Pour que les fabricants
De Guantanamo
Apprennent
A défabriquer
Guantanamo
Toujours Guantanamo
Toujours maîtriser tout
Toujours maîtriser le futur
Maîtriser
l’espace, le temps, le passé, le présent,
la parole
en somme, ces liquidateurs de l’humanité
pourfendeurs déguisés
de la terreur
s’acharnent à
Read more on Guantanamo(2) by Jacques Depelchin…
Qui aurait pu penser
Que tu deviendrais une des anti-chambres
De la mort de l’humanité
Destination de gens
Enchaînés, déclarés
Biens meubles
Plate-forme de lancement
Projet Manhattan
Pour mettre fin à jamais
Au vagabondage de celles/ceux
Prenant abolition pour liberté
Read more on OH GUANTANAMO (1) Per Jacques Depelchin…
The Mogadishu poets’ club seldom meets these days. Sugaal Abdulle Omar is one of only a handful of survivors who have stayed on in the Somali capital despite what has become of the once beautiful coastal city. “The poet is always trying to talk about peace,” he says. “But there is nowhere to talk about peace here and no one who wants to listen.”
A call to foes
who plug their ears hoping
not to hear their conscience’s call
for fidelity
solidarity
with Haiti
A call to friends
Wringing their hands
Waiting to follow the brave
Sufficiently outraged
To risk everything
To make humanity
one
healed
in Haiti
The weakness of the heart is holly…
Ah! You think that I never loved her
My Negress fair with palmoil, slender as a plume
Thighs of a starlet otter, of Kilimanjaro snow
Read more on Noliwe By Leopold Sedar Senghor…
A poem linking Israel’s December 2008 to January 2009 siege of Gaza to Haiti.
First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere,
There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians
Then their land became known as Hispaniola,
As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel
Of French overseas possessions
Thanks to Africans kidnapped, chained, shipped
Processed, codified, stamped as property
While always knowing they belonged
To no one but humanity
And through fidelity to humanity
Turned Saint Domingue into Haiti
Fraternity, equality and liberty
Their only motto
Read more on Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin…
Written by Rene Wadlow
In the heated fallout from the from the speech of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN review of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on 20 April 2009, our Association of World Citizens’ Facebook Officer, Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, was insulted and verbally attacked by a member of the Iranian delegation walking with Ahmadinejad to a press conference on the ground floor of the UN building in Geneva, the Palais des Nations. The Iranian official called out to Wiesel and some 400 protestors who were blocking the entrance to the Press conference room “Zio-Nazis” meaning Zionist-Nazi.
Read more on The UN Review of the Programme of Action on Racism and Xenophobia…
