For Lahore, Badami Bagh, and Joseph Colony

For Lahore, Badami Bagh, and Joseph Colony : 

"Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace" by All Angels 

on audio, not video, just click link, no download:  

http://prostopleer.com/tracks/4773626WtaW

God Bless and Peace.

I Am Kashmir

© Majid Pandit 

I Am Kashmir 

Dedicated to Shaheed Tahir from Baramulla

AUDIO HERE

a
rat
a
tat
tat

ya hear that?

another round
locked, and loaded

where boys,
are forced to be
men

and women
are raped

and children,
throw
stones

until a bullet hits the skin
piercing within
the gentle flesh that God made

My skin is worn
my heart,
heavy
and my mind,
must constantly evade
the darkness

Yet I am light
and my spirit

it IS strong

it flies with the midnight moon
chasing stars
supernovas
faster than the speed of light
stronger than the wind
more powerful than the sun herself
shining

celestial majestic divinity . . .

Aged.

I am

Kashmir.


© Susan Marie 2013


* CNN yanked this off of my professional media profile today. This young man, Shaheed Tahir died in Indian occupied Kashmir this week.

 

Quietly, dying

"The world is a prison for the believer .  .  . " - pbuh


There are times
i awake
and the day
she greets me
naked
pure

In all her wondrous glory

And i am grateful
for solitary breath
for limbs
that work perfectly
for the sun
when she shines
rain as it falls
and for birds, 

endlessly trilling
outside my window

And there are times
when i simply wish
to close my eyes
to sleep eternal

A most peaceful rest,
one of absolute divinity
where i need not think,
eat, nor breathe

An existence
where i am truly one
with all of creation

Where I am more than energy
more than the speed of light
stronger than the sun
wind
moon
and the stars

as they shine their weary smiles
upon me now.

Gently.


I wish to be the Great Frontier
its grasslands plenty
horses, wild, free
trees, untouched by man

My spirit,
the heartbeat
of wild buffalo

This place exists
in my heart
and I am
a sentient being

Human. 

Quietly,

dying.


© Susan Marie 2013 

Meet & Greet Sergio Rodriguez Candidate for Mayor of Buffalo

Meet & Greet Sergio Rodriguez Candidate for Mayor of Buffalo

Saturday, February 23, 2013 4pm - 6pm

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Birth of a Poem

First Published: 

We Speak News [India] 

The News Tribe [Pakistan]

1 Billion Rising

One billion women and those who love them are invited to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. 

Show the world our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.

What does ONE BILLION look like? 

On February 14, 2013, it will look like a REVOLUTION.

ONE BILLION RISING IS:

• A global strike
• An invitation to dance
• A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends
• An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers
• A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given
• A new time and a new way of being

  
--> Watch a rising on LiveStream
--> Check out the Media Toolkit
--> FAQ's about ONE BILLION RISING
--> Start/Join/Add event to Global Map

  

Buffalo, New York:

Join this sacred and empowering event on Elmwood with Buffalo's finest in front of Globe Market at 5pm today, February 14, 2013. 

EVENT PAGE HERE

DIRECTIONS

Document your event by photo, video, social media. 

Twitter: use hashtag -->  #1BillionRising

V-Day on Twitter --> HERE

Facebook: 1 Billion Rising

Google+:  1 Billion Rising Event Page

For more information --> 1 Billion Rising, Buffalo, NY

* * * 

Also check out: 

Be My Valentine: 1 BILLION RISING 

by Lalita Raman

 * * * 

How will YOU Rise? 

--> V-Day.Org

 

© ONE BILLION RISING Information Copyright 1 Billion Rising. All rights reserved. 2013

Video produced by Eve Ensler and V-Day, directed by Tony Stroebel, written and produced by Tena Clark with music by Tena Clark and Tim Heintz, and featuring dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen.

 

"Missing our American Reality" by MC Vendetta

"We're trying to live the American Dream, while we are missing our American Reality." 

- MC Vendetta

In response to the question, "How did Americans get so stupid?" - MC answered: 

"Americans became so stupid because we continuously cut funding for public schools and teacher salaries while upping standardized testing which doesn't effectively teach kids ANYTHING, evaluating teachers on their teaching abilities with the scores that absent students, disabled students and students who don't speak the language get on the tests, cut funding for family planning and sexual education so more and more people who are not prepared or educated enough to have and raise children properly are having and raising children improperly, and then simultaneously distancing people from their food supplies so that people have no idea what they are eating or where it comes from.

 

When you don't even bother to think about your food it makes it easier to sit on your couch instead of getting out and interacting with society...which is the main reason that it is so easy for "the government" to control us. 

 

They have used targeted advertising to convince us that we need to move away from black people and immigrants and "those who aren't real Americans" to a gigantic house in the suburbs with a chemically treated perfect lawn (never mind that those chemicals are leeching into our water supply, poisoning us and giving us, our kids and even our fucking dogs cancer and birth defects), where you have to have a perfect body and an expensive car in order to consider what you're living to be a "successful" life....convincing anyone who can't afford any of those things that they are unworthy, unattractive, unsuccessful and therefore...a loser...

 

So people get depressed, they eat shitty food and sit on their couches and dream of things they don't even really need while totally missing the things that they already DO have...like heat and hot water. Ungrateful or even just completely unaware of all the blessings they have of simply being alive on this amazingly beautiful and miraculous planet called Earth. 

 

We've simultaneously bred ourselves to become spoiled and ignorant and impatient all at the same time and it's getting more and more evident every single day."

 

"We're trying to live the American Dream, while we are missing our American Reality." 

- MC Vendetta

 

 

 

Initiative to Aid Andrea Johnson with Melissa Lussier

On Friday, December 28, an apartment complex in Minneapolis completely burned to the ground. The Star Tribune reported the story -> here.

Melissa Lussier, singer, songwriter and artist of Buffalo, NY alerted me to her initiative in regards to helping Andrea Johnson, one of the residents of the complex who lost everything.

Melissa is sending a care package to Andrea. Melissa states: "Andrea has been given many essential items such as furniture and kitchen supplies, but my idea is to send her a care basket with all those personal touches that make a house a home. I was thinking paintings, jewelry, soaps and bubble bath and other items that pamper, and if they're hand-made, all the better!" 

The Facebook Fundraiser Page is --> here. 

Please contact Melissa if you are able to donate any item to the package she wishes to send to Andrea and also, for more information at her --> Facebook Profile.

© Photos Star Tribune 

Join the Global Vigil for Peace for Pakistan and India

This event, initiated by an Aman ki Asha supporter in New Delhi, invites Indians and Pakistanis and those who want peace between the two countries, to come together in their respective cities. The purpose of the vigils is to urge the governments to continue the dialogue, and not give in to the war hype being created by some sections of sections of society. 

Aman ki Asha means  "Hope for Peace" 

---> The Facebook Event

Below are my photos from Buffalo, NY 

Peace.

                                                                         

Don't Compare Obama with MLK

by Henry Louis Taylor

First published: 

CNN

WKBW

News Tribe

WNY Media
International Organizations Desk
WGRZ

Some people will be tempted to compare Martin Luther King, Jr. with President Obama.

Don’t. 

Obama is no Martin Luther King, Jr. 

He is a politician, a liberal with moderate leanings. Like all politicians, he operates within a world of limited possibilities. His mission is to make the USA a better place, while serving the interest of the rich and powerful.

Martin Luther King, Jr., on the flip side, was a radical democrat. 

He gave his life trying to build a better world, a “good society” anchored by racial equity, participatory democracy and social, environmental and economic justice. 

King was concerned about group advancement—not just individual achievement. 

As a politician, Obama’s rise to the top of his profession, and becoming president of the United States, is a wonderful story of individual achievement. It is a story that also reflects the growing liberalization of the United States. 

But individual success stories do not CHANGE the realities of Black Americans. 

King understood this. So, he was never got sidetracked by one’s individual accomplishments. He was happy for them. But his big interest was the radical transformation of American society, so that all USA residents, especially blacks and Latinos, could live a good life. 

King did not stop there. His dream was not just an American dream. His dream was a worldwide dream. MLK said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” 

Most importantly, He understood that the “freedom fight” was a fight for the “larger freedom.” 

By “larger freedom,” I mean the battle for real heath care, good, affordable housing, great schools and neighborhoods, no prison pipelines, and places where everybody can realize their full human potential and can optimize their life outcomes.

And not just here, but everywhere, regardless of the political system under which they live. A world where societies are judge by “how well the children are doing,” and not by “how open are the economic markets.”

King knew that the “smaller freedoms” — the right to vote, eat at any lunch counter, say what you want, and live anywhere– was just “one, small step” toward the “larger freedom.”

This is NOT Obama’s dream. I’m sorry, but it is true. 

Obama is not a freedom fighter. He is a politician, who runs the country in the interest of the elites, while trying to do some good on the side and on the sly.

I’m just saying, celebrate Obama for who he is and don’t try to make him something else.

Peace