Life: This is a people's flag not a corporate flag.(week

Life: This is a people's flag not a corporate flag.(week 17,116/365,jreyes)
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"As we pass from one century to another, one millennium to another, we would like to think that history itself is transformed as dramatically as the calendar. However, it rushes on, as it always did, with two forces racing towards the future, one splendidly uniformed, the other ragged, but inspired.

There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture of money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist we look at, and nothing more.

But there is also (though much of this is kept from us, to keep us intimidated and without hope) the bubbling of change under the surface of obedience....

Yes, we have in this country, dominated by corporate wealth and military power and two antiquated political parties, what a fearful conservative characterized as "a permanent adversarial culture" challenging the present, and demanding a new future.

It is a race in which we can all choose to participate, or just watch. But we should know that our choice will help determine the outcome. "

--Howard Zinn ( A people's history of the United States 1492 - present)