28 September 2004

WHY WE NEED A CAMPAIGN FOR A RIGHT TO LIVE OFF OF THE LAND

I've been looking for the right quote to frame my proposal, and here it is. From Naomi Klein's piece, Baghdad Year Zero:
Iraq was to the neocons what Afghanistan was to the Taliban: the one place on Earth where they could force everyone to live by the most literal, unyielding interpretation of their sacred texts.

Contrast this with the vision in my proposal: if you want peace, or worker rights, or ecological sustainability, you have to go out and get it. No text, no guru: you make the path by walking it.

(Only thing is, the path you make will be a regressive one unless you stop fooling yourself with rationales for co-optation...)

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