Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear?
Wherefore feed and clothe and save,
From the cradle to the grave,
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat -nay, drink your blood?
Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love's gentle balm?
Or what is it ye buy so dear
With your pain and with your fear?
The seed ye sow another reaps;
The wealth ye find another keeps;
The robes ye weave another wears;
The arms ye forge another bears.
Sow seed, -but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth, -let no imposter heap;
Weave robes, -let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, in your defence to bear.
Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells;
In halls ye deck another dwells.
Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see
The steel ye tempered glance on ye.
With plough and spade and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb,
And weave your winding-sheet, till fair
England be your sepulchre!
torsdag den 8. september 2011
onsdag den 7. september 2011
tirsdag den 6. september 2011
Crimes of the Powerful: Shell.
Brazilian Indians demand Shell leave their land.
Niger Delta villagers go to the Hague to fight against oil giant Shell.
WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed.
Shell, Slammed Over Human Rights and Environmental Abuses, Faces Hearing Over Nigeria.
Shell Accepts Liability for Two Oil Spills in Nigeria.
Dokumentar: Harlan County, U.S.A.
Harlan County, USA is an Oscar-winning 1976 documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike" or "Bloody Harlan",an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
mandag den 5. september 2011
lørdag den 3. september 2011
fredag den 2. september 2011
Dagens Citat: Étienne de La Boétie
I should like merely to understand how it happens
that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so
many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant
who has no other power than the power they give him;
who is able to harm them only to the extent to which
they have the willingness to bear with him; who could
do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to
put up with him rather than contradict him.
- Étienne de La Boétie, 1564
torsdag den 1. september 2011
Dagens Citat: Derrick Jensen.
“Who determines that money is more valuable than life? Who determines that those with money are more powerful? What is money in the end? It is paper. It is metal. It cannot be eaten. The paper can be burned for heat. But it is nothing. It is nothing except what we make of it. It is nothing except what we pretend it to be.”
- Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe, p. 381.
onsdag den 31. august 2011
EU arms exports to Libya: who armed Gaddafi?
The Guardian has done a bit of datamining at one of The European Union's sites and discovered some rather interesting facts revealing how much money various members of the European arms industry have earned by selling weapons to Gadaffi.
Below are some key revelations:
The EU granted export licenses for €834.5m worth of arms exports in the first five years after the arms embargo was lifted in October 2004
2009 is the highest amount ever: €343.7m
Italy is the top exporter, with €276.7m over the five years
The UK got off to a big start in 2005, with €58.9m of the €72.2m total.
UK licenses over the five years are worth €119.35m
Malta saw some €79.7m of guns go through the Island en route to Libya in 2009 - apparently sold via an Italian company.
The Guardian: "EU arms exports to Libya: who armed Gaddafi?"
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