In parallel with the writers who were so important in spreading truth, (as Vijay Prashad is today), other truths are spread in many ways.
As a very young person looking through my father’s records I found three which have never left me. Sixty years on, not a month has gone by that I don’t listen to Leadbelly, Paul Robeson, and Miriam Makeba.
Makeba’s incredible voice softened the hard edges of people who would—and did—hate her for what she might have written. Just as Leadbelly’s voice (allegedly) freed him from a life sentence on Parchman Farm, and Robeson sang of things that would put him in jail then, and probably once again today. I believe in the power of art.
People often ask if there could be a Gazan Gandhi. We know the answer to that. And 200 Gazan Ruth First’s have been slaughtered in the past years. Others, like Richard Medhurst and Assange are being silenced. Is there a child there who could become a Gazan Miriam Makeba? Is that why they killed Hind Rajab?
Thank you for sharing this journalist’s so-important contribution to our collective freedom. As Simon Burke sang: “None of us are free if one of us is chained..”
In parallel with the writers who were so important in spreading truth, (as Vijay Prashad is today), other truths are spread in many ways.
As a very young person looking through my father’s records I found three which have never left me. Sixty years on, not a month has gone by that I don’t listen to Leadbelly, Paul Robeson, and Miriam Makeba.
Makeba’s incredible voice softened the hard edges of people who would—and did—hate her for what she might have written. Just as Leadbelly’s voice (allegedly) freed him from a life sentence on Parchman Farm, and Robeson sang of things that would put him in jail then, and probably once again today. I believe in the power of art.
People often ask if there could be a Gazan Gandhi. We know the answer to that. And 200 Gazan Ruth First’s have been slaughtered in the past years. Others, like Richard Medhurst and Assange are being silenced. Is there a child there who could become a Gazan Miriam Makeba? Is that why they killed Hind Rajab?
Thank you for sharing this journalist’s so-important contribution to our collective freedom. As Simon Burke sang: “None of us are free if one of us is chained..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkmRp_G2uo&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD