Friday, April 28, 2006
I've Committed Myself to Writing a Poem About Labor and Immigration for May Day!
I cannot talk about Labor, without talking about immigration.
My friend Cynthia explained it best, and I paraphrase:
If you are from the North of Turtle Island all the way to the Southern tip of what is currently known as South America, you have more of a right to be here than the imperialist and arrogant people who are descendents from other parts of the world and who currently occupy by force the country currently known as the United States and the continents currently known as North and South America.
People Love to tell me immediately when I complain about issues such as this that I am half white. The reason why I am a mixed blood is because the imperialist invaders designed it that way (yes, their is documented evidence). That is part of the imperialist imposed genocide upon my people. Divide their blood, divide their people. Mixed bloods are not as pure and Beautiful and Human as those of purely non-indigenous ancestries. The imperialist invaders were too tired to exterminate us and decided to define us out of existence using white man mathematics through degrees of blood to define us out of existence. Lame Deer said, and I paraphrase, it's not you blood but what you do with it. I was designed to be this way. Divide their blood, divide their people. Millions of us were designed to be this way because it is much easier to tell me that I'm half white than to deal with the imperialist led genocide against my people. It is something that can be easily used to keep us separated. POOF! This nation refuses to deal with the crimes it has comitted against my people, and so many others, simply because...I am half white. We all benefit from genocide.
I found out a few things about the local history of a town just South of here called Silverton. Some 100 years ago, some white people had grown tired of the Indians hanging out on their lands and not recognizing their borders. The Indians did not understand their place in this world, which was to be dead and gone. So the locals in two different massacres slaughtered many Indians because they knew they would be allowed to get away with the crime because...well...we Indians weren't considered human beings, just like the people from the South that this culture alleges to be immigrants. Here, I will honor the name of Crooked Finger, a leader amongst his peoples who did his best to protect them from the slaughters led by the locals of Silverton.
That is the energy behind this nation: Imperialism and Genocide. It is NOT OK to behave in such a manner! Not here! Not ANYWHERE!
The only people who benefit from this cultural behavior are the wealthy. The wealthy have stolen their gain from we the people via genocide; imperialist dictates; military oppression; human rights violations; violations of local, state, national, and international laws... It benefits only the wealthy that the masses don't educate themselves and only listen to what the wealthy tell them.
In an attempt to impose a fascist regime in the United States to protect the wealth of the few that possess it, a wealthy man had a conversation with Smedley Darlington Butler in 1934. He wanted to buy Smedley, because they knew Smedley could raise an army to take over the U.S. govnernment. The man told Smedley he was willing to use half of his wealth to protect the other half. He knew he could use his money and the money of his other wealthy friends to pay people to kill their fellow human beings to overthrow the U.S. government and oppress the people of the nation using that military might. He could and was willing to create great suffering to insure his own personal wealth. Smedley, being an honorable man who Loved the people, told the man to get out of his house. I allege the U.S. government is nothing but a tool to protect the wealth of the few and it is evident in their behavior.
Fascists will stop at nothing. They will and do violate human rights. They will murder and slaughter and commit genocide. They will rape and promote a rape culture in order to protect their wealth. They will take away all the power of the workers to have a say over their work.
I believe it is safe to assume that most people do not know that forming a union is a human right! Most people don't know that labor has the human right to have a say over their work and its means of production! The imperialists don't want the people to know this because then the people may start to think. They might think things like: How does my work effect my health, mentally, physically, emotionally...? How does my work effect the world at large? How does it effect my community? Why don't I have a say in my employer sending my work overseas where labor is treated with such horrific human rights violations that one realizes that it is crminal? Corporate behavior is criminal. Why are we arresting pot smokers who don't harm people while these global criminals are allowed to violate the human rights of people all over the world? What kind of world would we create? We all have the power to reclaim our world in great and small actions, personal and en masse. What are you waiting for?
Don't ask me what you should or could do? Ask yourself! Talk with those around you. Educate yourself. Do what you can. Use your talents. Don't ask me what you could or should do? Figure it out! You know yourself well enough to understand your own talents and how you can use them to change the world. Like Helen Caldicott says, we are all born to save the world.
And don't forget to dance, dammit! Like Emma Goldman said, and I paraphrase: "If I can't dance at your Revolution, I aint gonna come!" Use the power of celebration, personal and en masse, to create the energy to keep yourself on a path of Beauty and change in the world. Beauty, Pleasure, Happiness, Joy, Sex, Unions, Friendship, Love, People, Nature, and many more of the wonderful Beauties are out there for you. Celebrate Beauty like you would have the seventh generation celebrate beauty and use that energy to create change.
DANCE! CELEBRATE! LOVE LIFE! BRING ABOUT CHANGE!
Taking up arms is not an option in my opinion. This nation has created many people who don't think and just follow orders and carry guns. These people are willing to kill by simply taking orders without question. So we have to be creative. We have to change the hearts of these people. Their souls have been stolen just as surely as this land has been stolen and occupied by the genocidal forces currently known as the United States.
Be creative! Be Beautiful! Feel and Love and Celebrate Life! What do you want for the generations yet to come? Find it, create it, learn from it, and keep your eyes on that goal! We'll get there, one at a time and en masse!
REVOLUTION NOW!
My friend Cynthia explained it best, and I paraphrase:
If you are from the North of Turtle Island all the way to the Southern tip of what is currently known as South America, you have more of a right to be here than the imperialist and arrogant people who are descendents from other parts of the world and who currently occupy by force the country currently known as the United States and the continents currently known as North and South America.
People Love to tell me immediately when I complain about issues such as this that I am half white. The reason why I am a mixed blood is because the imperialist invaders designed it that way (yes, their is documented evidence). That is part of the imperialist imposed genocide upon my people. Divide their blood, divide their people. Mixed bloods are not as pure and Beautiful and Human as those of purely non-indigenous ancestries. The imperialist invaders were too tired to exterminate us and decided to define us out of existence using white man mathematics through degrees of blood to define us out of existence. Lame Deer said, and I paraphrase, it's not you blood but what you do with it. I was designed to be this way. Divide their blood, divide their people. Millions of us were designed to be this way because it is much easier to tell me that I'm half white than to deal with the imperialist led genocide against my people. It is something that can be easily used to keep us separated. POOF! This nation refuses to deal with the crimes it has comitted against my people, and so many others, simply because...I am half white. We all benefit from genocide.
I found out a few things about the local history of a town just South of here called Silverton. Some 100 years ago, some white people had grown tired of the Indians hanging out on their lands and not recognizing their borders. The Indians did not understand their place in this world, which was to be dead and gone. So the locals in two different massacres slaughtered many Indians because they knew they would be allowed to get away with the crime because...well...we Indians weren't considered human beings, just like the people from the South that this culture alleges to be immigrants. Here, I will honor the name of Crooked Finger, a leader amongst his peoples who did his best to protect them from the slaughters led by the locals of Silverton.
That is the energy behind this nation: Imperialism and Genocide. It is NOT OK to behave in such a manner! Not here! Not ANYWHERE!
The only people who benefit from this cultural behavior are the wealthy. The wealthy have stolen their gain from we the people via genocide; imperialist dictates; military oppression; human rights violations; violations of local, state, national, and international laws... It benefits only the wealthy that the masses don't educate themselves and only listen to what the wealthy tell them.
In an attempt to impose a fascist regime in the United States to protect the wealth of the few that possess it, a wealthy man had a conversation with Smedley Darlington Butler in 1934. He wanted to buy Smedley, because they knew Smedley could raise an army to take over the U.S. govnernment. The man told Smedley he was willing to use half of his wealth to protect the other half. He knew he could use his money and the money of his other wealthy friends to pay people to kill their fellow human beings to overthrow the U.S. government and oppress the people of the nation using that military might. He could and was willing to create great suffering to insure his own personal wealth. Smedley, being an honorable man who Loved the people, told the man to get out of his house. I allege the U.S. government is nothing but a tool to protect the wealth of the few and it is evident in their behavior.
Fascists will stop at nothing. They will and do violate human rights. They will murder and slaughter and commit genocide. They will rape and promote a rape culture in order to protect their wealth. They will take away all the power of the workers to have a say over their work.
I believe it is safe to assume that most people do not know that forming a union is a human right! Most people don't know that labor has the human right to have a say over their work and its means of production! The imperialists don't want the people to know this because then the people may start to think. They might think things like: How does my work effect my health, mentally, physically, emotionally...? How does my work effect the world at large? How does it effect my community? Why don't I have a say in my employer sending my work overseas where labor is treated with such horrific human rights violations that one realizes that it is crminal? Corporate behavior is criminal. Why are we arresting pot smokers who don't harm people while these global criminals are allowed to violate the human rights of people all over the world? What kind of world would we create? We all have the power to reclaim our world in great and small actions, personal and en masse. What are you waiting for?
Don't ask me what you should or could do? Ask yourself! Talk with those around you. Educate yourself. Do what you can. Use your talents. Don't ask me what you could or should do? Figure it out! You know yourself well enough to understand your own talents and how you can use them to change the world. Like Helen Caldicott says, we are all born to save the world.
And don't forget to dance, dammit! Like Emma Goldman said, and I paraphrase: "If I can't dance at your Revolution, I aint gonna come!" Use the power of celebration, personal and en masse, to create the energy to keep yourself on a path of Beauty and change in the world. Beauty, Pleasure, Happiness, Joy, Sex, Unions, Friendship, Love, People, Nature, and many more of the wonderful Beauties are out there for you. Celebrate Beauty like you would have the seventh generation celebrate beauty and use that energy to create change.
DANCE! CELEBRATE! LOVE LIFE! BRING ABOUT CHANGE!
Taking up arms is not an option in my opinion. This nation has created many people who don't think and just follow orders and carry guns. These people are willing to kill by simply taking orders without question. So we have to be creative. We have to change the hearts of these people. Their souls have been stolen just as surely as this land has been stolen and occupied by the genocidal forces currently known as the United States.
Be creative! Be Beautiful! Feel and Love and Celebrate Life! What do you want for the generations yet to come? Find it, create it, learn from it, and keep your eyes on that goal! We'll get there, one at a time and en masse!
REVOLUTION NOW!
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