Lies they told us

Wondering when we got smarter
the lies falling flat
no longer believing
the lies they told us
the dream a nightmare
debt washing over us
drowning our daily lives
oppressed in dollars
as surely as they are
in the sins of the tyrants
reigning over them
in the lands in the Arab Spring
washing on these shores
the same cry for freedom
freedom evermore

October 7, 2011
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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