Last week while the most dangerous criminals in America gathered in St. Paul, the Organic Consumers Association showed up with a fantastic goal: Planting Peace. The movement is a cross between the peace movement, the stop global warming movement, and the organics movement... and I have a hunch that MANY of us consider ourselves members of all three. In fact, there's an obvious link between the three causes: OIL. Those of us who want no war for oil also want a sustainable energy solution to replace oil and a sustainable food system to replace the oil-drive one we've got now.
I doubt that too many of the Republicans got the hint from our peaceful friends who joined them in St. Paul, but their presence in St. Paul filled an important role. Organic Consumers Association was one of the relatively few websites or media outlets that reported on the police brutality to RNC protesters. I find it ironic that the anti-democratic thugs went about their convention with impunity while the pro-democracy protesters (including Amy Goodman of Democracy Now) were beaten, pepper gassed, and jailed. What a telling metaphor for the state of our democracy.
