{"id":13010,"date":"2015-10-05T05:57:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2015-10-05T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:57:51","slug":"local-resistance-can-overthrow-our-political-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13010","title":{"rendered":"Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_main_image\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/local_resistance_can_overthrow_our_political_masters_20151004\" target=\"_blank\">Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/eartothegrounduploads\/chevronrefinery_590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"357\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_image_captiondetail\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Smoke and fumes from a 2012 fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif., sent 15,000 residents to hospitals or medical offices. Richmond City Council member Gayle McLaughlin, interviewed in the article below, is a vocal critic of Chevron\u2019s effect on the environment and the corporation\u2019s longtime political power over the city.\u00a0<small>(Eric Risberg \/\u00a0<a title=\"AP Photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Refinery-Fire\/287f0cca65c44f338f810add6ea592cd\/15\/0\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SANTA ANA, Calif.\u2014All resistance will be local. We will have to dismantle the corporate state, piece by piece, from the ground up. No leader or politician is going to do it for us. Every community that bans fracking, every university and institution that embraces the boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement, every individual who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109\">becomes vegan<\/a>\u00a0to thwart the animal agriculture industry\u2019s devastation of the planet and holocaust of animals, every effort to build self-sustaining food supplies, every protest to halt the use of lethal force by police against our citizens, especially poor people of color, every act of civil disobedience against corporate power and imperialism will slowly transform our society.<\/p>\n<p>Those who rebel, once they rise up, will build alliances with other rebels. This will give birth to a new political expression, one that will be fiercely anti-capitalist and will seek to sustain rather than destroy life. Rebellion will come from the bottom. I do not know if we can succeed. The forces arrayed against us are monstrous and terrifying. The corporate state has no qualms about employing savage and violent repression, wholesale surveillance, the criminalizing of dissent, and its propaganda machine to demonize us all. But I know this: We are the only hope. We are the people we have been waiting for. And if we do not act to save ourselves, the climate crisis and the corporate state that caused it will continue to ravage the ecosystem and human societies until catastrophic collapse occurs. Indeed, we are already frighteningly far down that road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Smoke and fumes from a 2012 fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif., sent 15,000 residents to hospitals or medical offices. Richmond City Council member Gayle McLaughlin, interviewed in the article below, is a vocal critic of Chevron\u2019s effect on the environment and the corporation\u2019s longtime political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129,9035,4092,7266,9488,3520,9585,9586,5168,9587],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chevron","tag-chris-hedges","tag-citizens","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-corporate-state","tag-imperialism","tag-local-resistance","tag-political-masters","tag-resistance","tag-truth-dig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13011,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions\/13011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}