Quote of the Day

The same systems that perpetuate the killing of schoolchildren in the United States perpetuate the killing of Palestinian children in Gaza: supremacy, the belief that some lives are more worthy than others; patriarchy, our culture of division, dominance, and violence; and capitalism, which values profit and power not just over any and all other things, but over all other ideals and even life itself.

We take no action to prevent the murder of one group, while we subsidize the murder of the other. This is America. This is what the U.S.A. stands for in the world. This is refusing to awaken. This is what your flag-waving represents to me.

– Michael Sala
via social media
August 29, 2025

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Two Responses to Today’s Mass Shooting in Minneapolis (8/27/25)
• “A Year of War Against Children”,br> • The Choice Before Us
• Chris Hedges on the End of the American Empire
• Active Hope
• Cultivating Stillness
• Why “Revolutionary Love” Gives Michelle Alexander Hope
• Hope in the Midst of Collapse
• Steve Clemens: “If We Wish to Stand with the Holy Innocents, We Must Stand in Opposition to Empire”

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