http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKj5njkUhdg&feature=player_embeddedLast night at the offices of our Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, over a dozen starving college students (20 days now without eating), were arrested, along with former City Councilwoman and spiritual leader Maria Antonietta Berriozabal, and labor scholar and activist Dr. Antonia Castaneda.
I am frankly dismayed at the lack of courage from our political leadership -- where are they? Should I name names? (Congressmen Ciro Rodriguez and Charlie Gonzalez, Mayor Julian Castro).
But the political leaders want to win elections (though Congressman Rodriguez lost his due to his pandering for independents instead of hell-with-the-consequences truth-telling). So they wait, and they mollify, and they hope the tide will change. It's gonna get alot worse before it gets better, and no thanks to the ambitions of those who live for what they think matters, instead of getting on the train to destiny.
We need leaders. And so here they are. No fancy titles, status, or campaigns. Just women speaking truth to power.
I am proud to know both Maria Antonietta Berriozabal and Antonia Castaneda. I am proud of these students who are so desperate to get a degree and make this world a better place. I am proud they want to learn so much it hurts just to look at them. And so they will change the world, this I know.
The world is changing, and if the conservative forces out there don't want to see it, then we must talk to them and sometimes starve if that's what it takes to show them that we belong here, as much as their forefathers and mother wanted to come here, to these lands so long ago. These young people are the best we have, and to deny them is to deny our greatest beauty, and the truth that we were meant to be here here together.
I am frankly dismayed at the lack of courage from our political leadership -- where are they? Should I name names? (Congressmen Ciro Rodriguez and Charlie Gonzalez, Mayor Julian Castro).
But the political leaders want to win elections (though Congressman Rodriguez lost his due to his pandering for independents instead of hell-with-the-consequences truth-telling). So they wait, and they mollify, and they hope the tide will change. It's gonna get alot worse before it gets better, and no thanks to the ambitions of those who live for what they think matters, instead of getting on the train to destiny.
We need leaders. And so here they are. No fancy titles, status, or campaigns. Just women speaking truth to power.
I am proud to know both Maria Antonietta Berriozabal and Antonia Castaneda. I am proud of these students who are so desperate to get a degree and make this world a better place. I am proud they want to learn so much it hurts just to look at them. And so they will change the world, this I know.
The world is changing, and if the conservative forces out there don't want to see it, then we must talk to them and sometimes starve if that's what it takes to show them that we belong here, as much as their forefathers and mother wanted to come here, to these lands so long ago. These young people are the best we have, and to deny them is to deny our greatest beauty, and the truth that we were meant to be here here together.
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