Nas2EndWork "Pamela's Blogs":
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Blog 1: "You Know How I Know You're a Slave?"
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Blog 2: "Where the Hell is Vasquez When We Really Need Her?"
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Blog 3: "How Do I Con Thee? Let Me Count the Ways...Or: What Is 'Individual Freedom'?"
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Blog 4: "Is It Never Too Late to Be the Parent I Should Have Been?"
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Blog 5: "Are We Innocent When We Dream?"
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Blog 6: "To Enlarge the Realm of the Possible"
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Blog 7: "Bury the Corpse!"
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Blog 8: "Just Say NO! Make Coke the First Corpse to Go!"
Blog 9: "Compassion Always Comes Too Late"
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Blog 10: "To Live and Die a Slave?"
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Blog 11: "Crime Is The Flip Side"
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Blog 12: "Rocket Science Ain't Rocket Science"
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Blog 13: "The Fuck-It Factor"
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Blog 14: "How Do You Organize (Our World) Without Hierarchy?"
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Blog 15: "Eating What The Earth Gives Me"
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Blog 16: "When You Become A Voice Of The Voiceless"
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Blog 17: "You Got To Sucker The Corn Or the Ears Won't Be Worth Nothin'"
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Blog 18: "Packaging Our Children For The Podrunks"
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Blog 19: "The Good Livers"
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Blog 20: "Is There Such A Thing As "Voicelessness"?"
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Blog 21: "Brandon Terrell Jones"
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Blog 22: "Our Real Work"
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Blog 23: "Gennenice Chapman Johnson"
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Blog 24: "What Is Your 'Theory of Change'?"
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Blog 25: "The Plum Tree"
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Blog 26: "Wholism Is A Health Issue"
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Blog 27: "Who's Loving You Michael?"
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Blog 28: "Getting Busy"
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Blog 29: "Depopulation"
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Blog 30: "Growing A Mass Movement"
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Blog 31: "Ridley's Choice"
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Blog 32: "Children Of The Technology"
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Blog 33: "The Devastated Earthscapes From Lawrence Summers' "Logic""
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Blog 34: "How Do We Grow A Mass Movement?"
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Blog 35: "We Have To Make A Loud Noise"
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Blog 36: "The Phoenix"
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Blog 37: "Wind-Blown Seeds Need Roots"
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Blog 38: "Embracing The Plural"
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Blog 39: "Round And Round And Round We Go But Not Merrily"
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Blog 40: "Unplugging"
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Blog 41: "Thank You Sandy From Petaluma"
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Blog 42: "You Got City Hands Mr. Hooper"
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Blog 43: "Letter to Michael Reynolds"
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Blog 44: "The Last Civil Rights Movement"
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Blog 45: "The 4 R's: The Ruses Used To Rend Us...Race, Religion, Reason, and Recognition - 1"
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Blog 46: "The 4 Ruses - 2"
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Blog 47: "The 4 Ruses - 3"
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Blog 48: "The Responsibility Of The Intellectual"
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Blog 49: "The Hidden Malevolence: AKA Michael Moore's Dilemma"
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Blog 50: "Wading Into The Muck Of State"
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Blog 51: "Seeing The Communal Alternative"
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Blog 52: "Becoming The Function"
Pamela's Blog 30
Published on Monday, July 6, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org
“Growing A Mass Movement”
by Pamela Satterwhite
As difficult a truth to face as it is, we must face it: only a mass movement can unseat ‘Power.’
As difficult a truth to face as it is, we must face it: only unseating ‘Power’ will enable a future based on freedom.
As difficult a truth to face as it is, we must face it: no matter how light your step, your personal footprint, there is a debt…to those who’ve gone before, to the many hands that have made our world, and to all whose dreams lie abandoned and decayed because we who understand this mess the podrunks have made have refused to act, refused to be the reverence required to bring ‘Power’ down.
As more and more of us begin taking responsibility not just for our individual lives, but for the future, we inevitably will face the fact that the mass movement is our true work, because only a movement can get the U.S. state off the backs of the enslaved globally…because only a movement can release the power, the untapped energy, reclaim the ‘waste’ of every abandoned human, and allow the blossoming of human possibilities after millennia of suppression…because only a movement will bring us a world in which we can be whole again.
The only way individual refusal can blossom into “the beginning of the reversal” is if we consciously choose to grow it.
We can only achieve the synergistic expansion of our effect if its seeds are systematically sown as far and wide as we can sow them.
And we cannot fertilize our seeds if we have contempt for the earth in which we hope to plant them. The absence of reverence is the essence of this system and refusing to refute that absence has all too often been the Achilles heel of the Left.
Growing a movement for generalized freedom means giving to the earth and to the people around you, without hope of a return, when there's no cause for faith…with trust in human solidarity when callousness abounds…and with a unified consciousness emboldened by a unifying theory.
© Nas2EndWork (the NEW)