Keep THE DREAM Alive!

For those who feel solidarity with the Fifteen Million Undocumented Workers in the US and share their DREAM for a LAND OF OPPORTUNITY in AMERICA, a one-day Economic Boycott of Retail Corporate America is taking place on Monday, May 1, 2006.
The intent of the boycott is to demonstrate the economic strength of the undocumented workers amongst us...and to rally behind their aspirations for eventual US citizenship, as well as to rally for their human rights.

I will join those undocumented workers who will

BOYCOTT RETAIL CORPORATE AMERICA

on MONDAY, MAY I.


IMMIGRANTS KEEP OUR AMERICAN DREAM ALIVE!

A Demi-Monde of sorts...a byway of SPIRIT

Disappearing into the Demi-Monde is my wont*... ...*inclination

Loving the fog-imbued heir to all whose shapes change

in the soft-toned, wonder-filled cumulous

Of nighttimes lived in 'eonic' stretches between shades of matrilineal enrapturemant (if not internment)...

amidst the gradual dawning that

This Condition- mine and yours- though wondrous to behold...

Our Humanity...is, by observation, quite delicate and frail.

How Can You Own A Dream?

"THE AMERICAN DREAM
LIVES IN THE ASPIRATIONS OF HER MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS...

THE DREAM IS NEVER OWNED-
ONLY SHARED..."

from C. Despres, POSTCARD WRITINGS (Bai Virbaiji Press, Mumbai 2005)

Who Could Forget?

Why has the institutionalized lawbreaking of this Administration proven to be so intractable?

With the Administration foundering in the polls, why has the elected, "loyal opposition" remained so docile?

Why are we not examining the root causes of terrorism, examining the nature of the crucible in which terrorism germinates and flourishes?

Why are we failing to grasp some of the economic dynamics involved?

What ever happened to respect for human rights and the welfare of the GLOBAL COMMUNITY?

Why has the United States Executive chosen to undermine the authority and autonomy of the United Nations?

9/11 provided "justification" for indiscriminate retaliation, destruction, and occupation...and scant reflection.

After all, the 9/11 "attack" on the twin towers did not take place in a vacuum.

The United States has maintained an oil-securing presence in the Middle East for my whole life.

In 1956, when I was eleven, there was a General Strike in Karachi, Pakistan at the height of the SUEZ CRISIS.

American MAG Jets bombed the Baluchistan Mountains bordering Afghanistan, across the Sind Desert, in "training missions" clearly meant to be visible to the people living in Karachi.

I know this, because I witnessed the bombing from our verandah every evening in the post-SUEZ, Karachi autumn of 1956.

I will never forget.