"What shocks me about neoliberalism is how utterly unapologetic it is about the misery it produces."

[greatlaurel]

28. Great article with excellent insights. Everyone needs to read and reread this article.

Yes, we can take back our world, but we are going to have to work very hard and be very creative at all levels. My only disagreement with Mr. Giroux is that we do need to work local, too. But he is correct in that local movements are too easily derailed. We need to show people that what they have been told on TV are a pack of lies to divide and conquer.

I do like his closing statement "Power is not just a one-shot deal. It doesn't mean you demonstrate in the street with 200,000 people and then you walk away. It's got to become more systemic. We need more than what my friend Stanley Aronowitz calls "signpost politics," the politics of banners. Mass demonstrations for climate change, for instance, are encouraging because they draw attention to a crucial threat to the planet and that's a pedagogical moment, but we have to go far beyond that. We need to create ideologically, politically, educationally, international organizations that can begin to bring their weight to bear on this global politics that now controls basically state politics and nations all across the world. This means moving from education to confrontation; it means moving from critique to action; it means moving from recognizing a crisis to the practice of freedom, one driven by sustainable organizations, self-sustaining resources, and the collective will to act."