Title: for the people of Egypt Post by: Rootsie on February 13, 2011, 02:17:30 PM For the people of Egypt
Feb.11, 2011 to be all at once for once and for all unafraid and with such clarity the only place to be- Tahrir-- Liberation squared, a million sudden sisters and brothers in the thick of it water cannon teargas bat bullet rock and you don’t stop taking up the thin gold thread woven through generations “we must hang together or surely we shall all hang separately” kin to beloved sages and nameless sufferers alike with desires so simple so elemental the most human of desires unalienable despite facts of history which seem to indicate their expendability and though the regimes of despots are fragile their demise inevitable there seems no shortage of despots hawk-faced hucksters who trade in fear but “there is something in the soul that cries out for freedom” that abides through oceans of broken bodies and dread silence of extinguished voices, that sprouts unlikely from blasted landscapes something that ever will insist and persist this day they chant “Allahu Akbar!” shoulder to shoulder on another it was “Amandla!” on others “Viva!” Amman, Riyadh, Damascus, Tehran, Tora Bora, take note. The fear you’ve manufactured is all that stands between you and the deluge. Fear turns on a dime. It’s just a matter of time. Title: Re: for the people of Egypt Post by: Rootsie on February 13, 2011, 02:33:28 PM http://sfbayview.com/2010/when-we-say-democracy-we-have-to-mean-what-we-say/
“We are all equal – rich and poor – and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights. But once you speak this way, it becomes a good reason for you to be pushed out of the country or to be kidnapped as I was.” – President Aristide It was American soldiers who kidnapped President Aristide and an American plane that flew him out of Haiti in 2003. The United States cannot talk democracy with one side of its mouth and subvert it with the other. Never again! |