We Are Action
Solidarity with the Hunger Strikers
Inspired by ‘I am Action’ by Praxedis Guerrero. I am posting this piece in solidarity with the Palestinian solidarity hunger strikers, who are being left to die in British prisons by the Labour government. They have been imprisoned without trial, subjected to horrible prison conditions, and are treated as terrorists despite not being charged with such offenses, and being incarcerated before Palestine Action was proscribed.
Without us, the grand theories of progress and liberation would be a few wet matches in a moldy matchbox.
Without us, fires will rage in the homes of the occupied, and the engines of the war machine will be the roaring hearts of the many-headed hydra, its arm factories untouched, its profits undisturbed, its supply lines unsevered.
Without us, the home of the human majority will be the gutter or the refugee camp.
Without us, the stars and suns will be blocked out by the oppressive smog of the polluters and the dust of razed buildings.
Without us, the ideas of Habash, Kanafani, Sadaat, Al Araj, Khaled would remain dreams, the hopes of al-Nabulsi unfulfilled, the work started by al-Qassam left incomplete.
Without us, the rebellion of conscience would be a cloud of smoke trapped in a nutshell, and the desire for freedom the useless flapping of the wings of an enchained, imprisoned eagle. Our rebels of conscience will rot in their prisons, and the detained & incarcerated in Palestine will be forever beaten and abused and murdered.
Without us, all aspirations and ideals would spin in the minds of people like fallen leaves swirled by the north wind.
We are a plurality of tactics, the movement of many small parts, the curling of fingers on a hand to make a fist. We are the reunification, the re-bonding of atoms under pressure to make the hardest substance on earth: solidarity.
Freedom, Justice and Return are impossible without us.
We are Action.