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Guantanamo(2) by Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:03:44 +0000

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

OH GUANTANAMO (1) Per Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:19:38 +0000

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

Somalia’s last poets sing of a country on the brink

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:39:02 +0000

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."

Haiti, Aristide, Fanmi Lavalass: Being a call to reclaim history, humanity, Africa, the commons By Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:49:41 +0000

www.otabenga.org

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

Noliwe By Leopold Sedar Senghor

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:03:16 +0000

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

Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:56:02 +0000

www.otabenga.org

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

The UN Review of the Programme of Action on Racism and Xenophobia

Kimpavitapress — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:25:39 +0000

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.