The Chickens are Organized

Chicken Run, by Lord & Park got to be one of the best stop animation movies I've seen. The title of this note is a line in the movie that stuck in my mind, and has come back to me from time to time. Once I was in the Metro of Mexico City, and saw one vendor call somebody with his cellphone. They are illegally selling stuff inside the trains, so I wonder if they could equally well rob us. They definitely are organized. They are not chickens, but even the ones in the movie, once organized could do more than the handlers thought possible. The line is full of irony, because humans couldn't possible believe it, but  it was true.

Reading Gleick's book, The Information, I just read about the ruler of Russia, many years ago, who started communicating his orders to the millions of his subjects, who were denied the right to call back, or talk among themselves with the, then modern, communication devices.

What a difference time makes. At the same time I am writing this in Chilpancingo, the Spaniard kids in Puerta del Sol  in Madrid are organized through social networks. The "King" Zapatero lost the election.

The little people are coming through.

Here in Mexico a poet, friend of Ivan Illich, by the name of Javier Sicilia is confronting powerful drug lords in political circles.

The Chickens are Organized!