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We Are One
  • SaferHealthcare November 2011 +1 -1
    http://local.we-r-1.org/all/events/upcoming
  • SaferHealthcare November 2011 +1 -1
  • darcovadarcova December 2011 +1 -1 (+3 / -0 )
    we need to become one they will back down when we do.

    Agrees: MundusVultDecipi, AnotherChris, iam_occupy

  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi December 2011 +1 -1 (+2 / -0 )
    The Lakota people have a sacred phrase: "Mitakuye Oyasin" which means we are all related, we are one.

    Agrees: AnotherChris, 1loveAl

  • AnotherChris December 2011 +1 -1
    The greatest discovery of anthropology, is to prove what philosophers worldwide have been hoping for millennia. That we all descend from the same ancestors, we all have the same gene-stock. That we ARE one, in fact, and that we doubt this is in fact an illusion.

  • whitefeather December 2011 +1 -1
    I read somewhere our DNA only has a 3% variation which leaves 97% the same. I will try to find where I read this. - 97% of all DNA in humans has the same gene-stock.
  • AnotherChris December 2011 +1 -1
    Just to clarify....

    We share 95% of our genetics, double the difference, as to what was originally thought (ie 98%).... with chimpanzees...

    news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0924_020924_dnachimp.html

    With another human?

    http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitdna/intro03.jsp

    That's right....100%

    And further more, ALL life (including plants), share the same 4 acids that code our dna... kinda like, every painting in the world, being painted with only 3 colours...
  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi December 2011 +1 -1
    http://americanpaki.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/why-i-am-not-protesting-at-occupy/

    This woman finds the phrase 'we are one' dismissive to the environment at hand. She feels white people can more easily proclaim that. I understand where she is coming from but can never understand the racism she encounters. I like the suggestion of taking a civil rights angle on the occupy movement. What do you think?
  • iam_occupyiam_occupy January 2012 +1 -1
    @MundusVultDecipi

    Do you mean the "class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression" those the civil and political rights you're referring to?
  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi January 2012 +1 -1
    Yes.
  • iam_occupyiam_occupy January 2012 +1 -1
    Would Occupy then in this case not call itself 'a grassroots civil- and polical rights movement' by default?
  • slave January 2012 +1 -1 (+1 / -0 )
    What MLK was stumbling on before they killed him in Memphis is that you cannot have "racial" equality, without "economic" equality i.e., "classless society". In other words, what good is it to have a "right" to sit down on the same restaurant with the "white" folk, when they won't serve you anyway because you don't have as much money as they do to afford being served - i.e., you are effectively excluded. The ultimate "civil rights" is ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION, i.e., economic empowerment, abolition of private ownership, establishment of COMMON OWNERSHIP. Rights are not rights, i.e., are privileges, if they are not equal. Equality is rooted in common ownership, its power source.

    Agrees: 1loveAl

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