"This Land is Our Land"

[marmar]

from OnTheCommons.org:




"This Land is Our Land"
A new DVD highlights the movement to reclaim what belongs to us all

By Matthew Rothschild


I went to the library the other day to return an overdue book of poems by W. S. Merwin, our current poet laureate.

I felt guilty because I’d been depriving other people of his wisdom and his art.

I felt guilty because I was hoarding a public good, part of the commons.

But the very idea of “the commons” is under assault these days from Republicans who want to privatize everything, and from the likes of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who denies that the commons even exists.

We need to reassert our claims to the commons, and we need to restore the concept of the public good. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://onthecommons.org/land-our-land

[RegieRocker]

1. Interesting you brought this up

around where I live they are calling plazas "The Commons" trying to change our idea what commons means. They want us to believe it's privatized areas mainly business owned.

[marmar]

2. Yup.

There are countless strip malls with "Commons" in the name.

[RegieRocker]

4. This is why I'm so adamant

about the changing of word meanings and labeling.

[xchrom]

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