Why We Are Here
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Whether or not you are in Washington, DC this weekend for the World Bank to-do or not, you may find the following of interest. It is from an anonymous poet of Washington State, and was handed out during the Seattle World Trade Organization meeting:
WHY WE ARE HERE
- Because the world we had imagined, the one we had always counted on is disappearing.
- Because the sun has become cancerous and the planet is getting hotter.
- Because children are starving in the shadows of yachts and economic summits.
- Because there are already too many planes in the sky.
This is the manufactured world you seek to codify and expedite.
We are here to tell you there is something else we want to buy
What we want, money no longer recognizes like the vitality of nature, the integrity of work.
We don't want cheaper wood, we want living trees.
We don't want engineered fruit, we want to see and smell the food growing in our own neighborhoods.
We are here because a voice inside us, a memory in our blood, tells us you are not just a bank, or a fund; you have become the blind tip of a dark wave which has forgotten its source.
We are here to defend and honor what is real, natural, human and basic against these rising tides of greed.
We are here by the insistence of spirit and by the authority of nature.
If you doubt for one minute the power of truth or the primacy of nature try not breathing for that length of time.
Now you know the pressure of our desire.
We are not here to tinker with your laws.
We are here to change you, and ourselves, from the inside out.
This is not a political protest.
It is an uprising of the soul.