Looking for Suggestions

This is a sweet comfortable life. There are no tanks driving down our streets, no bombs falling on our heads, no occupiers coming to shoot us and rape our women and children. Here in the states we are safe, comfortable, can sit and communicate to the world on our computers. I can go places and take pictures. There's an oil crisis and I can still drive my car (except my brakes are out at the moment). Global warming doesn't effect me all that much.

I am currently reading about William Wallace, the man Mel Gibson based his movie "Braveheart" on. To be honest, though Braveheart is a good film, it really doesn't do the REAL William Wallace justice. That aside, however, I see William Wallace going through quite a bit of the same shit we are going through today. The big difference between those times and these, however, is that the Scots could FEEL the oppression of king Edward I. It was constant and in there face that they are subjects to a foreign king. We don't have that here. We are comfortable, safe, and no one is marching down the streets with guns ready to kill us and rape our women and children.

Several weeks ago we had Jim Craven, Blackfoot Solicitor General to the Traditional Government and Economics Department Head at Clark College, on "Mitakuye Oyasin" to talk about the impending economic collapse. He mentioned how folks have to get over their identity politics and unite if they really want to create a useful change in this world. Example:

The Seriously Pissed Off Grannies got acquitted for crimes around a protest to stop military recruitment at the recruiting center on Broadway. Shusli started an anti-recruiting vigil there every Tuesday of which I participated in for about a year. Bob, a Korean War vet, was there almost always, and Shusli and I. There were occasional folks who would come regularly for a while. I believe the largest number we had was 10. But as U.S. military actions all over the world have been increasing and what we were doing had absolutely done nothing to slow down the death machine, we became disinterested. As a group, the Grannies never showed up. A few of their members did from time to time. And now they will be having an action in front of the recruiting center to try to "stop this obscenity." This will take place during regular work hours on a work day, and the war machine will drive on. Next week, the recruiting center will still be there and folks will still sign up to kill or be killed, to rape and murder, to participate in the stealing of others resources, to commit genocide, etc., for the KING. After tomorrow, nothing will have changed. I'm not saying they shouldn't do their actions. Folks can and will get together. But there has to be more in my opinion, but who the fuck am I?

I have tried to organize. I tried to organize a people of color organization at KBOO to help stop racism, to help bring an understanding of racism and its many forms, and to unite across racial lines to stand side by side and create a useful movement for change [plus eat a lot of good food]. But, when all the folks realized that I didn't start this organization to bash on white folks (which was the biggest fear not only amongst white folks but amongst all the people of color who showed up as well), all was considered fine and I was the ONLY person at the last two of the five monthly meetings I managed to organize, and I couldn't get anyone to work with me regularly in between the meetings either. It is easy to become disheartened.

Amongst the organizations to do happen to form, there seems to be the overwhelming issue of who gets to be the king. Who gets to rule them all..."and in the darkness bind them..." There are many peace organizations and rarely do they lock arms. Rarely do their actions effect real change. I'm not saying they should stop doing what they are doing because maybe they are raising a mass awareness and it is a lot better than sitting around and watching television, however, there is still a war happening in Iraq and they should not disillusion themselves that these actions ARE creating change. In my opinion, and it is just an opinion, change can be effected by a serious constant pounding on the fucking doors of the institution and taking actions to take care of each other, support each other, and keep moving forward with constant pressure and NEVER TAKING ANY POSSIBILITIES off of the table. NONE!

But this not going to happen. There are too many kings looking out for their own interest even down here on the street level, which is where Wallce comes in.

Wallace garnered an actual movement go rid Scotland of the oppression of England via king Edward I. This movement was started amongst the people and many nobles joined in. The movement lost some momentum with the infighting. Folks lost sense of their direction which was to get the fucking kings boot off of their throats and sqabbled amongst each other as to who gets to be the leader. Many Scots nobles didn't like Wallace because he didn't own land, he wasn't of the correct class, and most horrifically of all, he wanted all people to have the ability to own land. That would mean the nobles couldn't control the commoners and the commoners would have some sort of say in their actual destiny. This would mean that their would have to be lifestyle changes amongst the nobility, which was something not desired by the nobles. OH MY GOD! THEIR MIGHT BE SOMETHING LIKE EQUALITY AMONGST ALL HUMAN BEINGS!

And...the same thing happens here, on many levels. Alleged leaders in the various peace groups may want change in the world, but they don't want to lose any of the privileges gained by their being seen as leaders whether or not anything changes. Should peace actually happen, these folks, mostly men, could and would lose their status as peace leaders and might just be seen like the rest of us, ordinary human beings. Can't have that. So, any actual actions that might create real change are not on the table (constant beatings on the doors of folks, constant pressure, constant organizing of the people, bringing all folks up to the status of human beings, etc.). The government does not feel pressure nor fear by any of the actions taken by the peace folks or other groups.

Tomorrow, I will go to work, drive my truck, come home, sit safely at my computer, read more e-mails and the news, and nothing is going to fucking change. There will be no movements. There will be no constant pressure. The U.S. government will never fear us. The U.S. government will never serve the masses needs and desires.

How about some suggestions. Real suggestions. I don't want to be anybody's fucking king. I want the empire to end. I am not suffering. I may never suffer for real from the actions of the U.S. government, but BILLIONS worldwide are...BILLIONS... are suffering for me, so I can sit here all nice and safe at my computer and write this shit to you. Billions are suffering so the alleged peace communities can do their useless occasional actions and take many possibilities off of the table and never lock arms with other groups and put serious constant pressure on the U.S. government until they FEAR US. Billions are suffering so I can have a job and be safe. Billions are suffering for me, and many of you. It's about time we change the whole thing, and I am not one to want to sit down and do nothing, although that seems to be what I do best.

What do we do, folks? Our world is being MURDERED. I am looking for suggestions.