For the low-in-spirit 99 percenters

[grasswire]

The Low Road

What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..

They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can’t walk, can’t remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you can’t stop them doing.

How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion

Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.

Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.

Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.

It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.

- Marge Piercy

[Demo_Chris]

1. Rec!

[truedelphi]

2. Piercy would have loved the Community Rights movement.

By getting involved, you and I take our communities back, one locale at a time.

Google Paul Cinefuegos + youtube + community rights, if you wanna know more.

Already one hundred fifty communities have activists uniting to write local ordinances, that can shut down the Corporations that so ubiquitously want to come in and destroy their eco-sytem, haul off the water, frack until death sets in etc.