured to buy more consumer crap.  It is also difficult to build up friendships, when there is a general air of mistrust, deceit, and society's based upon the motto, 'you have to fuck people over to survive'.

      Many will not swallow all the lies anymore and also see the futility of voting. But a general mood of cycicism and apathy has been created.

      We want people to get past this. Let's talk about our dreams and desires.

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