Waste to Energy. End the War on Drugs! Update June 5 2011We did it! Last week Avaaz Executive Director Ricken Patel hand-delivered our over half a million signatures to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, world leaders and the global media in New York. At the meeting Ban Ki Moon heard our call to action and agreed to create a new UN task force to develop a comprehensive approach to drugs and organized crime. This is a major step forward towards ending the war on drugs as the approach will include a public health, education and prevention focus. We will continue to push to make sure this senseless and brutal war is ended. Stay tuned for how together we can keep up the pressure!
Update June 1 2011 Amazing! Posted May 30 2011In 72 hours, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the ‘war on drugs’. Experts all agree that the most sensible policy is to regulate, but politicians are afraid to touch the issue. This could be a once-in-a-generation tipping-point moment -- if enough of us call for an end to this madness. End the War on Drugs! The World in Action.
Official Home of the Free Hugs Campaign - Inspired by Juan Mann - Home. American Psychosis. The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble.
This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears [or Miley Cyrus], enthralls the country … despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class. The virtues that sustain a nation-state and build community, from honesty to self-sacrifice to transparency to sharing, are ridiculed each night on television as rubes stupid enough to cling to this antiquated behavior are voted off reality shows.
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States.