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5 Things You Must Do Immediately to Survive andThrive in the 2012
5 Things You Must Do Immediately to Survive and Thrivein the 2012
Jed Diamond, Ph.D. has been a health-care professional for more than 40 years. He is theauthor of 9 books, including
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On May 30, 2011, a leader in the Spanish Indignants movement, inspired by the
Arab Spring made a call for world-wide protests to draw attention to economicinequalities and human rights violations. I still have a vivid image of being in Madrid,Spain, in June 2011 and seeing 40,000 men, women, and children, marching for abetter world.The protest received additional attention when the internet group Anonymous
encouraged its followers to take part in the protests, calling protesters to "flood lowerManhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and Occupy Wall Street". They
promoted the protest with a poster featuring a dancer atop Wall Street's iconicChargingBull.The first protest in the U.S. was held atZuccotti Parkin New York City on
September 17, 2011. The Occupy Movement continues to spread throughout the world.
Two Responses: Love vs. Fear
The phrase “we are the 99%”
is a political slogan used by protesters of the Occupymovement. It refers to the concentration of wealth among the top 1% of income earnerscompared to the other 99 percent. Like all grass-roots protests, the media at firstridiculed the movement. Not surprising since major media are owned by large
corporations that are run by “the 1%.” As writer Jack Etkin says, “
Occupy went afterThe Corporations... so the Corporate-owned-media are attacking Occupy.
”
Police response has been mixed. Those reacting from fear often use violence.Those who are more secure find peaceful means to deal with protests. In Oakland,California, riot-gear clad police officers cleared demonstrators from their encampmentusing rubber bullets and tear gas grenades, gravely wounding an Iraq war veteran in theprocess. The violent raid, authorized by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, was harshly
criticized by Dan Siegel, the mayor's top legal adviser. He called the raid "tragicallyunnecessary" in a press conference announcing his resignation. Siegel, a civil rightsattorney, followed up the press conference with a sharply-worded Twitter post. "SupportOccupy Oakland, not the 1 percent and its government facilitators," Siegel wrote.Other cities have taken a different approach. In Albany, N.Y., a planned move by themayor -- with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- to oust Occupy demonstrators froma city park near the capitol was quashed after the city's police chief and district attorneyaired reservations."So long as we have no violence that is being perpetrated against law enforcementand no damage to state property, there's room for peaceful coexistence here," thedistrict attorney, P. David Soares, said in a recent interview with the Associated Press."I support the right of all parties to assemble peacefully and express their points ofview."2012: Shift Happens EverywhereAlthough the Occupy Movement seems to have emerged out of nowhere andsurprised many people, others have seen the change coming for some time.
As RichardHeinberg goes said in his prophetic 2003 book,
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of
Industrial Societies,
“Industrial societies have been flourishing for roughly 150 years now, using
fossil energy resources to build far-flung trade empires, to fuel the invention of spectacular newtechnologies, and to fund a way of life that is opulent and fast-
paced.”
But the opulent life-style of the 1%, which many in the 99% tried to emulate, could not
continue. “It is as if part of the human race has been given a sudden windfall of wealth anddecided to spend that wealth by throwing an extravagant party,” says Heinberg. “The party has
not been without its discontents or costs. From time to time, a lone voice issuing from here orthere has called for the party to quiet down or cease altogether. The partiers have paid noattention. But soon the party itself will be a fading memory
—
not because anyone decided toheed the voice of moderation, but because the wine and food are gone and the harsh light of
morning has come.”
John Peter is President and founder of The Arlington Institute and is considered by many tobe one of the most informed futurists in the world. In his 2008 book
A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change,
he says, “I believe we are entering one of those punctuation points in
the evolution of our species that will rapidly propel us into an unimaginable new era. This new
world won‟t be at all like what we currently find familiar. Because this shift is so fundamental
and acute, the most positive option will not make sense at all from this vantage so early in thetransition. In the face of almost certain uncertainty, our job is to rise to the occasion, to evolvein our thinking, our perceptions, and in our commitment to make this transition as positive as
possible.”
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