It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.



Monday, April 07, 2003
 
"They didn't care. They just attacked the picket line. They declared it an illegal assembly and gave people two minutes to disperse. The police did not move to arrest anyone, they just started shooting.''

~ Steve Stallone, spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and witness to Oakland Police action against peace protesters at the Port of Oakland. Police fired bean bags, tear gas, BBs and wooden dowels at activists engaged in civil disobedience.

Source: Associated Press, 4/7/2003

Meanwhile, the Independent of London helps put this all in perspective:





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