Thursday, October 31, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Save the Elephants
For a slide show of photos of the San Francisco portion of the
Save the Elephants events, October 2013, go to the following link, click on the first photo to start slide show, and proceed by clicking indicator on the right:
Save the Elephants
Assata Shakur
"Affirmation"
by Assata Shakur
I
believe in living.
I
believe in the spectrum
of
Beta days and Gamma people.
I
believe in sunshine.
In
windmills and waterfalls,
tricycles
and rocking chairs.
And
i believe that seeds grow into sprouts.
And
sprouts grow into trees.
I
believe in the magic of the hands.
And
in the wisdom of the eyes.
I
believe in rain and tears.
And
in the blood of infinity.
DDD
I
believe in life.
And
i have seen the death parade
march
through the torso of the earth,
sculpting
mud bodies in its path.
I
have seen the destruction of the daylight,
and
seen bloodthirsty maggots
prayed
to and saluted.
DDD
I
have seen the kind become the blind
and
the blind become the bind
in
one easy lesson.
I
have walked on cut glass.
I
have eaten crow and blunder bread
and
breathed the stench of indifference.
DDD
I
have been locked by the lawless.
Handcuffed
by the haters.
Gagged
by the greedy.
And,
if i know any thing at all,
it’s
that a wall is just a wall
and
nothing more at all.
It
can be broken down.
DDD
I believe
in living.
I
believe in birth.
I
believe in the sweat of love
and
in the fire of truth.
DDD
And
i believe that a lost ship,
steered
by tired, seasick sailors,
can
still be guided home
to
port.
"Assata Shakur Is Not a Terrorists":
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174209/assata-shakur-not-terrorist#
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