Big Changes

The Big Change

Big changes are headed our way.

People in countries all around the world

are rising up in protest against

economic and political systems

that reward corporations

and the privileged 1% while mistreating

the environment

and the remaining 99% of their people.

It is upon our generation and the next

to re-organize our world into

systems that are fairer

to the people, less oppressive

to the poor and underprivileged

and that don't harm

the environment around us all.

1% talking-heads on the wide-screen TV

say our peoples revolution

is going nowhere because we have

no 'endgame plan.'

This, of course, is non-sense.

After all, that's the way revolutions go.

In 1789, when the French began

their revolution they had no 'endgame plan,'

they just knew the system they had

was oppressive and they knew they had

to throw off their chains in order to be free.

At the beginning of the American

revolution in 1775, those who rose up

against their oppressors had only

vague ideas about what the end-result

of their revolution would be.

As our revolution progresses, our path

to a better world will become clearer

and when the time comes we'll know

what we need to do.

Right now, we know if we don't start

to make big changes

in the way we our societies do business

our children will all be living

in tents by cesspools in a hundred year time.

And that, my friends, in enough knowledge

to know it's time act.

Dewey Dirks