Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience.  This is the action that is flowing outward much like penicillin in a petri dish, destroying the diseased  culture of exploitation surrounding it.  This is the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon.  What is occurring is the basic taking and remaking of the commons, places where an alternative system of democracy is being germinated.  The world economic system, nominally headed by the United States but, in reality, owned and managed by financial and corporate ruling elites, will not respond to anything less than direct, persistent and full spectrum civil disruption and disobedience.  I am describing the beginning of the end of capitalism represented as it is by its perverted ideology: the accumulation of personal wealth.  Like a sponge soaking up the last sources of public wealth, the neoliberal economics of privatization is sucking up public education, social security, Medicare, publicly owned land trusts, and the very air we breath.  People are finally waking up to the reality of the destruction that capitalism has brought to our little blue marble of a planet.