Loosing the Winds of Freedom

Not just in the foreign lands
in the Maghreb, Arabia
the people bound, oppressed
all across the nations
the world smaller
loosing the winds of freedom
all manner of division
coming alive this season
the winds moving
across the whole world
fairness, freedom
justice the rallying cry
Martyrs and protest
people in the streets
unsure where it will lead
not knowing where it will end

October 7, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-wallstreet-protests-history-idUSTRE7964CY20111007
Wall Street protests
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Their Blood on Our Hands – part 1

Turning our blind eyes
away from the crisis
the murder of the peoples
mercenaries and martyrs

Their blood on our hands
because we fail to act
empty rhetoric of diplomacy
when they are dying in the street

What will history say
the mass graves of the martyrs
when the world stood by
as they were slaughtered in the streets

Giving them over
letting them fight by themselves
claiming the rights to be free
yet leaving them to die alone


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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