In the name of love...

...what more, in the name of love!

Vorrei solo ricordare a tutta la comunity che oggi, 40 anni fa, uno dei piu´ grandi "guerrieri della luce" cadeva sotto i colpi di fucile esplosi dall´odio, dall´imperialismo, dalla CIA...

Rest in peeace, we´ ll never forget you, and we still have a dream...
(in loving memory of the reverend Martin Luther King)

Martin, your dream is almost coming true:

Speriamo che questa volta l´America, for its own sake, abbia finalmente il coraggio di cambiare, di guardarsi dentro e cominciare l´enorme lavoro necessario perche´ quel paese possa fregiarsi, senza che suoni ridicolo, del titolo di "Land of the free"!
La liberta´ e´ vera liberta´ solo quando tutti possono accedervi, e se oggi, grazie al lavoro fatto nel passato da uomini come Martin Luther King, non esistono discriminazioni "sancite per legge", nella realta´ dei fatti tantissimo e´ ancora da fare perche´ si realizzi una democrazia delle "pari opportunita´", negli USA ma non solo...
E voglio, DEVO sperare che...Yes, We Can!!!

Ps. Guardate il video, poi guardate gli spot elettorali (Presidente siamo con te + I´m PD) degli schiaramenti italiani e...iniziate a piangere!!!

Double Trouble, grazie per averci ricordato di questa data e mi unisco alla tua speranza che stavolta, per il bene non solo degli americani qualcosa possa davvero cambiare. Il mondo intero ne ha bisogno.


Martina, grazie per il video.

Grazie per questo "promemoria".

Davvero prezioso.

Ho trovato le parole del famoso discorso di Obama che i Black Eyed Peas hanno usato per il loro ancora più famoso video. Le pubblico perché secondo me vale la pena leggerle, oltre che ascoltarle:

It was a creed
written into the founding documents
that declared the destiny of a nation, YES WE CAN.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists
as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

Yes we can. Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants
as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers
who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized,
women who reached for the ballot,
a President who chose the moon as our new frontier,
and a King who took us to the mountain-top
and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality.

Yes we can.

Yes we can to opportunity and to prosperity.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.

Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.

We know the battle ahead will be long,
but always remember
that no matter what obstacles stand in our way,
nothing can stand
in the way
of the power of millions
of voices calling for change.

We want change!
We have been told we cannot do this
by a chorus of cynics
who will only grow louder
and more dissonant.
We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check
we’ve been
warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is America,
there has never been anything false about hope.

The hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon
are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA.

We will remember that there is something happening in America…
that we are not as divided as our politics suggest…
that we are one people, we are one nation…
and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast…
from sea to shining sea…
Yes. We. Can.