Pamela's Blog 7

Published on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“Bury the Corpse!”

by Pamela Satterwhite

Buy from the people,
Buy from the source,
Buy from each other and
Bury the corpse!

“With the corpse in a tomb, life can resume!” – is an anchoring precept of The Nascence.

All over the world folks like you and me are confronting the reality that we have to reclaim our world from the vampires, corpses (corporations), podrunks and wendigos – i.e. from ‘Power’ in all its guises and all its dupes.

A recent Democracy Now! featured an interview with an attorney, Thomas Linzey, about the community initiative “Envision Spokane”:

A coalition of community activists, union members and environmental groups in the Spokane, [Washington] area that have begun gathering signatures to get a number of wide-ranging changes to the Spokane City Charter on the November 2009 general election ballot. (April 21, 2009 Democracy Now!)

They are calling these changes a “Community Bill of Rights” that include:

…giving greater control to neighborhoods over new development, creating legally enforceable rights for the protection of the Spokane River, and guaranteeing access to affordable preventive healthcare. Supporters must gather 2,700 valid signatures from registered city voters by July 6th to get it placed on the general election ballot. Then a majority of voters have to approve the entire package in a straight up or down vote. (April 21, 2009 Democracy Now!)

In the interview, Thomas Linzey argued that:

…our activism is limited in the United States. We’re, in essence, placed into a box, which is limited by something called corporate rights. Corporations today have the same constitutional rights as you or I, but because of their wealth, of course, they can exercise those rights to a greater extent. So, even though you and I have First Amendment rights and Fourth Amendment rights and Bill of Rights protections under the US system of law, corporations have those rights too. So, Wal-Mart Corporation, for example, has First Amendment rights and Fourth Amendment rights under the law.
And what the folks in Spokane have started to say, …as a hundred-some communities on the East Coast, which have begun passing these ordinances and laws, [are saying] as well, is…“We can’t build a sustainable, environmentally, economically sustainable system, if our activism is defined for us within that box. And so, we need to break out of that box somehow…” … our environmental movement has always been based on nature as property. In other words, if you own ten acres of ground in the United States, carries with it the legal ability to destroy the ecosystems on that ten-acre piece of property. What is increasingly growing is a realization that for a real environmental movement to occur, that ecosystems must have legally enforceable rights of their own. (April 21, 2009 Democracy Now!)

The podrunks’ fantasy, of course, is maybe seven grand, omnipotent monster corporations that ‘own’ everything – great, powerful steeds with wide girths – fit for spreading asses – that only powerful men can control.

Our task is to find ways around these beasts, and to reclaim their turfs, the lands where they graze.

Of course they’re feeding on us so we’d best hurry. Their favorite tactic to destroy us – “starve the beast” – by which they mean “government,” we must turn on them, denying them access to our pocketbooks and brains.

But time is not on our side. In order to reclaim our world, heal the earth, and our souls, we have to reject the ways of Power in a more global sense, make more sweeping changes in the way we live than we’ve been accustomed to.

I think of the strategy we must turn to as: Living Light for the General Strike. The time is coming when we must choose between the illusion of ‘convenience’ and the pull of our future freedom without bosses. The time is coming when we must stake the vampire for good. We have to withdraw from that which is killing the planet by refusing to buy from large corporations. Period.

Let’s start with an easy one to bring down. Easy because it’s a completely useless product: Coca Cola. Let’s purge it from our diets, spread the word, and see what happens…

Reference Links:

Envision Spokane
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

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Published on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“Bury the Corpse!”