Jerry Brown
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"Edmund Gerald" ""Jerry"" "Brown, Jr." is an American attorney, politician and member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party who has served as the List of Governors of California/39th Governor of California since 2011, having previously served as California's 34th Governor from 1975 to 1983. Both before and after his original two terms as Governor, Brown served in numerous state, local and party positions and he has three times run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

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Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

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Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us.

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

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Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

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Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches. They don't play in the same parks. They don't swim in the same pools. They don't go to the same movies.

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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world.

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