: Good one, SDF,: A truly fun site to visit...too much to see in one sitting. This is going into my favorite places folder!
: Mike
I have to wonder if the site I suggested isn't a little too monochromatic in its suggestion of union organizing as the main solution to the problems of globalization. I myself was more interested in the site's discussion of global elites as a great list of the big figures in the New World Order, as an elaboration on who exactly is behind this ruling power structure that is so deserving of a divorce.
The people behind this group suggest a different, yet not exclusive, way of fighting globalization -- sustainable agriculture.
One of the most powerful ways the New World Order exercises power over us all is in arranging a divorce between our livelihoods and the way our food is grown. If we are rendered powerless to grow our own food, we can be starved out, and when one-sixth of the world's population suffers from chronic malnutrition, this isn't so distant a possibility, is it?
So, given this disconnection between us and our food sources, the "Them" the Geocities site describes have a variety of tools to use against us (the money we make, weapons in their arsenal, media to discredit us etc.,) that wouldn't be so effective were we engaged in a collective effort to produce our own food.
The disconnection between us and our food stands out nowhere so blatantly as in places such as southern California, one of the wealthiest places in the world, one of the world's biggest water consumers, and one of the easiest places in the world to grow edible plants, and yet the land here is almost always wasted on ornamental plants, lawns, and other things that won't feed a body.
The first step: plant an urban garden. Liberate the land from cement and lawn grass for the sake of liberating you and your friends from the tyranny of big agribusiness. In California (and southward), it's the perfect time to plant mustard greens, and they grow like weeds once you have them sprouted, which should take only 4-7 days. It's also the time to put in peas, legumes which fix nitrogen in the soil. The composting season has begun in the Northern Hemisphere -- but it takes those leaves six months at least to produce a mulch you can use. At the least you can grow your veggies indoors, under growlights.
