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Dead Wild Roses: Abstraction – Making Violence Easy – Howard Zinn
This quote is from Howard Zinn’s article called the Force of Nonviolence which appeared in The Nation in the 1960’s. Identifying one of the precursors to violent action is information useful in arming oneself in a myriad of situations – the process of rationalizing the unjust treatment of ‘those people’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – On Power – Lierre Keith
“Power is not a mistake in which the powerful can be educated, it’s not a misunderstanding, and it’s not a disagreement. Justice is not won by moral argument, or exertion, or individual transformation, and it’s not won by spiritual epiphany – It’s won by taking power away from the powerful and dismantling the institutions.” – […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – On Parasites and Capitalism
People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – If You Look at the World…
It is a new year. Some small sliver of optimism remains – If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – Assata Shakur
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Assata Shakur Filed under: History Tagged: DWR Quote of the Day, On Freedom and Oppression
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Speech Highlights Finn Mackay
Some inspirational words from the 2013 Feminism in London Conference, the speaker was Finn Mackay – see the whole speech here. Let us be clear. It is not feminism that turns women into victims. It is the men who choose to abuse women, who choose to violate women, who presume
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – Keynes on Capitalism
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Capitalism, DWR Quote of the Day
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – John Pilgers
During World War One, 10% of all casualties were civilians. During World War Two, the number of civilian deaths rose to 50%. During the Vietnam War, 70% of all casualties were civilians. In the war in Iraq, civilians account for up to 90% of all deaths.
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