Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me in
a moment of silence
in honour of those who died
in the World Trade Centre
and the Pentagon
last September 11th.
I would also like to ask you
a moment of silence
for all of those who have been
harassed, imprisoned, disappeared,
tortured, raped, or killed
in retaliation for those strikes,
for the victims in both
Afghanistan and the U.S.
And if I could just add one more thing…
A full day of silence
for the tens of thousands of Palestinians
who have died at the hands of
U.S.-backed Israeli forces
over decades of occupation.
Six months of silence
for the million and-a-half Iraqi people,
mostly children, who have died of
malnourishment or starvation
as a result of an 11-year U.S. embargo
against the country.
Believe it or not, it gets worse after that!
all of those who have been harassed, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured, raped, or killed in retaliation for those strikes
Jeremiah Wright's Slurs-R-Us couldn't possibly have made an impression on young Obama in twenty years, could he? But, then, Obama didn't leave the church in 2006, he left in 2008. Wonder what took him so long?
pdf here
Hat tip Weasel Zippers
Cross Posted at Say Anything
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