POEM FOR THANKSGIVING; a few other announcements

[RCYB(Seattle) .]

Laal salaam / Red greetings!

 

in this e-mail:

1) "Thanksgiving Prayer" poem by William S. Burroughs

2) World Can't Wait: outreach, meeting, postering

3) Now available: purchase mail subscription to "Revolution" newspaper online

 

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The poem below was written in 1986 by William S. Burroughs, one of the great Beat poets of the 50s along with Ginsburg & Kerouac.  He wasn't a communist, but this poem is a great tribute to the genocide & hypocrisy this country is founded on.

 

By the way... Despite its rotten historical essence, we're not encouraging you to "boycott" Thanksgiving -- on the contrary, please not only have fun with your families & friends, but also engage them in political conversation, bring up the issues of driving out the Bush regime, making revolution, how to get to a world where societies are not founded on genocide, but the opposite: a mutual flourishing of people to overcome all forms of exploitation & oppression.  How to get to a point where the masses will really have something to be thankful for, & they will be thanking themselves.

 

Anyway here you go (also, you can listen to the author read it aloud here - http://mywebpages.comcast.net/fgirellicarasi/thanksgivingprayer.mp3  ):

 

 

THANKSGIVING PRAYER
 

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind the own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the memories -- all right let's see your arms!

You always were a headache and you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

 

 

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2)

The RCYB encourages you to hook up with WCW ... contact sea...@worldcantwait.org ... visit http://worldcantwait.org for more info ...

 

THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!

 

THE NEXT STEP: DROWN OUT THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS!

 

Hook up with this crucial campaign, build on the momentum of the great beginning on November 2nd!

 

FRIDAY (25th):

1pm - Westlake - help distribute flyers, let folks know about this important movement & hook them up to contribute to its success

 

SATURDAY (26th)

1pm - Cafe Vivace's (Broadway & Denny on Capitol Hill) - citywide meeting to find out about & help plan actions to drown out Bush's lie-filled "State of the Union Address" in early Jan 2006.  All who want the Bush regime & the whole fascist direction of this society to be thrown to dustbin of history, are welcome.

4pm - Cafe Vivace's - meetup point to go put WCW posters up around town

 

 

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3)

"REVOLUTION" NEWSPAPER -- DON'T MISS A SINGLE ISSUE!

 

https://ice.he.net/%7Ehominid/index.php/cPath/22

 

Use the above address to order a subscription that will be sent to you through the mail -- this is especially good for those of you who live outside of Seattle or for some other reason cannot get to Revolution Books every week to pick up a copy.

 

You can get a trial 5-issue subscription for $5, a 6-month sub for $20, or a special offer of 1-year sub plus a "Wanted: The Bush Regime" T-shirt (with mug shots & a list of their crimes against New Orleans) for $40.

 

The paper is of course still available to read online at HTTP://REVCOM.US , but we strongly encourage you to get your hands on the actual thing every week.  Not just because you can then see all the beautiful photographs, but more importantly as part of contributing to its ability to be published.  This paper relies on the people, not advertising or big donations from the capitalists we're trying to overthrow.

 

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