“As
of now I am preparing proposals to amend the Human Rights Activities within the
human right responsibility that affects us all.”
“As this day dawns we are out in the
warmth of the moment comforted by the rhythms of the atmosphere the season and
the weather that brings us here. Then
the question now becomes what have we come here for and what is it that we want
to hear? After we have heard all what they have said and all they had to
tell. Then what is the difference from
what we will speak and this movement of what we proclaim today?
I will bring you this question like this life has
brought me. As a human being I like you
was also brought up in circumstances important to my life and my
upbringing. The people with and around
me, all their influences and the places where I have been, and have lived
during those days were shaping me. The
circumstances I found myself in was later to create and push and pull giving birth
and forming the life that has brought about the man of today. I bring you the same question that this life
brings me what are we doing here today and what have we come here to hear?
It is time my friends, my fellows this period we live is asking us for us
to describe it like many have done by their actions and by their words. It is asking for us to name it, to shape it
as some have tried to cultivate or nurture.
-Then who is doing the sowing and how
much are we reaping?
-While they are cultivating the soil of
our age who is responsible for the harvest,
I ask of you who?
Let us pay attention to the direction of this wretched earth and ask ourselves again have we made any one being responsible? Some will say those in power, others will chant that those without the means of gain are the void. But what is power, and how can we control it? How much of this do we really know and how much can we contain? Shifting the blame like others have done have brought about unforgiving consequences. Let us then together grab what we can with what has been given to us and use it for the betterment of those like yourself in order to create the mends for the greater good of man.
If this is the revolution, the revolution, then move
it now?! If not then forget it and put
it aside! There is no point in us taking part in something that we don’t
actively believe and that we cannot stretch ourselves for and lay our lives
for. There is no point in us
worshipping the ideals and giving our ear to the desires of another if we have
not even respected of fully justified the identity of our own. Otherwise that would be stealing or
borrowing plagiarizing so to speak and in the end it may even be misleading.
If this is the revolution then I say to all it has
started?! If not then please let it begin.
Let us start it.”
When many gathered, and spoke.
The roots of this change we are seeking
always need to be seen in light of what brought it coming. '2003 for '98.
Posted at the Indymedia UK, and London on July eleventh 2003
Words from -Ripe for a Revolution- C.W