To:

Zcom_simple
Home » Z Blogs » Keegan Smith's Blog » Going to Honduras - The new left enters a new war

Hello,

Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments, and search options, etc. They facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.


Reading and
Navigating Blogs

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet - and always via the left menu of the top page - and can be found via searches, etc.

Commenting on blogs follows the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments including in the forum system. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content for everyone - but one can look at the accumulating content in many ways.

  • For example one can look at one writer's efforts - so one is seeing what is effectively a blog system for that one writer, or Sustainer.
  • One can also look at the content by topic, seeing blogs that are tagged as being about a certain topic - or place, as well. Thus, when doing that, it is a blog system about a topic, or a place, with many contributors.
  • One can look at only writer blogs, or only sustainer blogs, as well.
  • One can look at blogs for particular Groups, too.

All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements.


Creating Blog Posts

If you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and then tag it various ways (such as with a topic or place, or a group tag), and once you do, it is in the system with you as the author.

You can also use the console button to the left to post a blog - anytime and from anywhere in the site, as long as you are logged in.

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you are a Free Member or a Sustainer with a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want to filter for, for example, by you or by your friends or by others - and by topic, about places, for groups, etc.

Blogs

667583

Keegan Smith's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/keegan
Bio: I passionately believe in and am trying to create radical change from capitalism to a system where the needs and well being of society are the priority for the economic and political system. I foll... (More)

All Smith Blogs

Recent Smith Content

Znetarticle_icon ZNet Articles
Zblogpost_icon Blog Posts

Going to Honduras - The new left enters a new war

By Keegan Smith at Jul 06, 2009

PDF Version

Printer Friendly Version
Change Text Size a- | A+

Tomorrow I will be in Honduras. I have been following the news on TeleSurTV and narco news and see the need for international support. I'm not going for the sake of the President Zelaya, I'm going for the battle to control of Latin America the most important front in creating a new world.

I have been following Latin America for the last five years and living in various parts of the continent. An intent observer and student of the processes taking place to create change. The creation of the ALBA and PetroCaribe, the coup in 2002 in Venezuela, the racist attacks on Morales supporters in Bolivia and more recently the election of Fernando Lugo and Funes in Paraguay and El Salvador respectively. These are just a few of pivotal events at the international level that have helped me understand and some that have given me hope for a new world. The battle to create a new economic model which some are calling 21st century socialism is well under way. So far the governments that have taken these measures have only risen in popularity and despite being in it's birthing stages the debate about how to get beyond capitalism has been reawoken. This new wave has been able to overcome hundreds of attacks by right wing media and the subversion of the CIA using NGO's and the terrorists who were instrumental in the wars and dictatorships in the 70's and 80's.

Zelaya is far from a revolutionary figure but the attack on Honduras is an attack against the ALBA from which Honduras immediately withdrew upon the instalation of it's defacto dictator. Honduran TV is dedicating itself to damaging the reputation of President Chavez and all it's ally nations creating an alternaive for Latin America and the world which doesn't depend on American and European hegemony. Zelaya along with the constitution must be defended or El Salvador will be next. The strategy to isolate Venezuela continues.

It's time for those of us who wish to see a new world to stand up. Social movements all over the world are under attack. This strategy isn't about Honduras it's about eliminating alternatives to capitalism and new poles of political power.

I'm going to Honduras. Hopefully I will be able to communicate with you all about it soon. I hope you join me along with the people of Latin America in standing up to this attack.

Together we can defeat this dictatorship and return power to the people in Honduras.

Comment On This Blog Post  See All Comments (1)

582867

Good Luck

By Small, Brian at Jul 07, 2009 23:31 PM

I hope you're lucky enough not to get shot at all in Honduras, but if you do get hit, I hope you're as lucky as George Orwell and don't damage anything vital.

It almost seemsl like a waste to pick up and go somewhere else just when the community you're in now is getting used to seeing you sweat. You might be able to add to permaculture knowledge after getting old milpa farmers to show you their techniques, companion plants, beneficial weeds....

Reply this comment

Comment_reply
667583

Re: Good Luck

By Smith, Keegan at Jul 10, 2009 01:19 AM

Thanks Brian,

all good here so far I'm just about to write another few notes about today. I will be back working the milpa soon enough.. I feel the need to act locally and internationally.. this is a huge attack on the progress of latin america and the right to create a new path to a better country and world.

take care!

Reply this comment

Loading_border