[P2P-F] Fwd: An amazing poem from Josh Healey for the Occupy Movement

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Subject: An amazing poem from Josh Healey for the Occupy Movement
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*Josh Healey is a member of the Tikkun Editorial Advisory Board of Tikkun
Magazine and he was selected to receive the Mario Savio Young Activist
Award. He deliverd this beautiful talk to the 7-10,000 people assembled at
Occupy Cal (University of California, Berkeley) on November 15th. *

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 “When Hope Comes Back”: A Poem for the 99
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On Tuesday night, I was out on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley, with over
10,000 people reclaiming the space for OccupyCal. I was there to receive
the Mario Savio Young Activist Award, which had been scheduled for the same
night across the plaza inside Pauley Ballroom. But with thousands of people
outside demanding free speech and equal education on the very same steps
that Mario Savio had once stood himself, the two events were beautifully
combined, and I was able to give my poem outside with the people, right
where it belonged.

Here’s some very rough video of the piece, along with the full text below.
Long live Occupy!

 *When Hope Comes Back* (A Poem for the 99%)  when Hope comes back he
will be more than a campaign slogan and a face on a poster faded red,
white, and blue he will not come from a presidential palace bought and
paid for like a Citibank stock option villa he will put not forget to
put on his walking shoes and join the picket lines in New York the
bread lines in Baltimore to shake the calloused hands of everyone
walking by when Hope comes back he might be named Barack but he won’t
be named Obama when Hope comes back he will be a Black Panther baby
who speaks Spanglish and cooks Korean tacos and does 180 sun
salutations to the soundtrack of Zion I - yes, Hope is hella Bay when
Hope comes back he will be a UFW farmworker who loves his fields and
his flag more than he hates his foreman he will be a runaway foster
child who forgives his parents he will be an Iraq war veteran who
returns to protest in Oakland again without tear gas canisters to his
head when Hope comes back he will come back from the future in a
DeLorean like Michael J. Fox and show us all the things we’d won like
people swimming across the Rio Grande for fun rather than survival and
the only student debt being to our livers rather than to our banks and
then Michael J would take us for a ride back to the past and show us
this is not our first occupation Flint, sit-down strikers in ’36
Alcatraz, American Indian Movement in ’69 Sproul Plaza, Free Speech
Movement in ’64 and every semester since then that was worth a damn
and reminded Berkeley what it means to be called Berkeley when Hope
comes back he will be one of my students East Asia meets East Oakland
brilliantly cross-continental even though he hates the ocean speaks
with the wisdom of Buddha and Mac Dre really, he is my teacher and I
think he knows it and we’re both ok with that when Hope comes back he
will actually be a she because hey, that’s who actually gets shit done
she will be a librarian by day, a DJ by night, an Occupy activist in
between she will be thick hair and thick hips and if you try to touch
either one you’ll get a thick hand to the face when Hope comes back
she’ll show us to burn down the banks in our hearts and love without
lust or profit or restraining orders when Hope comes back she will be
an OPD cop, then NYPD, then UCPD, refusing to follow orders putting
down their riot gear and picking up a picket sign cuz when the cops
join the 99% they actually belong to that’s when the banks will have
nowhere to hide when Hope comes back she will be a midwife in tune
with the moon and the womb an ancient healer who knows every herb in
the redwoods ready to help us birth a new world one without bombs or
borders or Michelle Bachman a planet of peoples free to honor the
earth and each other like the God in whose image we’re still trying to
evolve into when Hope comes back she will be here right here, right
now on the streets and plazas and parks of New York and DC Milwaukee
and Austin Portland and Nashville London and Manila and Cairo San
Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, CA with the people and the hashtags
setting up her tent in the morning paintings banners in the afternoon
attending ridiculously long meetings in the evening shutting down the
port of Oakland and reminding us all that yes, Hope still lives here
in America she has always lived here with us and now she is back
before our eyes marching head high, fist higher and whispering to the
millions amongst her, “Thank you. Thank you.  You’re bringing me back.
Take my hand, feel my pulse joined with yours. Trust my taste on your
tongue, my strength in your lungs, and let’s see how far we can go
together.”

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