Monday, November 21, 2011

WE ARE THE 99%!

First thing I have to say about the Occupy Mouvement: Why did it take people so long to wake up? As long as I know, injustice on earth always have been present. There will always be, no matter how many fights and wars it will cause. How could we explain that the only 1% of  corporate forces (governments) runs our world. How can we explain that 1% is getting over 99%? I don't get the point. Anyways, that may means only few people of the 99% feel concerned about the urge to react and to use their own power. Even me, as young adult, no so informed about the world wide issues, don't feel included in that ''story''. So what? I still be included in the 99%. Older people (as my parents, for example) are not even aware of the movement. So... How can it be possible to make a real change on the world situation? Maybe some people don't even care about being led by corruption and injustice, because it always have been this way. We don't have any idea of a world living in peace and love. We always have been figthing for it, but we don't even know what it would be like.


Like I said before, in order to make a success of the Occupy mouvement, and to inform you about it, here are some facts that need to be known about the governments that run the Earth:


''They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.


They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.


They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.


They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.


They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.


They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.


They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.


They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.


They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.


They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.


They have sold our privacy as a commodity.


They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.


They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.


They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.


They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.


They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.


They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.


They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.


They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.


They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.


They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *


*These grievances are not all-inclusive.''






-As you can read, some of these facts are totally unknown or unrealized by the population. It is our right to be informed and it is our responsability to react about it. So let's be united, let's fight again and again... without any physical violence, of course. But will that make any changes? Out of so many tries to fight injustice, will that one try will be the effective one? Let's hope the impossible: a 99% against 1% victory.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Life is wonderful!

I didn't know what to talk about. I have so much to share with you, but in order to not be so boring and follow the way my blog began with, I'd like to introduce you to JASON MRAZ.

I've always known that everything happens for something. I believe that life has its good and its bad, but what would be the good if the bad wouldn't even exist? Would we appreciate being in the light if we ever had no idea of the darkness? Well, everything has its oposite and this is ain't meant for no reason. So, even if you end up more often in the darkness, you'll always know there is something that will bring you back to light, and that light, actually, DOES exist. Life is wonderful, this is what tells us this song of Jason Mraz, artist that I particularly like. Enjoy lyrics and video, hope it will make sense to you, as it does to me! :)

LYRICS:
It takes a crane to build a crane
It takes two floors to make a story
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
It takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction

Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is wonderful
Ah la la la la

It takes a night to make it done
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
It takes some fears to make you trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to have it polished

Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is so full of
Life is so rough
Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is our love
Ah la la la la la

It takes some silence to make sound
It takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain