Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
SANTA ANA, Calif.—All resistance will be local. We will have to
dismantle the corporate state, piece by piece, from the ground up. No
leader or politician is going to do it for us. Every community that bans
fracking, every university and institution that embraces the boycott,
divest and sanctions (BDS) movement, every individual who becomes vegan
to thwart the animal agriculture industry’s devastation of the planet
and holocaust of animals, every effort to build self-sustaining food
supplies, every protest to halt the use of lethal force by police
against our citizens, especially poor people of color, every act of
civil disobedience against corporate power and imperialism will slowly
transform our society.
Smoke and fumes from a 2012 fire at the Chevron refinery in
Richmond, Calif., sent 15,000 residents to hospitals or medical offices.
Richmond City Council member Gayle McLaughlin, interviewed in the
article below, is a vocal critic of Chevron’s effect on the environment
and the corporation’s longtime political power over the city. (Eric Risberg / AP)
Richmond, Calif., sent 15,000 residents to hospitals or medical offices.
Richmond City Council member Gayle McLaughlin, interviewed in the
article below, is a vocal critic of Chevron’s effect on the environment
and the corporation’s longtime political power over the city. (Eric Risberg / AP)
