Death by Fracking
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/death_by_fracking_20151018/
Posted on Oct 18, 2015
By Chris Hedges
Tanker trucks used in fracking operations line up near gas burn-off
flares at a storage facility in Williston, N.D. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)
DENVERThe maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes
a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One
day, courtesy of corporations such as Halliburton, BP and ExxonMobil, a
gallon of water will cost more than a gallon of gasoline. Fracking, which
involves putting chemicals into potable water and then injecting millions of
gallons of the solution into the earth at high pressure to extract oil and
gas, has become one of the primary engines, along with the animal
agriculture industry, for accelerating global warming and climate change.
The Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers who are profiting from this
cycle of destruction willonce clean water is scarce and crop yields
decline, once temperatures soar and cities disappear under the sea, once
droughts and famines ripple across the globe, once mass migrations
beginsurely profit from the next round of destruction. Collective suicide
is a good business, at least until it is complete. It is a pity most of us
will not be around to see the power elite go down.
I met recently in Denver with three of the countrys leading anti-fracking
activists: Gustavo Aguirre Jr. of KEEN (Kern Environmental Enforcement
Network) in California; Kandi Mossett with the Indigenous Environmental
Network and from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota, the
second-largest oil-producing state because of hydraulic fracturing; and
Shane Davis, a longtime campaigner against fracking and the founder of
fractivist.org, a data mining organization that exposes what fracking
corporations are doing in communities around the country.
The activists are waging a war against a corporate state that is deaf and
blind to the rights of its citizens and the imperative to protect the
ecosystem. The corporate state, largely to pacify citizens being
frog-marched to their own execution, passes environmental laws and
regulations that, at best, slow the ongoing environmental destruction.
Corporations, which routinely ignore even these tepid restrictions, largely
write the laws and legislation designed to regulate their activity. They
rewrite them or overturn them as the focus of their exploitation changes.
They turn public hearings on local environmental issues into choreographed
charades or shut them down if activists succeed in muscling their way into
the room to demand a voice. They dominate the national message through a
pliable and bankrupt corporate media and slick public relations. Elected
officials are little more than corporate employees, dependent on industry
money to stay in office and, when they retire from public service,
salivating for jobs in the industry. Environmental reform has become a joke
on the public. And the Big Green environmental groups are complicit because
they rely on donors, at times from the fossil fuel and animal agriculture
industries; they are silent about the reality of corporate power, largely
ineffectual, and part of the fiction of the democratic process.
Resistance will be local. It will be militant. It will defy the rules
imposed by the corporate state. It will turn its back on state and NGO
environmental organizations. And it will not stop until corporate power is
destroyed or we are destroyed.
Forty years after the major environmental laws were adopted in the U.S.,
and 40 years after trying to regulate the damage caused by corporations to
the natural environment and our communities, by almost every major
environmental statistic things are worse now than they were before, Thomas
Linzey, the executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense
Fund, told me recently.
The fracking industry is omnivorous, biologist Davis noted. It is so
intoxicated and bloated by greed that it has moved into our backyards, near
our school playgrounds, our hospitals, universities, our day cares, our
state parks, our national grasslands, and has its sights on the rest of our
public lands across America unless we stop them, he said.
In writing Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, the cartoonist Joe Sacco
and I visited devastated sacrifice zones where corporate power manipulates
judicial and political power, and has free rein to impoverish families,
destroy or abandon infrastructure, plunder and pollute the environment and
shape the message disseminated by mass communications. Those who organize
and resist are met with intimidation and violence from the state and private
security firms in the pay of corporations.
Sacco and I wrote the book from the poorest pockets of the United States,
including Camden, N.J., the nations poorest city, per capita, among those
with more than 65,000 residents; the Lakota reservation at Pine Ridge, S.D.,
where the average life expectancy for a male is only 48 and where at any one
time 60 percent of residents have neither running water or electricity;
devastated coal fields of southern West Virginia where the tops of
Appalachian mountains have been blown off to extract coal seams and the
landscape has become a wasteland; and produce fields in Florida where
undocumented workers are not only sickened by pesticides but at times are
held in bondage and slavery.
The point of the book, whose last chapter takes place in Zuccotti Park in
Manhattan during the Occupy movement, is this: These sacrifice zones went
first and we are next. We have all become part of a sacrifice zone. It
behooves us to understand what unfettered, unregulated corporate power looks
like, how it operates and what levels of wholesale destruction it inflicts
in the lust for profit on human beings and the environment. If we do not
know how corporate power works, and the lengths it will travel to exploit us
and the ecosystem, we will not be able to fight it. Both in theological
terms and literally, these corporate forces are forces of death.
There is a low-level insurgency, in many of the sacrifice zones and
elsewhere, against the corporations that carry out destruction and plunder,
including fracking. This is an insurgency worth joining. It is a battle far
more important than the charade of presidential elections. Real change will
come only from below. It will come from those participating in efforts such
as the Black Lives Matter movement, the anti-fracking movement and the
movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It will come from radical
organizations that organize outside the system and physically impede
corporate destruction. It will come through open revolt. Our fate as a
species will be determined on these lonely and difficult battlegrounds.
The fracking industry, bolstered by the security and surveillance state, has
devoted tremendous resources to monitoring, demonizing and criminalizing
anti-fracking activists. Activists are followed, harassed, arrested and
defamed in corporate-funded propaganda campaigns even as their communities
see their drinking water poisoned, air polluted, greater earthquake
activity, the dumping of radioactive waste on their land, and farm animals
sickened, born with birth defects and killed by drinking contaminated water.
The oil and gas industry, often backed by state governments, routinely sues
communities that have asserted their democratic rights to ban fracking. The
corporations know that communities in most cases do not have the resources
to challenge high-priced corporate legal teams and lobbyists. This means
that for citizens seeking redress, the courts are largely useless.
High-court decisions in Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico, along with a ruling
by the state Senate in Texas and a law passed in Oklahoma, deny the right of
communities to impose fracking bans. So, in effect, when you raise
consciousness about the dangers of fracking, when you organize to protect
yourselves and your children, when you pass a ban in a democratic vote, your
action is nullified by the courts or the state. The consent of the governed
becomes a farce.
We are being sued by our own governor, Davis said of John Hickenlooper,
whose Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has joined a lawsuit
against the city of Longmont to challenge a vote by Longmont residents to
ban fracking. Communities cannot protect themselves. There are homes in
Colorado where basements have filled up with explosive levels of gases from
previous fracking industry operations, sending people to burn centers. There
are homes where people can light their tap on fire because of high levels of
thermogenic methane in the water. But the victims of fracking are prohibited
by law from safeguarding themselves.
There are more than 15 million Americans, many of them children, who live
within a mile of a fracking site. Most are being exposed daily to a deadly
brew of toxins. Because the oil and gas industry is not required under law
to disclose the chemicals used in fracking, communities are not told what is
being injected into their groundwater. The array of carcinogens is known to
the public only through analysis of samples taken at sites. These samples
include endocrine disruptors and chemicals such as benzene, toluene,
ethylbenzene and xylene. Infrared cameras set up by activists show plumes of
methane and other hydrocarbon gases, invisible to the naked eye, spiraling
upward from underground fracking sites. Methane is a greenhouse gas whose
potential for trapping heat and therefore for global warming has been
estimated at 86 times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
Those who live around fracking sites often suffer skin rashes, nosebleeds,
headaches, respiratory problems, premature births and cancers. Yet the
corporations, along with our governments, doggedly refuse to link the
diseases to fracking. This is a pattern familiar to all who live in
sacrifice zones. Corporations have no intention of being held accountable
for what they do. That would cost money.
A lot of people around me have cancer, said Mossett. Im a cancer
survivor. It has become something that is normal for us. It comes in all
formsbone cancer, lung cancer, uterine cancer and prostate cancer, amongst
others. Even before the fracking began we had seven coal-fired power plants
in North Dakota. Every inch of our over 11,000 miles of rivers, lakes and
streams are already contaminated with mercury. Then fracking started to take
off around 2006. People, at first, had no clue what was coming.
Infrastructure started to be built. We got water towers through the rural
water department. Many saw this as positive. A brand new bridge was built
over Lake Sakakawea.
But once the infrastructure was in place it became apparent that it had been
built to facilitate the extraction of oil by fracking, not improve the lives
of those on North Dakotas reservations.
White people are not the only problem. The fracking corporations, Mossett
said, easily bought off local tribal leaders. Our tribal council [of the
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation] sold us out. The council gave away
sovereignty rights to allow the oil industry to operate on tribal lands. The
council signed contracts to give away parcels of land. It set up front
companies, since you have to be native if you frack on native land. [The
events that Mossett criticized occurred before the election of a new
chairman last year.]
Cancer rages like a plague across the reservations.
The Centers for Disease Control do not show clusters of cancers in our
communities, Mossett said. This is because illness and sickness are coded
out of the place where referrals are made. Since we dont have a hospital to
treat these illnesses, patients are referred to a clinic like the Mayo
Clinic in Minneapolis. So the huge clusters of cancers on the reservation
are not properly documented.
The fracking industry in much of North Dakota, rather than extract the
subterranean gas, burns it off in jets of flame known as flares. It trucks
out the more valuable oil.
The flares burn all day and all night, Mossett said. There are hundreds
of them. They are loud. There is enough gas produced from these flares, some
have estimated, to heat half a million homes every day. And all this is
going into the atmosphere. Then came the waste injection sites. The trucks
began to dump what they called produced water [toxics and water injected
underground and later brought to the surface as wastewater] onto the roads.
It covered our roads. It filled our ditches with toxic chemicals. I drove
past a ditch near Mandaree on the Fort Berthold Reservation and it was on
fire. The fields and pastures along the roads are being poisoned.
The dilemma facing activists is that the enemy is not only the corporations
but also the federal and state governments. Federal and state authority is a
tool used by corporations to make legal what should be illegal. Nonviolent,
democratic dissent is criminalized. This creates a terrifying dilemma. If,
as it does, the law slavishly serves the interests of the corporate
criminals, how is justice to be obtained? If the law, as it does, outlaws
legitimate democratic and nonviolent dissent, how is dissent to be
expressed? If we cannot receive, as we cannot, justice from the courts or
state and federal legislators, where will justice come from? If we cannot
legally impede the destruction of our communities, what are the physical
methods we will have to employ to save ourselves?
The corporations fight us with the government, said Aguirre. The DOGGR
[Californias Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources] makes the claim
that activists want to take jobs from neighbors and families. It claims we
are killing the economy. ... The acute health impacts that occur in the
communities, the disproportionate toxic fumes that these communities
breathe, are never factored in. Our community members are already
marginalized. They live in low-income communities. They cant afford or
dont have health care coverage. And they dont have a voice.
I have been followed by numerous diesel engine trucks [as I made] toxic
tours with my constituents, taking them to fracking projects and refineries
to percolation ponds, evaporation ponds, Aguirre said. Ive been
threatened at public hearings. Ive been called a communist and a socialist.
Ive been called a mouth runner, someone who has been paid by some group to
stir up the community. The board supervisors of my community have told me to
stop doing what I am doing. These are the same elected officials who are
cashing in on the industry.
Justice will come by defying the institutions that claim to maintain
justice. Truth will be heard by defying the institutions that claim to speak
truth. The law will be upheld by breaking the law. Power will be obtained by
overthrowing the power of the corporation state. We will save ourselves by
facing the grim and unpleasant truth that all of the established mechanisms
designed to carry out reform, including what we still call American
democracy, is in corporate hands. We must unleash the power of the
powerless. We must use our bodies to obstruct these forces of death to
protect life. We must refuse to cooperate in our own destruction. Fracking
is one assault. There are many, many others. But they all will lead to the
same fatal conclusion if we do not rise up and resist.
I admire these activists, men and women who soldier forward. They understand
the imperative of a new radicalism. They speak in the language of
revolution. They know if we are to have a future it will entail mass acts of
sustained civil disobedience and jail time. This resistance will mean that
we court violence, maybe even our deaths. Corporations will use every weapon
in their vast arsenals to bend us to their will. But if we do not begin to
openly rebel, if we do not reverse the corporate coup détat that has taken
place, the world bequeathed to our children will be a holocaust.
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Death by Fracking
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/death_by_fracking_20151018/
Posted on Oct 18, 2015
By Chris Hedges
Tanker trucks used in fracking operations line up near gas burn-off flares
at a storage facility in Williston, N.D. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)
DENVERThe maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes
a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One
day, courtesy of corporations such as Halliburton, BP and ExxonMobil, a
gallon of water will cost more than a gallon of gasoline. Fracking, which
involves putting chemicals into potable water and then injecting millions of
gallons of the solution into the earth at high pressure to extract oil and
gas, has become one of the primary engines, along with the animal
agriculture industry, for accelerating global warming and climate change.
The Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers who are profiting from this
cycle of destruction willonce clean water is scarce and crop yields
decline, once temperatures soar and cities disappear under the sea, once
droughts and famines ripple across the globe, once mass migrations
beginsurely profit from the next round of destruction. Collective suicide
is a good business, at least until it is complete. It is a pity most of us
will not be around to see the power elite go down.
I met recently in Denver with three of the countrys leading anti-fracking
activists: Gustavo Aguirre Jr. of KEEN (Kern Environmental Enforcement
Network) in California; Kandi Mossett with the Indigenous Environmental
Network and from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota, the
second-largest oil-producing state because of hydraulic fracturing; and
Shane Davis, a longtime campaigner against fracking and the founder of
fractivist.org, a data mining organization that exposes what fracking
corporations are doing in communities around the country.
The activists are waging a war against a corporate state that is deaf and
blind to the rights of its citizens and the imperative to protect the
ecosystem. The corporate state, largely to pacify citizens being
frog-marched to their own execution, passes environmental laws and
regulations that, at best, slow the ongoing environmental destruction.
Corporations, which routinely ignore even these tepid restrictions, largely
write the laws and legislation designed to regulate their activity. They
rewrite them or overturn them as the focus of their exploitation changes.
They turn public hearings on local environmental issues into choreographed
charades or shut them down if activists succeed in muscling their way into
the room to demand a voice. They dominate the national message through a
pliable and bankrupt corporate media and slick public relations. Elected
officials are little more than corporate employees, dependent on industry
money to stay in office and, when they retire from public service,
salivating for jobs in the industry. Environmental reform has become a joke
on the public. And the Big Green environmental groups are complicit because
they rely on donors, at times from the fossil fuel and animal agriculture
industries; they are silent about the reality of corporate power, largely
ineffectual, and part of the fiction of the democratic process.
Resistance will be local. It will be militant. It will defy the rules
imposed by the corporate state. It will turn its back on state and NGO
environmental organizations. And it will not stop until corporate power is
destroyed or we are destroyed.
Forty years after the major environmental laws were adopted in the U.S.,
and 40 years after trying to regulate the damage caused by corporations to
the natural environment and our communities, by almost every major
environmental statistic things are worse now than they were before, Thomas
Linzey, the executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense
Fund, told me recently.
The fracking industry is omnivorous, biologist Davis noted. It is so
intoxicated and bloated by greed that it has moved into our backyards, near
our school playgrounds, our hospitals, universities, our day cares, our
state parks, our national grasslands, and has its sights on the rest of our
public lands across America unless we stop them, he said.
In writing Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, the cartoonist Joe Sacco
and I visited devastated sacrifice zones where corporate power manipulates
judicial and political power, and has free rein to impoverish families,
destroy or abandon infrastructure, plunder and pollute the environment and
shape the message disseminated by mass communications. Those who organize
and resist are met with intimidation and violence from the state and private
security firms in the pay of corporations.
Sacco and I wrote the book from the poorest pockets of the United States,
including Camden, N.J., the nations poorest city, per capita, among those
with more than 65,000 residents; the Lakota reservation at Pine Ridge, S.D.,
where the average life expectancy for a male is only 48 and where at any one
time 60 percent of residents have neither running water or electricity;
devastated coal fields of southern West Virginia where the tops of
Appalachian mountains have been blown off to extract coal seams and the
landscape has become a wasteland; and produce fields in Florida where
undocumented workers are not only sickened by pesticides but at times are
held in bondage and slavery.
The point of the book, whose last chapter takes place in Zuccotti Park in
Manhattan during the Occupy movement, is this: These sacrifice zones went
first and we are next. We have all become part of a sacrifice zone. It
behooves us to understand what unfettered, unregulated corporate power looks
like, how it operates and what levels of wholesale destruction it inflicts
in the lust for profit on human beings and the environment. If we do not
know how corporate power works, and the lengths it will travel to exploit us
and the ecosystem, we will not be able to fight it. Both in theological
terms and literally, these corporate forces are forces of death.
There is a low-level insurgency, in many of the sacrifice zones and
elsewhere, against the corporations that carry out destruction and plunder,
including fracking. This is an insurgency worth joining. It is a battle far
more important than the charade of presidential elections. Real change will
come only from below. It will come from those participating in efforts such
as the Black Lives Matter movement, the anti-fracking movement and the
movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It will come from radical
organizations that organize outside the system and physically impede
corporate destruction. It will come through open revolt. Our fate as a
species will be determined on these lonely and difficult battlegrounds.
The fracking industry, bolstered by the security and surveillance state, has
devoted tremendous resources to monitoring, demonizing and criminalizing
anti-fracking activists. Activists are followed, harassed, arrested and
defamed in corporate-funded propaganda campaigns even as their communities
see their drinking water poisoned, air polluted, greater earthquake
activity, the dumping of radioactive waste on their land, and farm animals
sickened, born with birth defects and killed by drinking contaminated water.
The oil and gas industry, often backed by state governments, routinely sues
communities that have asserted their democratic rights to ban fracking. The
corporations know that communities in most cases do not have the resources
to challenge high-priced corporate legal teams and lobbyists. This means
that for citizens seeking redress, the courts are largely useless.
High-court decisions in Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico, along with a ruling
by the state Senate in Texas and a law passed in Oklahoma, deny the right of
communities to impose fracking bans. So, in effect, when you raise
consciousness about the dangers of fracking, when you organize to protect
yourselves and your children, when you pass a ban in a democratic vote, your
action is nullified by the courts or the state. The consent of the governed
becomes a farce.
We are being sued by our own governor, Davis said of John Hickenlooper,
whose Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has joined a lawsuit
against the city of Longmont to challenge a vote by Longmont residents to
ban fracking. Communities cannot protect themselves. There are homes in
Colorado where basements have filled up with explosive levels of gases from
previous fracking industry operations, sending people to burn centers. There
are homes where people can light their tap on fire because of high levels of
thermogenic methane in the water. But the victims of fracking are prohibited
by law from safeguarding themselves.
There are more than 15 million Americans, many of them children, who live
within a mile of a fracking site. Most are being exposed daily to a deadly
brew of toxins. Because the oil and gas industry is not required under law
to disclose the chemicals used in fracking, communities are not told what is
being injected into their groundwater. The array of carcinogens is known to
the public only through analysis of samples taken at sites. These samples
include endocrine disruptors and chemicals such as benzene, toluene,
ethylbenzene and xylene. Infrared cameras set up by activists show plumes of
methane and other hydrocarbon gases, invisible to the naked eye, spiraling
upward from underground fracking sites. Methane is a greenhouse gas whose
potential for trapping heat and therefore for global warming has been
estimated at 86 times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
Those who live around fracking sites often suffer skin rashes, nosebleeds,
headaches, respiratory problems, premature births and cancers. Yet the
corporations, along with our governments, doggedly refuse to link the
diseases to fracking. This is a pattern familiar to all who live in
sacrifice zones. Corporations have no intention of being held accountable
for what they do. That would cost money.
A lot of people around me have cancer, said Mossett. Im a cancer
survivor. It has become something that is normal for us. It comes in all
formsbone cancer, lung cancer, uterine cancer and prostate cancer, amongst
others. Even before the fracking began we had seven coal-fired power plants
in North Dakota. Every inch of our over 11,000 miles of rivers, lakes and
streams are already contaminated with mercury. Then fracking started to take
off around 2006. People, at first, had no clue what was coming.
Infrastructure started to be built. We got water towers through the rural
water department. Many saw this as positive. A brand new bridge was built
over Lake Sakakawea.
But once the infrastructure was in place it became apparent that it had been
built to facilitate the extraction of oil by fracking, not improve the lives
of those on North Dakotas reservations.
White people are not the only problem. The fracking corporations, Mossett
said, easily bought off local tribal leaders. Our tribal council [of the
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation] sold us out. The council gave away
sovereignty rights to allow the oil industry to operate on tribal lands. The
council signed contracts to give away parcels of land. It set up front
companies, since you have to be native if you frack on native land. [The
events that Mossett criticized occurred before the election of a new
chairman last year.]
Cancer rages like a plague across the reservations.
The Centers for Disease Control do not show clusters of cancers in our
communities, Mossett said. This is because illness and sickness are coded
out of the place where referrals are made. Since we dont have a hospital to
treat these illnesses, patients are referred to a clinic like the Mayo
Clinic in Minneapolis. So the huge clusters of cancers on the reservation
are not properly documented.
The fracking industry in much of North Dakota, rather than extract the
subterranean gas, burns it off in jets of flame known as flares. It trucks
out the more valuable oil.
The flares burn all day and all night, Mossett said. There are hundreds
of them. They are loud. There is enough gas produced from these flares, some
have estimated, to heat half a million homes every day. And all this is
going into the atmosphere. Then came the waste injection sites. The trucks
began to dump what they called produced water [toxics and water injected
underground and later brought to the surface as wastewater] onto the roads.
It covered our roads. It filled our ditches with toxic chemicals. I drove
past a ditch near Mandaree on the Fort Berthold Reservation and it was on
fire. The fields and pastures along the roads are being poisoned.
The dilemma facing activists is that the enemy is not only the corporations
but also the federal and state governments. Federal and state authority is a
tool used by corporations to make legal what should be illegal. Nonviolent,
democratic dissent is criminalized. This creates a terrifying dilemma. If,
as it does, the law slavishly serves the interests of the corporate
criminals, how is justice to be obtained? If the law, as it does, outlaws
legitimate democratic and nonviolent dissent, how is dissent to be
expressed? If we cannot receive, as we cannot, justice from the courts or
state and federal legislators, where will justice come from? If we cannot
legally impede the destruction of our communities, what are the physical
methods we will have to employ to save ourselves?
The corporations fight us with the government, said Aguirre. The DOGGR
[Californias Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources] makes the claim
that activists want to take jobs from neighbors and families. It claims we
are killing the economy. ... The acute health impacts that occur in the
communities, the disproportionate toxic fumes that these communities
breathe, are never factored in. Our community members are already
marginalized. They live in low-income communities. They cant afford or
dont have health care coverage. And they dont have a voice.
I have been followed by numerous diesel engine trucks [as I made] toxic
tours with my constituents, taking them to fracking projects and refineries
to percolation ponds, evaporation ponds, Aguirre said. Ive been
threatened at public hearings. Ive been called a communist and a socialist.
Ive been called a mouth runner, someone who has been paid by some group to
stir up the community. The board supervisors of my community have told me to
stop doing what I am doing. These are the same elected officials who are
cashing in on the industry.
Justice will come by defying the institutions that claim to maintain
justice. Truth will be heard by defying the institutions that claim to speak
truth. The law will be upheld by breaking the law. Power will be obtained by
overthrowing the power of the corporation state. We will save ourselves by
facing the grim and unpleasant truth that all of the established mechanisms
designed to carry out reform, including what we still call American
democracy, is in corporate hands. We must unleash the power of the
powerless. We must use our bodies to obstruct these forces of death to
protect life. We must refuse to cooperate in our own destruction. Fracking
is one assault. There are many, many others. But they all will lead to the
same fatal conclusion if we do not rise up and resist.
I admire these activists, men and women who soldier forward. They understand
the imperative of a new radicalism. They speak in the language of
revolution. They know if we are to have a future it will entail mass acts of
sustained civil disobedience and jail time. This resistance will mean that
we court violence, maybe even our deaths. Corporations will use every weapon
in their vast arsenals to bend us to their will. But if we do not begin to
openly rebel, if we do not reverse the corporate coup détat that has taken
place, the world bequeathed to our children will be a holocaust.
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