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The recent action
of our Dyett brother and sister hunger strikers calls us unified action. Justice
is coming, and I plan to help it along in any way I can. I am calling for a
Labor Day 2016 action in Washington DC on the Mall.
" That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." ~ (1776) The Declaration of
Independence
These are the
sacred words of a free people that I am claim upon the blood sacrifices of
countless generations of Americans who came before us. These words holding the
aspirations of a free people that Dr. Yohuru Williams often reminds us,
These words
Of minute men long
gone,
Slaves yearning to
be free,
Women struggling
for the vote,
Immigrants
following a Lamp in that harbor of hope,
By crossing that
sacred bridge in Selma,
By the voices of
today youth carrying Black Lives Matter signs,
By SOSers in 2011,
By Opt outers
occupying the United States Department of Education in 2012 and 2013
By BATs marching
on DC in 2014, and again in 2015,
By my Dyett
brothers and sisters on hunger strike in Chicago in August of 2015.
With those scared words passed down from generations past I call a free people to action
everyday. By those words I call all to DC Labor Day 2016. No mater plan, no
permits, no podiums with speakers, no marching bands to announce our coming,
just a free people walking together carrying their signs for justice, letting
our silence thunder, joining and embracing our free brothers and sisters on the
Great Mall.
Dr. Naison Black History and Labor historian reminds us that silence can speak
louder than thunder. He point us to the historic 1917 when silence spoke louder
than thunder.
“They marched down Fifth Avenue on that summer
Saturday without saying a word. They chanted no chants, sang no protest songs.
The only sounds were the disconcertingly mournful thuds of muffled drums — and,
of course, the marchers’ footsteps on the hot pavement.”
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/a-history-of-making-messages-heard-silently/?_r=0
No one owns this
action, just as no one owns a free people. Understanding a free people must
seek justice, or their freedom shall turn become their bondage.
Ask me where I'll
be Labor Day 2016?
You shall find
this walking man hold his No Justice No Votes sign.
If I sand alone than I stand one man alone.
But if by chance I stand with one other than surely justice has a chance.
I am calling every
student, every parent, every teacher, every principal, every grass roots anti
high stakes testing group beaten down by the injustice to stand and march in
silence against these destructive education policies that reduce our children
to proficiency levels, that demoralize our teachers, and take the right to vote
for elected boards of education, abandon and neglect special needs and second
language learners over and over again, and close our poorest and most needy
schools.
I am compelled to
insubordination by justice
My eyes are wide
open,
My hearts is true,
Justice is coming,
and I plan on making sure it comes.
Come join me next
Labor Day for a No Justice No Votes silence protest in DC,
