There is a movie based on a communist writer's book: The Warriors. A citywide convention unifies the gangs and threatens to take the city. Flash mobs in Philadelphia are the social network equivalent of our days. I heard yesterday, through National Public Radio, that the police is calling parents to control their children there. Gang activity was also reported in those flash mobs. In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, gangs have also taken control of the city. Mexican President, Felipe Calderón had to face an upset mother recently because he blamed high school kids, instead of the real criminals running the city. You can read in Roberto Bolaños's book, 2666, a fictional representation of social ills there. This border town, is next to El Paso, Texas.
Now comes Detroit: This year's US Social Forum, from June 22 - 26, is going to be held there.
Young people own the future; my generation will be gone when the world will be coming down on their heads. A young 17 year old girl in Russia, took bombs with her, and killed herself in Moscow together with innocent bystanders.
The main point, is that all people now have access to powerful tools.
An American soldier costs one million dollars to send to fight in the Middle East, it costs a fraction of that to kill him or her. This is proof that Another World is Possible, and Necessary.
Finally several tens of billions of dollars have been offered to the millions of Haitians left homeless after the earthquake. Each one, will be getting tens of thousands of dollars, according to my back of the envelop calculations.
Instead of giving this task to Presidents Clinton and Bush, that have proven themselves incapable of solving the problems of the US, let alone the World; I think it will be wiser to give it to Muhammad Yunus, who invented a solution and got a Nobel Prize for it.
Ralph Nader is pursuing a different approach, he is asking wealthy individuals to pitch in. If he doesn't hurry up; grass roots movements will take over.
Are you reading this, Mr. Soros?
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