Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig



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Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
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The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left. - 2011/04/03

"We don’t need leaders. We don’t need directives from above. We don’t need formal organizations. We don’t need to waste our time appealing to the Democratic Party or writing letters to the editor. We don’t need more diatribes on the Internet. We need to physically get into the public square and create a mass movement. We need you and a few of your neighbors to begin it. We need you to walk down to your Bank of America branch and protest. We need you to come to Union Square. And once you do that you begin to create a force these elites always desperately try to snuff out—resistance.

Chris Hedges’ column appears every Monday at Truthdig. Hedges, a fellow at The Nation Institute and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is the author of “Death of the Liberal Class.”