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Published on Monday, October 24, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/24-5
by Harvey Wasserman
The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing---and saving---the world.
Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed.
A long-term agenda seems to be emerging: social justice, racial and gender equality, ecological survival, true democracy, an end to war, and so much more. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power," said Jimi Hendrix, "the world will know peace."
Such a moment must come now in the nick of time, as the corporate ways of greed and violence pitch us to the precipice of self-extinction.
At that edge sits a sinister technology, a poisoned cancerous power that continues to harm us all even as 3 of its cores melt and spew at Fukushima.
Atomic energy, the so-called "Peaceful Atom", has failed on all fronts.