I received a “reading” list from the organizer of the moveon.org meeting on Wednesday in Garner, NC that consisted of eleven different articles. The first article was “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand” by Chris Hedges. Toward the end of this article is the following:
We have tolerated the intolerant—from propaganda outlets such as Fox News to Christian fascists to lunatics in the Republican Party to Wall Street and corporations—and we are paying the price. The only place left for us is on the street. We must occupy state and federal offices. We must foment general strikes. The powerful, with no check left on their greed and criminality, are gorging on money while they busily foreclose our homes, bust the last of our unions, drive up our health care costs and cement into place a permanent underclass of the broken and the poor. They are slashing our most essential and basic services—including budgets for schools, firefighters and assistance programs for children and the elderly—so we can pay for the fraud they committed when they wiped out $14 trillion of housing wealth, wages and retirement savings. All we have left is the capacity to say “no.” And if enough of us say “no,” if enough of us refuse to cooperate, the despots are in trouble.
Glen Bradley (NC 49) will be introducing legislation this session allowing North Carolina to use gold and silver as valid tender in our state. The following document is a rough draft but the legislation will be filed after the language is finalized. This is an important piece of legislation for our state and I encourage you to contact your representatives and have them cosponsor this bill.
