Drones, Jobs and Ludd in DC

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/12/drones-jobs-and-ludd-in-dc/

Our feet easily connected the dots even when our thoughts struggled to keep up with the militarist dot, the capitalist dot, and the technocratic dot.

My comrades and I got off the DC Metro at North Farragut (David Farragut was the “Damn the torpedoes” guy who helped conquer Pacific Islands). We headed over to McPherson Square to visit with the kindly ‘Occupy Wall Street’ folks (Birdsong McPherson led the Army of Tennessee under Sherman and I think the only American general to ever die in battle in the Civil War).

We marched down 15th Street to the ‘Stop the Machine: Create a New World’ folks encamped on Pennsylvania Avenue right by the Pershing memorial (‘Black Jack’ Pershing was responsible for the atrocities in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and then led the US Army into the butchery of World War I). Later in the day we shouted in front of the White House (“Whose house? The People’s House!”), on its north side by Lafayette Square where Andrew Jackson, the Indian killer of the $20 bill, poses ridiculously on a horse.

The nation’s capital glorifies its militarists, its conquerors. We were lucky though, because that morning two dozen beautiful women had formed a drumming circle at McPherson Square and were beating out complex and gripping rhythms with all their heart, they were the Batala World drummers. Nothing could have settled us better, lifting our spirits, strengthening our determination, and lightening our way. From head to foot our bones carried their deep vibrations through the day.

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