Global Exchange’s World Social Forum Unreality (Tour de force)

What’s going on here?

The time is long past due when so-called activists should be turning blue in the face over such shenanigans. It’s not good enough for people to be well-intentioned. What I’m addressing here as zero to do with the positives in GE’s profile, the efforts/accomplishments in their past.
Business is business. And business must not continue as usual, as it presently exists in place on either side of the aisle. Or I’ll go out of my mind, and the heat emanating from my burst cerebrum will melt Greenland…ahead of schedule. And speaking of Green in this dark light, why don’t you check out who’s making how much money from those Green Festivals that festoon the Alternative Horizon?

On the streets of my Newark, New Jersey –back in the 40s– you couldn’t get by with the sleight of hand, the scams, the disingenuous also-rans that run The Alternative Scene today. The ignorance. The supidity.

How many times have I asked readers to pull their subscription money from off of the Alternative Table? To turn the table over totally by refusing to play the board game that’s set up…with polished pieces, and neatly drawn parameters? Created by a very few. Brand Names.
What GE suggests is that one can be involved, be heartily engaged…without getting uncomfy, following obsolete paradigms. If anyone –and I don’t think there are many at all– who want to apply the same criteria to lefties as they do to the strawmen they routinely (and boringly, and with no apparent advance) knock down, I’d be more than happy to run down the details of my disenchantment with Medea & Co. I promise you that such criticism will not only not bring down the so-called movement any notches, but rather provide the only kind of infusion that could possibly revive it, raise it from The Dead. A bridge of sorts.

What is this craze over the overly-praised?

Take a looksee at the two concluding paragraphs from Deobrah James’ “World Social Forum, Venezuela: Another World Is Possible.” She’s the Global Economy Director of Global Exchange. See http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1571.
Forget about our government, the American people have been too entrenched in non-progressive values and victories for much too long to be candidates for…contributing to change the way in which she suggests. And there’s a total absence of a sense of urgency in her writing. And way too much faith in oil, development. And, more importantly, way too much glue sticking her to the electoral process. Which sticks it to us all. A “better president?” Who might that be? Howard Dean? Not for eviscerated Palestinians without whose well-being we cannot survive.
Not nearly good enough, not nearly soon enough, not nearly true enough. Delineation upon request.

If someone’s selling you Hillary or Nancy or Barbara or any of dose damn Dem guys, well-intentioned or otherwise, I offer only six wise words: “Have I Got A Deal For You!”
There’s a bridge in it for you that opened May 24, 1883.

You go with me to Venezuela, and I promise you –with a moneyback guarantee– that you won’t just talk about The Bridge, you’ll walk over it.

But first, ask yourself why so few alternative outlets will post this piece.

Ricardo Bueyhombre, dueleft@yahoo.com, also offers trips into the “scum-filled” banlieue of Pareeeeeeeee…via http://www.parisgraves.com. There, the Lon Chaney of the Left is known as…Ricard, and –in either case– he’s not selling a book.