![]() Throughout the pandemic loud appeals to cheap patriotism, at their loudest in the USA, drowned out more muted calls for coordinated worldwide cooperation. ![]() When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, 1995 Such a movement would need to join together the inspiration and commitment of the anti-slavery movement, the civil rights movement, the labour movement, the anti-war movement, the gay and lesbian movement, the environmental movement, to turn the nation in a new direction.' 'If historical experience taught anything, it was that a serious national crisis - a crisis of poverty, drugs, violence, crime, alienation from politics, uncertainty about the future – would not be solved without some great social movement of the citizenry. Priestley’s Postcripts and Peter Whitehead’s The Fall. ![]() ![]() Jerry Whyte reflects on the pandemic, policing and racism in the UK and US with reference to two pivotal years, 19, and with the unlikely assistance of J.B. ![]()
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