In the Sands, the Street

In the halls of power,
in the stirrings of the people
in the sands, the Street
in the troubled nations
Revolution, protest
by their (our) own people
rallying in anger
wanting to be free
The same spirit moving
hope in their marching
in gathering together
one candle feeding another
Work to be done
to marshal the forces
the groundswell sweeping
across the sands of time
ripples forming
joining together
a wave which will change
the face of this earth
The sameness self-evident
yet the masters not believing
the same tide sweeping
onto these shores
Awake, the people
the same tide rising
justice will come
love for the whole world
the fight for the souls
the heart of this nation
as surely as the fight
in the oilfields,
the sands far way

October 8, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150827660505618&set=a.10150831905990618.729342.814330617&type=3&theater
parallels to the Arab Spring form of protest
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-wallstreet-protests-history-idUSTRE7964CY20111007
Wall Street protests
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/occupied-wall-street-seen-from-abroad.html
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March 17, 2011
calling on President Obama and the world
to act in the Middle East, especially in Libya and Bahrain,
to stand with the people
yearning to breathe free
and not worrying about the results,
that it is always right to stand for basic human rights
&
on the transformations since the beginning of January -
all the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Oman,
Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, etc.

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