"until they become conscious they will never rebel" ~George Orwell [so why isn't the P&J Industry working on this american problem? Rhetorical question: they provide a function every bit as important as CIA/corporate owned MSM. btw; many felt our last UPandOUT film was the best we ever screened - American Empire: an Act of Collective Madness. I think our November film is as good, and maybe more pointed: Last Word on the Assassination (of JFK). "John f Kennedy was shot from the front; everybody knows it - especially the government." ~Jim Garrison. I recently read Farewell to Justice, by Joan Mellen (she's in the Nov JFK film). What an eye-opener; i didn't know that it's accepted as fact by many, if not most, govt figures that the CIA did it. And I didn't know how massively pervasive is the CIA infiltration of all our media sources and companies. And that this is well understood by govt figures. Did you know? The CIA/MIC also runs the ad agencies - that protect corporate criminals, and that sell their wars. Americans are being massively brainwashed. We're not the only ones, tho surely the most gullible. See European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure.  Yes the corporations own our politicians. But they couldn't get away with their rackets were it not for the CIA/MIC. This is our real problem: the fascist control of our government by the CIA/MIC. Can you change the system from within? Think, america. They won't tolerate democracy elsewhere; you think they'll tolerate it here? These renegades - that teach torture, assassinate at will and with impunity,  supply the world with WMD, toss human beings out of airplanes and tall buildings, install military dictatorships across the planet, create & use bio- and chemical weapons, bomb with impunity,  overthrow heads of state, initiate multiple ongoing terrifying wars - killing and maiming millions,  imprison (or worse) whistleblowers and civil rights workers etc etc etc - they're going to change what they're doing because you 'protest?' Because you want the law changed?  Because you vote ( for one of their stooges)? Think again. Please. a must see, whether you've heard him before or not; very important now especially, with MSM promoting election follies - along with the other usual suspects. Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion Chris Hedges speaks on 29/3/2014 at the "One Nation Under Surveillance" civil liberties conference at CCSU in CT. He's introduced by Mongi Dhaouadi, Executive Director of CAIR-CT. Hedges was one of he plaintiffs in a suit against the government "indefinite detention" policy. He's a former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times He's written "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt", "What Every Person Should Know About War", "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning", and other books.  He's a columnist at TruthDig excerpts: "Thomas Paine described despotic governments as a fungus, growing out of a corrupt civil society. And this is what has happened to us. No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, messages, meetings, proclivities and habits are recorded, stored and analyzed is free. ... The defense of liberty which Snowden exhibited when he cast his fortune, his safety and his life aside to inform the public of the forces arrayed against our constitutional rights entails grave risks. It demands personal sacrifice. Snowden has called us to the sacrifice. He has allowed us to see who we are and what we have become. He has given us a chance. He has also shown us the heavy cost of defiance. It is up to us to seize this chance and dismantle the corporate state. This means removing from power those who have stolen our liberty and lied to us. It means refusing to naively trust in their cosmetic reforms. Reforms will never come for [from?] those who are complicit in crime. Reform will come, and only come, through the building of mass movements and alternative centers of power that can overthrow - let me repeat that word for homeland security - overthrow the corporate state. If we fail to sever these chains, we will become - like many who did not rise up in time to save their civil societies - human chattel. This means that we too must defy the law, and engage in civil disobedience. There is no other way for the truth to be told and there is no other way for justice to be recovered. Do not be fooled by those in power. They will not save us. We can only save ourselves. ... We must find like Snowden the moral and physical courage to tear down the structures that enslave us. Appealing or trusting to these structures is a waste of time. And all those who insist that we be patient, that we trust the system to reform itself, offer an argument that is as cogent as the one made by the March Hare during the mad tea party in Alice in Wonderland. "Have some wine," the March Hare said, in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked. "There isn't any," said the March Hare.