Multnomah County Local

PORTLAND SOCIALIST
July 2007 Issue (HTML format)

Portland Socialist remains on hiatus.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Multnomah County Socialist Party

Sunday, September 21

Open to the public. 1 P.M. Belmont Library meeting room.

For more information:
Contact Cass at (503) 289-3511. Mail to PO Box 5633, Portland OR 97228, web at http://www.thesocialistparty.org/spo/pdx.

"He who is not a socialist by the time he is 20 has no heart. He who is a socialist after the age of 20 has no head." -Someone smarter than me

"The observation that people tend to become more conservative with age proves only that it's never too late to be wrong." -Me

 We wondered what it would be like to live in a country run by corporations, and now we know. Soldier or civilian, we are huddled behind our defenders Lockheed Martin and Boeing, while Fox News/General Electric and the other news networks carefully limit our information. They tell us there is no safety unless we follow government logic to the bombing of a foreign city, full of civilians as distant from the levers of power as we are in our city.

 What are our alternatives to constant conflict and the destruction of the planet? Socialists say we are where we are because we haven't had economic democracy. Americans have always accepted that the big decisions should be made in the boardrooms and on the golf courses by the white men who have always been entrusted with this invisible power. Our schools don't question it, so our students don't either.

 It's time to pull up the nose on this ship, because we're going into a dive. The pilots are taking enormous tax refunds and defense contracts, incorporating overseas, even screwing their investors, and bailing out of being paying members of group USA. They'll still own our Congresspeople, still pay thousands of DC lobbyists, still sell us the big bouquet of poisonous Better Living Through Chemistry, but I imagine many of our captains of industry are shopping for a nice place in Sweden or some other country that doesn't have a target on its back.

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