Another world is possible. Alex Weinschenker’s stencil, still up after about a year
Your faith in what you believe must be a living, working faith that draws you away from comfort and security, and toward risk through confrontation.
Derrick Bell
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The greatest danger to our society’s order and social stability is not Communists attacking our shores, but the socio-economic discrimination already endemic across our land.
Derrick Bell, And We Are Not Saved, published in 1987
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1961
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Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.
It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.
And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.
You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
Max Stirner, attributed in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 664
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Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its fear of an army the world changes.
Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price (8 January 1789)
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