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The Cause is the Heart's Beat
Some stood up once, and
sat down
Some walked a mile, and walked away
Some
stood up twice, then sat down,
"I've had it" they said,
Some
walked two miles,
then walked away
"It's too much," they
cried.
Some stood and stood and stood
They were taken
for fools
They were taken for being taken in
Some walked
and walked and walked
They walked the earth,
They walked the
waters,
They walked the air
"Why do you stand," they
were asked,
"and why do you walk?"
"Because of the
children," they said,
"And because of the heart,
And
because of the bread,"
"Because the cause is the heart's beat
And the children born
And the risen bread"
by Father Daniel Berrigan
Read & shared by Howard Zinn
More Patriots
And the Risen Bread Father by Daniel Berrigan
selected Poems 1957-1997
non-Violent Action
Disarmed and Dangerous
( Daniel & Philip Berrigan)
by Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady
Patriot
A Persistent PEACE by Father John Dear
...for a NonViolent WORLD
Patriot
Disturbing the PEACE: The story of Father Roy
Bourgeois and the movement to Close the School of
Americas by James Hodge
'Journalists Bear Witness No Matter the Cost'
by Randolph T. Holhut
~ Dangerous Times Around the World ~
Reporters without Borders (*RWB*) “ Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on Journalists seemed so numerous.” That's why in 2011 , according to *RWB*, 66 Journalists were killed world wide 1,044 were arrested , 1,959 were physically attacked or threatened , 499 were censored , 71 were kidnapped , and 73 had to flee the country.
"Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defense or the Pentagon , and all the sanitized
language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes ...the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for wives , mothers for their children. Our mission is to report the Horrors of WAR with accuracy and without prejudice.”-Marie Colvin Times of London (killed)
The Commons
Independent Online
direct from:Windham County ,
*VERMONT*
News Editor Randolph T. Holhut
*Randy also edited:the George Seldes Reader* (about the admired dean of Investigative Reporters & Witness to a Century ~George Seldes~ also author of The Great Thoughts)
From MURDERED by CAPITALISM
by JOHN ROSS
"They were just doing a job.
Making the World
Safe for Democracy. Saving LIVES."
Napalm bombs , phosphorous bombs , carpet bombs , cluster bombs , fragmentation bombs , seismic bombs , dirty bombs , clean bombs , dumb bombs , smart bombs , germ bombs , depleted -Uranium bombs , bombs that suck up all the air , bombs that paralyze all the computers , the Hydrogen bomb , the Neutron bomb , which kills All THE PEOPLE but leaves private property intact , the Mother of All Bombs , the MOAB , like God herself , all of them as Patriotic as the Cherry bombs that blow up the Sky each Fourth of July.” “...I saw a baby's car seat , a woman's high heel shoe , a torn book whose fly leaf was splotched with encrusted sand that made it look like the map of a country I had never visited. There were cluster bombs everywhere. They had floated down on parachutes as if they were Christmas toys and when the kids picked them up , the shrapnel flew into their faces. Other bombs had burrowed into the sand , converting the desert into a death trip for all who walked there. Some of the bombs were designed to blow your feet off , others your legs , still others your testicles and torso.
"The Bombmakers sit in their cubicles in those same impeccably white lab coats , sipping coffee and designing these Insidious Instruments of DEATH like so
many secret Shivas.”
"The only good bomb is a bad bomb."
John Ross ~ Patriot ~ Investigative Reporter
Murdered By Capitalism
Poet Michael Silverstein
a snippet from:
Hunting the Elusive Low Wage Haven
It used to be so easy to increase our money flow,
We'd moved a plant from Tennessee to Northern
Mexico,
And if that weren't good enough
we could always cut costs finer,
By finding a relocation site in far-off mainland
China.
But then , our chief competitor devised a slicker
plan,
He moved soft goods production to a site in
Pakistan,
When even that change didn't with his
profit planning mesh,
He tapped the child labor pool in nearby
Bangladesh.
The nice guy time was over , we got well
and truly mad,
And got in touch with folks we knew who
called the shots in Chad,
They guaranteed their workers would never ask for
perks,
Their deal came with bosses who
were former Belgium mercs.
We now believed our overhead was just too low to beat
'Cause even the WORLD'S poorest have
sometimes got to eat,
We thought below Chad's wages you would
have to be a slaver,
Alas, we had forgotten 'bout Andean prison labor.
Virtually Pay a Fun Visit to Beloved Wall Street
Michael Silverstein www.WallStreetPoet.com
Songs of Wall Street an Anthology of Verse ~ by
Michael Silverstein
available: www.Amazon.com
LaPaloma*The Dove*...I play it
on the accordion with my good friend Joe, after
all MUSIC is
a Universal Language to
share and Enjoy!
...along with a Smile ~