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peacecoup.us - Ending Market Dictatorships
by peacecoup.us Monday, Dec. 08, 2003 at 6:24 AM

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Market Dictatorships are a threat to peace.

Market Dictatorships are societies where economic value is the only measure of an individual's worth. Access to clean water, food, medicine, and justice should be based on democratic, moral, environmental, human and economic values.

Profits soar when brutal regimes keep labor costs low and resources in ample supply by suppressing the rights of people living under their authoritarian rule. We become too costly as individuals and communities if we seek a living wage, healthcare, environmental protections, representation, and access to information.

Democracy is undermined by Market Dictatorships. Human values are replaced by the economic values of the free market. Market Dictatorships love democracy as long as it remains an authority auction.

As citizens, we can protect our peace, democracy, and fair trade efforts from Market Dictatorships. We have an opportunity to lead by example in the global struggle against Market Dictatorship.

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Corporate Dictatorship
by Beowulf Friday, Dec. 12, 2003 at 12:53 AM
robert.baltlog@swipnet.se

Thanks for stating the obvious; Yet when you use the word "Market" with the word "Dictatorship" you are doing your own treatise a large disservice.

Surely you intend to mean that the combined and temporary control that the minority population (the planet�s largely American owned corporate oligarch)
exercises is the largest thrwat to peace?

Market is the term for the poor saps that actually are still too ignorant of the facts to stop giving their sweaty little dollars to members of that group.

(It isn�t really all that hard at all...just dont shop anywhere but small local outlets, and barter or trade that which is not supplied by those outlets.)

Corporate is the name of the enemy of the people that fully intends to continue to make each and every one of you slaves for life to their pathetically illusory attempt to gain lasting social control and status through manipulating your each and every ego-based whim, desire, prejudice, for a shortlived monetary profit.

But the essence is entirely correct and the wonderful yet so apparently elusive solution to their shortsighted and largely ineffectual (in the longer term, think beyond your own short life) bumbling is always readily at hand;

1. Counterpurchasing tactics (per above)
2. Disinformation campaigns (rat poison where?!?)
3. Civil nonparticipation (food giveaways outside)
4. Continuous picket (24/7)
5. Character assassination of lead figures (he drinks)

I liked what you had to say. Write soon.

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