In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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Sun, 2008/11/30 - 7:43pm — Benjamin Melançon
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[A] community organizing campaign to halt the home mortgage foreclosures in their region [...] likely to be one of the first textbook community organizing campaigns during the Obama presidency (and one that, if it continues on track, may just shake national and international attention and change, from below, the context by which the administration will have to govern) [... The ] the anti-foreclosure campaigns underway [will bring the day] when the first county sheriff finds himself confronted by neighbors surrounding a home to stop him from evicting the foreclosed-upon residents without a big national fight
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We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.