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#