A call for Civil Disobedience

[Valkyrie]

www.commondreams.org/views02/1030-03.htm

(Edited by Paris at 4:41 am on Nov. 2, 2002)

[peaccenicked]

I posted this in the literature forum.

Civil disobedience

The was 400,000 in London there
16,000 in Glasgow fair
And once again the pope says ''No''
The Dalai llama says'' Please dont go''

Nelson Mandela and our STUC
Even the CIA say Bush is wrong
Most Americans want the UN
Most Britons say ''Amen''

In every town, in every place
People have joined the human race
Telling Bush we know the score
We dont want your bloody war

Iraqi children traumatised
Iran is next to be brutalised
With a barrage of lies from Tony Blair
Intimidating those who care

We shall not stand for this offence
We shall not sit upon the fence.
The loudest words that now make sense
are CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.




Paul Foot is definitely not alone.

[Valkyrie]

YEah! Excellent Peacenicked. And it works too, if people only knew.

[peaccenicked]

The more I think about it is about confidence.
The biggest examples were civil disobedience has been used,are in civil rights struggle in the US , anti apartheid independence for India and the poll tax struggle in the UK.

(Edited by peaccenicked at 4:16 am on Nov. 4, 2002)

[IHP]

Have you ever heard about the march over the bridge conducted by african-americans lead by the great MLK Jr. They marched to Montgomery successfully the third time, but the first two times they were met by police brutality. when i saw the video on that, i had a whole new respect for Martin Luther King after that act of "civil disobedience"

--IHP