<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Among other things, we'll provide a Public Haranguing, sponsored by the <i>Society to Overcome the American Precariat</i> /&/ the <i>Society to Overthrow the American Putonomy</i>, cadet branches of AWARE.<div><br></div><div>Members and Friends of AWARE will declaim statements by Noam Chomsky, Glenn Grenwald, Chris Hedges, and others, that further the mission of the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, from the AWARE S.O.A.P. BOX, by the AWARE table at the Lincoln Square Farmers' Market. Come by and say hello - and stay for conversation with passersby. --CGE</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~~~</div><br><i>'This could be a period of irreversible decline. For the 1% and even less -- the .1% -- it’s just fine. They are richer than ever, more powerful than ever, controlling the political system, disregarding the public...</i><br><br><i>'For decades, Citigroup has been one of the most corrupt of the major investment banking corporations, repeatedly bailed out by the taxpayer, starting in the early Reagan years and now once again ... In 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances.” It urged investors to put money into a “plutonomy index.” The brochure says, “The World is dividing into two blocs -- the Plutonomy and the rest.”<br><br></i><div><i>'Plutonomy refers to the rich, those who buy luxury goods and so on, and that’s where the action is. They claimed that their plutonomy index was way outperforming the stock market. As for the rest, we set them adrift. We don’t really care about them. We don’t really need them. They have to be around to provide a powerful state, which will protect us and bail us out when we get into trouble, but other than that they essentially have no function. These days they’re sometimes called the “precariat” -- people who live a precarious existence at the periphery of society. Only it’s not the periphery anymore. It’s becoming a very substantial part of society in the United States and indeed elsewhere. And this is considered a good thing...<br><br>'So the world is now indeed splitting into a plutonomy and a precariat -- in the imagery of the Occupy movement, the 1% and the 99%. Not literal numbers, but the right picture. Now, the plutonomy is where the action is and it could continue like this.<br><br>'If it does, the historic reversal that began in the 1970s could become irreversible. That’s where we’re heading. And the Occupy movement is the first real, major, popular reaction that could avert this. But it’s going to be necessary to face the fact that it’s a long, hard struggle. You don’t win victories tomorrow. You have to form the structures that will be sustained, that will go on through hard times and can win major victories. And there are a lot of things that can be done.' [Noam Chomsky]<br></i><br></div><div><br></div><div>On May 25, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Karen Medina wrote:<br><div><div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>come see AWARE at the Farmer's Market Saturdays, 8am to noon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>