Let's Talk About The Weather, Man...
The Weather Underground. Go rent it. Better yet, BUY IT. So that you can watch it over and over again. Learn about revolution. Learn about fighting fire with fire. Unfortunately, learn about how difficult it is to continue fighting the good fight. Learn about how sustaining a movement is inevitably subject to in-fighting, sexism, and "becoming that which you hate."
Gripping, really, this documentary. Knowing that "The Weather Underground" movement was around when I was born and being raised, keeps it in perspective. It shows that there was at least one small (in comparison) group of folks who were fed up enough with the government's policies of repression, genocide, supremicism and "democracy for those who are lucky enough to get it", to do something about it. To rise up and have the balls to fight back. To stand up.
What's unfortunate, is the way the folks in the movement simply disappeared and/or turned themselves in - and ultimately away from the movement. What they did was, quite frankly, within the parameters of the rules that the government had established - and the same parameters that the government ultimately decided that were only for those with "power."
While there are pockets of intelligence, pockets of movements in existence today, there's simply not enough. It's too bad. If more folks would simply be even non-violent, but extremely adamant about their distrust and disbelief in what our "democracy" feels is correct, we'd be better off. "The more things change, the mroe they stay the same." Our genocidal tendencies continue to this day. Take a look at the dead from Vietnam. The village massacres of innocent lives. Including children. If that doesn't make you sick enough, how about the realization that we continue to kill at will in Iraq TODAY. We've lost many of our own military workers there already. Do we really want this to continue? To eventually become another wasted quarter century of presence in a country in which we have no real reason to be? Especially to be, and attempting to force "americanized democracy" on a society which will never stop resisting? We're spinning our wheels, and we simply don't have enough folks here stateside that can see beyond the red, white and blue and/or their feet propped up in their easy chairs watching the biggest cartoon series today - the evening news.
Please. Rise up. Be counted. Let's talk about "the Weather".
Gripping, really, this documentary. Knowing that "The Weather Underground" movement was around when I was born and being raised, keeps it in perspective. It shows that there was at least one small (in comparison) group of folks who were fed up enough with the government's policies of repression, genocide, supremicism and "democracy for those who are lucky enough to get it", to do something about it. To rise up and have the balls to fight back. To stand up.
What's unfortunate, is the way the folks in the movement simply disappeared and/or turned themselves in - and ultimately away from the movement. What they did was, quite frankly, within the parameters of the rules that the government had established - and the same parameters that the government ultimately decided that were only for those with "power."
While there are pockets of intelligence, pockets of movements in existence today, there's simply not enough. It's too bad. If more folks would simply be even non-violent, but extremely adamant about their distrust and disbelief in what our "democracy" feels is correct, we'd be better off. "The more things change, the mroe they stay the same." Our genocidal tendencies continue to this day. Take a look at the dead from Vietnam. The village massacres of innocent lives. Including children. If that doesn't make you sick enough, how about the realization that we continue to kill at will in Iraq TODAY. We've lost many of our own military workers there already. Do we really want this to continue? To eventually become another wasted quarter century of presence in a country in which we have no real reason to be? Especially to be, and attempting to force "americanized democracy" on a society which will never stop resisting? We're spinning our wheels, and we simply don't have enough folks here stateside that can see beyond the red, white and blue and/or their feet propped up in their easy chairs watching the biggest cartoon series today - the evening news.
Please. Rise up. Be counted. Let's talk about "the Weather".
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