Now Subscribe“Reflection of Passion” Please Like, Comment and Share. Published on Dec 30, 2020 We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species towards extinction. They are stripping us of our most basic civil liberties and freedoms. They are orchestrating the growing social inequality, concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a cabal of global oligarchs of fraud and theft. They are destroying our democratic institutions. The goal is to render people superfluous, pushed to the margins of society where they and their children are no longer considered to have value, value always determined by the amount of money produced and amassed. We may feel in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, culture and ecosystem, powerless and weak, but we are not. We have a power that terrifies the ruling elites and all those we honor today are evidence of this power. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored, chips away at the edifice of power. All acts of rebellion keep alive the embers for larger movements to follow. It passes on another narrative. It will, as the rot of the state consumes itself, attract wider and wider numbers. Perhaps this will not happen in our lifetime, but if we persist, we will keep this possibility alive. If we do not it will die. Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, gives 2020 Keynote for the Allard Prize for international integrity - awarded to an individual, movement or organization that demonstrates exceptional courage & leadership in combating corruption
