Real Hope Is Doing Something

[thejeopardymaze]

 I saw the author at a recent Seattle Town Hall for the lecture and book signing (for his latest book, The Death of the Liberal Class). If he visits your area for the book tour, please don't pass it up. It isn't going to be full of optimism, but I think people are kidding themselves if they think the new Golden Age is just around the corner. If the people want real change, it will have to be created from the bottom-up, not a pseudo-liberal party that keeps going further and further to the right.

By Chris Hedges on Truthdig.com.

 On Dec. 16 I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military veteran activists outside the White House to protest the futile and endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White House. It is a pretty good bet we will all spend a night in jail. Hope, from now on, will look like this.