Readings

PRAGUE

"Actual happiness always looks squalid in comparison with overcompensations for misery. And, of course stability isn't as spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of the good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

EZLN

A movement of one no and many yeses

The new distribution of the world excludes minorities....the majority who make up the world basements are presented, for power, as disposable.

"it is not necessary to conquer the world. It is sufficient to make it new.... Us. Today."

A global call to revolution that tells you not to wait for the revolution, only to start where you stand, to fight with your own weapon... video camera, words, ideas, hope are all these"

"I can't make history for you. But I can tell you that history is yours to make."

"The Zapatista paradox-one that takes away sleep. The only dream that is dreamed wake, sleepless. The history that is born and nutured from below."

Subcommandante Marcos Our Word Is Our Weapon From Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein