31 May 2011

To Live and Be Revolution(ary)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011



In a Facebook Note titled "The Future", former college professor and staunch activist, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes (in part):



“Some thought the revolution was around the corner, certainly "in our lifetime" (although many of the same people who thought that believed they would be killed before turning 30). Others, cooler heads, thought it would take a little longer, a generation, maybe two.



“The authentic revolutionary, or so we thought of ourselves, had no time cap, as long as it takes, by any means necessary…[r]evolution, the struggle itself, was a way of life, not an event…we were all washed up at the base of a vast, impenetrable wall, the past erased, the future right there, against that wall, the ruins of our present, trying to jump-start the past. . . .What now?”

02 May 2011

A Woman Worrying (Too Much)…2May2011



I’m worried…

I’m worried about all the celebrations taking place on the streets that one lone man, dubbed as a terrorist, has power of distracting us from all the other shit going on in our lives…shit like having money to feed our families…making ends meet to pay our rent and mortgages…having health care that we can afford and that is practiced in a most compassionate and equitable manner…shit like maybe we won’t get to see our kids go to college because the cost is beyond our means, which could mean that this cycle of poverty, inequality, injustice…could repeat itself as it has thus far. That’s a lot of shit to be concerned about; it’s only a microcosm of shit on our minds and on our plates, and yet we have been sucked into a media vacuum of coverage about one thing and one thing only, the alleged death of Osama bin Laden: how it happened, when it happened, where it happened…not a whisper about whether or not the troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be able to pack it up, call it a day, and brought home to their worried families and loved ones.