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=> A Lament for Vittorio

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Vittorio Arrigoni was a peace activist following the tradition of fighting Fascism - like his father before him in Italy - in Gaza for the dispossessed Palestinians incarcerated in what reasonable people render as the world's biggest open-air prison. Only weeks after the assassination of another peacemaker, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Vittorio was allegedly kidnapped by a group of Salafists and murdered when their demands were not met. This is a lament for Vittorio by Tawfiq Zayyad.

"Onadikom" ("I Call Upon You") for Vittorio Arrigoni
by Tawfiq Zayyad

My tragedy that I live
Is my share of your tragedies
I call upon you
I press your hands
I kiss the ground under your feet
And I say: 'I sacrifice myself for you'

I did not humiliate myself in my homeland
And I did not lower my shoulders
I stood facing my oppressors
Orphaned, naked and barefoot
I call on you...

I call on you
I press your hands
I kiss the ground under your feet
And I say: 'I sacrifice myself for you'

I carry my blood on my palm
I never lowered my flags
And I cared for the green grass
Over the graves of my ancestors

It's like 'Crazy Horse' by Trudell* in some ways
The same settler colonial nightmare

But the tribes will not go without return
Genetic light from the other side
A song from our heart of hearts to give
The wild days, the glory days live

Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
One earth, one mother
One does not sell the earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our Mother?
How do we sell the stars?
How do we sell the air?

Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
We are the Seventh Generation.

* John Trudell is an American Indian activist, poet, Native philosopher who was the eloquent spokesperson articulting the grievences of the Indian movement, from the takeover of Alcatraz in the late '60s to that of Wounded Knee in '73, when he was an official member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). His wife, childern and mother-in-law were killed in a case of arson shortly after he burned an American flag in protest.

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/vittorio-arrigoni-onadekom-calling-you.html

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