Something to think about…

There is no doubt about it, we are in the end of an era.
According the experts, tens of millions of people will be jobless by the end of the year.
Tens of millions. I can’t even begin to fathom that number.
20 people overwhelm me.
Thank you banks, corporate capitalist leeches, and everyone else who aided in this contribution of blood sucking from the veins of hard working people.
Those hard working people are fighting back. Acts of protest are happening around the world now.
From Iceland to Bolivia, to right here in the United States, people are sick and tired of losing everything they have worked a lifetime for.
Nom de Guerre wrote a great article going into further detail about all of this.
Read more about it here.
Globalized Resistance
So now what?
Now that people are finally seeing the destructive road that we have been driving down, where is the silver lining, where do we go from here?
The silver lining is that with the end of an era is the dawning of a new era.
Here comes the key word that makes some people cringe, some people fear, and some of us live.
REVOLUTION.
Listen to these words from an old Jewish American anarchist about the importance of perseverance in the pursuit of revolution.

Justice and Freedom, for everybody.
It’s time we usher in the dawn of the new era.

What is this revolution?

According to Laura Nietzel,
“Revolution has been central to the formation of the modern world. The word itself refers to radical, transformative change and has many generic uses describing phenomena from the “industrial revolution” to the “sexual revolution.” As a historical process, “revolution” refers to a movement, often violent, to overthrow an old regime and effect complete change in the fundamental institutions of society. After the French Revolution of the 18th century which deposed the monarchy and attempted to refashion society from top to bottom, revolution became synonymous with the radical overcoming of the past. Modernity, many came to believe, could only be achieved through such violent and total transformation.

The inspiration for many 20th century revolutions was the Russian Revolution of 1917 led by Vladimir Lenin and inspired by the ideas of Marxist Communism. Marx believed that revolution was necessary to move societies from one historical stage to the next, and his formulation strengthened the perception of revolution as a universal and inevitable process in world history.”

Inevitable process in world history.

What can I do?

Here’s one answer, fall in love.

According the “Days of War, Nights of Love”

“Falling in love is the ultimate act of revolution, of resistance to today’s tedious, socially restrictive, culturally constrictive, humanly meaningless world.

Love transforms the world. Where the lover formerly felt boredom, he now feels passion. Where she once was complacent, she now is excited and compelled to self-asserting action. The world which once seemed empty and tiresome becomes filled with meaning, filled with risks and rewards, with majesty and danger. Life for the lover is a gift, an adventure with the highest possible stakes; every moment is memorable, heartbreaking in its fleeting beauty. When he falls in love, a man who once felt disoriented, alienated, and confused will know exactly what he wants. Suddenly his existence will make sense to him; suddenly it becomes valuable, even glorious and noble, to him. Burning passion is an antidote that will cure the worst cases of despair and resigned obedience.”

Read more here.
Join the Resistance: Fall in Love\"

We will be talking more about what we can do in more upcoming posts.

Here’s a couple things you can check out with your free time.
We still have an auction going on at Skeleton Key Auctions to benefit the The West Memphis Three.
We will keep this auction up until the beginning of April, so please check it out and help out the West Memphis Three.

Also, check out Submedia for some new shows to watch, and details on the new Derrick Jensen documentary coming out, End Civ.
Here’s a closing thought from Mr. Derrick Jensen

charlie chaplin said some great things.

So alot of great things are happening right now.

The West Memphis 3 auction has been extended until April 3rd.
In case you haven’t heard about it from my previous post, I’m going to be auctioning off a tattoo, and the proceeds will be doing to defense fund for the West Memphis 3.
Learn more about the West Memphis 3 at wm3.org
Go place a bid at skeletonkeyauctions.com

We have also started a literature distribution table that we will be taking to all the conventions that we (royal street tattoo) go to this year. We will have everything from books, stickers, posters, pamphlets and much more. Majority of everything is free, and the books range from $5 to $8 a piece. We will also have dvds too. We did our first one at the motor city convention this past weekend, and it went awesome! So come by and pick up some stuff from us at the next convention.
We will be at Hell City Killumbus in May, Toronto in June, and Hell City Phoenix at the end of the summer.

We also have alot of things in the works here at Royal Street for the next coming weeks and months.
From food not bombs, to art shows, to many more auctions. It’s really an exciting time.
We are going to start doing an auction once a month, the proceeds going to several different charities.
I will keep everyone up to date with everything going on on this site.
So until then, check out this video.
This is the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Endciv.
learn more at endciv.com