YOU ASK US WHY WE SING We sing for those who died in the silence For those who died weeping For those who died screaming For those who died quietly From hunger and lack of clean water. We sing for those who dream, stubbornly, for justice For those who laugh in the darkness For those who die singing For those who work Endlessly labor For life, for freedom For we know that greed and despair Poverty and torture and war Are not our true selves And that love and gentle resolve Our song and our silence Are stronger than death And that, at the end, They will not falter
This poem written about the by an unknown Chilean poet during the Pinochet years of mass deaths and torture inflicted on the people of Chile and takes on broader meaning in light of the mass murders by bombing in Gaza. Thank you to Paul Baker Hernandez who is visiting the U.S. from Nicaragua for sharing the poem. For more information about his appearances and tour contact vfpchapter27@gmail.com or call 612-821-9141.
Global and Local Peace and Justice for All
Be Engaged in Activism
Cultivate Collaborative Communities
Normalize Resistance Rest and Rise
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NEW LANGUAGE
NEW GLOBAL POWER FORMATIONS
NEW MODES OF POLITICS
“Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them.
Social movements must move outside of national boundaries and join with others across the globe to fight the savagery of neoliberal global politics and central to such a task is the work of intellectuals, artists, cultural workers, and others who can fashion new tools and social movements in the fight against the current anti-democratic threats being imposed all over the globe.”
— Henry A Giroux
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ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The ‘apocalyptic’ chess game between the superpowers, that is, between those that move on the highest plane of our civilization, is being played according to the rule ‘if either “wins” it is the end of both’; it is a game that bears no resemblance to whatever war games preceded it. Its ‘rational’ goal is deterrence, not victory, and the arms race, no longer a preparation for war, can now be justified only on the grounds that more and more deterrence is the best guarantee of peace. To the question how shall we ever be able to extricate ourselves from the obvious insanity of this position there is no answer.”
The U.S. needs to join other countries worldwide in banning nuclear weapons.
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“Resistance is no longer an option, it is now a matter of life or death. The lights are going out on democracy across the globe and the time to wake up from this nightmare is now.” —Henry A Giroux
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