The World Can't Wait

 

On Thursday October 5. 2006 in Minneapolis at the Federal Building, this is the day that mainstream America will take a collective step together, peacefully.

After reading the organization's website, I found that it didn't matter whether I agreed with everything on the long, long list of concerns. If I had one issue or concern - The World Can't Wait - has a peaceful agenda. 'Peace' is at the core of the demonstration...Whether its one person just looking for personal peace of mind, maybe another person yearns for peaceful policy resolutions, or someone else wishes for peace, love and joy.

I've got to believe that anyone who looks at the list of concerns will find at least one thing that they really care about. Out of all the people I have had casual conversations with, the one thing that seems to be a common link, is that everyone feels that there is something very wrong within our nation, something is not right...So much so that people cannot put there finger on just what 'exactly' is making them feel this way.

When you were a kid, did you go on trips in the car? Did your parent ever get turned around after a bathroom stop and start driving back the way you came? Remember that feeling in your gut that told you - the kid - that you were moving in the wrong direction, trying to get your Mom or Dad to listen? Remember how they ignored you as - the kid, until they saw the sign that said "98 miles" back to the town you had already passed through? It's that feeling!

Don't forget about the feeling you had after you learned your parents had just rushed back in a panic, because they forgot you were in the bathroom? They drove off without you, taking 10 or 15 minutes to realize you weren't in the car. Or, were you that parent? Its that feeling!

My conversations with others rarely center on anything political, its typically about local everyday happening. What used to be simple everyday pleasures or planned time off moments...They're being constantly consumed by things that cause stress and worry. Like never before - it just keeps on growing. You can see 'it' in more faces and hear 'it' in more voices....And it ain't fear from the threat of terrorism.

The famous photograph of the woman called "Migrant Mother" taken in the great depression, reminds me of what that look is, before The veil of severe hardship shackles ones face and body? Link to
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression and transfix your eyes and imagination to a world thought long forgotten.

You can actually find tent cities today, scattered around our nation, you can see people sitting in a circle within our cities - hidden by brush and alleys - cooking food on an open fire, you will find business owners excessively cautious and alert...making sure no one is left in the building - to sleep, wash up or eat.

Look at the results of Social Service Privatization in Texas...An American Social Responsibility gone tragically to outsourcing in another country.
PS...Even across from my own backyard, a neighboring county - I'll call Hennepin, seems to be outsourcing its Customer Service Representatives for certain programs, to another country?

Since this 'bad governing' is occurring all over the nation, no wonder certain party's don't want to talk about immigration this session, AKA as people from other country's. Are they worried this knowledge will cause more bad press. I'm pretty sure this poor approach to doing social government business in this country - using another country, wouldn't go over too well. A trick with mirrors that is not good United States governing, at all.

If October 5th masses the level of passion and determination that the average citizens privately feels, it will be the start of something too powerful to be suppressed, peacefully.