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https://amp.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/12/multiple-bands-pull-out-of-download-festival-over-barclays-israel-ties

A message to PALESTINE ACTION and ALL THE YOUNG BANDS resisting BARCLAYS BANK'S COLLUSION IN THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE

Here is a poem I wrote to Americans in 2004.
“Why Cannot The Good Prevail”

AMERICA 2004

Why cannot the good prevail?
Here in America there is at heart
A people, just and true,

Open, sometimes to the point of ridicule.
Good neighbors to rebuild the barn,
The doctor’s note of western legend
Carried forth beyond the grave
I knew your Pa, enough.

In caucuses across the land
Deliberate they’ll always stand,
Defenders of the Rosenburgs.
Symbolic of that yearning
To be better than before.

They never will give up their brother
To the grocer’s cold machine

Belt welts livid from the strong arm of the law.

On campuses,
In boardrooms,
Over giving thanks

And pumpkin pie,

On hustings, in committee rooms,
Whenever tyrants loomed,
We always held in our esteem
The ones who hold on to the dream,

Unflinching,
While the bullies
Pose and fiddle on the hill.

Has commerce so reduced the free,

That,

Blinded like a tot

Contaminated by the dog s**t in the grass,
We blunder, slaves to humbug, and this Texan

dynasty.
No!

Beyond the grip of trade

The young strain beautiful and proud,
The hoar frost breath of new blood

Needs but nudges from
The old forgotten guard
To scale the moral high grounds

In the clouds.

YOU ARE THE YOUNG ONES STANDING BEAUTIFUL AND PROUD
I AM ONE OF THE OLD GUARD, I SALUTE YOU.
LOVE
R ✊🏼🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🕊