Open Letter to those aware in the West
I wish Egypt ... Omar Barghouti
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Translation Rebellion Oliván
Loles
Egypt ... I wish I wish
capacity to resist, for you to fight for social justice and economic justice, that you should gain your true freedom and equal rights. I wish
willingness and ability to go out of your prison walls so carefully camouflaged. Look, in our part of the world, the prison walls and massive gates inviolable are too manifest, obvious, overwhelming, suffocating, so we restless, rebellious, angry residents, always ready for our day of freedom, of light, when we collect a critical mass of people power enough to cross all red lines hitherto unbreakable. That's when we can break the thick, cold and hateful rusted chains that have imprisoned our minds and bodies for life as the pungent stench of a rotting corpse in the claustrophobic cell of our prison.
your prison cells, however, are very different. The walls are well hidden lest you conjure up the will to resist. There is no door in the cells of your prison: can equipment moves "freely" without you recognize ever more in prison inmates who follow. I wish
Egypt so that you can colonize your mind, because only then you can imagine true freedom, true justice, true equality and true dignity. I wish
Egypt so you can shred the ballot multiple choice question: "What do you want?" Because all the answers you get are bad. There seems to be your only choice between evil and lesser evil. I wish
Egypt so that you, as the Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans, Bahrainis, Yemenis, and certainly the Palestinians, shouting: "No! We do not want to choose the least bad answer. We want another option that is not on your damn list. " If given a choice between slavery and death, we unequivocally opted for freedom and a dignified life not slavery and death. I wish
Egypt so you can collective, democratic, and responsible to rebuild your societies, so that you return the laws to which they are to serve the people, not capital Wild and his army of banks, so that acabéis with racism and all discrimination, for you to look after and you are in harmony with the environment, so that recortéis wars and war crimes and no jobs, social benefits and public services for education and invirtáis health, not fossil fuels or weapons research, so that the government derroquéis tyrant and oppressor of the multinationals, and to carry forth the hell out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and everywhere under the pretext of "spreading democracy" your-righteous crusaders have spread social and cultural disintegration, and abject poverty utter hopelessness. I wish
Egypt so that you can rekindle the spirit of the South African struggle against apartheid by Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights by adopting [the campaign] Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) claimed by an overwhelming majority of Palestinian civil society. No other non-violent and most effective way for Israel end the occupation, racial discrimination and decades of denial of the right of return of refugees sanctioned by the UN. I wish
Egypt so you can meet the legal and moral obligations of your country helping to rebuild raped and des-developed economies and societies of your current or former-colonies, for their young to find their own country viable, livable and kind of new, rather than risk death at sea, or worse, to get to the mirage of your costs by giving up their loved ones and a place they once called home. You see, they are "here" because ye were "there" ... and we all know what you did there ...
Our oppression and yours are deeply intertwined and interlinked, this is not a zero sum game. Our collective fight for universal rights and freedoms is not just a slogan to raise self-gratifying, but a real struggle for emancipation and self-determination, an idea whose time has arrived noisily.
After Egypt, it is up to us. It is the hour of liberation and justice for Palestine. It is time for all the peoples of this world, particularly the most exploited and oppressed, we reaffirm our common humanity and regain control over our destiny. I wish
Egypt ...
* Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian, is human rights activist, former resident of Egypt, and author of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS): The global struggle for Palestinian rights (Haymarket, 2011)
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Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti03232011.html
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