Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods | #GRITtv

When a vile royalist, like the CEO of Nestles', says that there is no right to have access to water and that water should privatized and commercialized, just turn around and tell him that he's full of shit.

I see a vision of the near future when the people rise against the oppressors.

Gandhi leads the people not to the sea to gather salt, but to the river to gather the stuff of life.

Gog and Magog speak with the voice of thunder: That river is ours and you shall not touch it. Prepare your children for sacrifice to us.

The people turn and unsheathe their sacrificial cleavers, and turn on the gods and still their blood.

At last, freedom.

And perhaps the only one that will work because they have overwhelming power.

But I would question your calling them Gog and Magog...what they clearly are is the Beast.
And there is no better description of our economic system than calling it a Beast...a beast that must alway be fed more.
And there are biblical references that describe it in exactly that way.

He has been interviewed on KPFA's "Against the Grain" a number of times on a variety of subjects, including Thomas Paine!



http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/905/mon-33114-linebaugh-paine

But I will pay him some attention in the future.
The world is full of brilliant people like him but the media just ignores them for the most part...thank god for the internet.

... which is probably why I've heard of him!

I hope my comment didn't sound snarky. If so, it definitely wasn't intended that way.

As for catching up, although I have no affiliation with the program whatsoever, "Against the Grain" is one of my absolute favorite places to hear fascinating people and ideas that I would otherwise not be exposed to.

What you did was inform me...and that is appreciated.
No one can know it all and we should share our knology...that is how we learn.