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The Red Paint of Resistance Flung at the Felonious Masters of Greed
On mid-day Monday March 26 Bay Area poets and writers spoke out amidst rainshowers, reading aloud poems and prose of solidarity with Oaxaca on the doorstep of the Mexican Consulate. Poets and writers included: Jack Hirschman, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Rebecca Solnit, Bill Evans, Larry Bogad, Aryeh Shell and Asha. Ted Lewis of the human rights group global Exchange gave an update from the family of Brad Will's recent visit to Mexico. Labor organizer Frank Martin Del Campo and local activist and friend of Brad Will's Jene' were masters of ceremony.
Two-minute QT movie. 27MB.
Two-minute QT movie. 27MB.
THE LAVA OF MOLTEN HOPE
For the Oaxacan strikers and in memory
of those murdered in the struggle
Double the pesos of the thousands
of teachers of the children of Oaxaca,
and for URO a one-way ticket
out of the State
with his bags stuffed
with corruption, repression and blood.
The Mexico that's arriving,
that's knocking
on the door of tomorrow,
whose Viva! Has been appearing
once more on the lips
of peoples the world over---
this Mexico, of Oaxacan defiance
and Chiapas poetry armed
with justice and dignity
worthy of those who seed
the future in the minds and hearts
of Mexico's kids,
is the lava of molten hope
flowing to all who are
corporately imprisoned,
is the red paint of resistance
flung at the felonious
masters of greed.
---Jack Hirschman
For the Oaxacan strikers and in memory
of those murdered in the struggle
Double the pesos of the thousands
of teachers of the children of Oaxaca,
and for URO a one-way ticket
out of the State
with his bags stuffed
with corruption, repression and blood.
The Mexico that's arriving,
that's knocking
on the door of tomorrow,
whose Viva! Has been appearing
once more on the lips
of peoples the world over---
this Mexico, of Oaxacan defiance
and Chiapas poetry armed
with justice and dignity
worthy of those who seed
the future in the minds and hearts
of Mexico's kids,
is the lava of molten hope
flowing to all who are
corporately imprisoned,
is the red paint of resistance
flung at the felonious
masters of greed.
---Jack Hirschman
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