To Liberation and Beyond … (06/22/15)
My dear Friends, let us work TODAY to liberate all victims of violence in our communities. Oppressed minorities, tortured animals, and victims of war (especially those casualties caused at home & abroad by our own governments) — this is the Trinity of victims that we need to be striving to liberate — this is the Trinity of the traumatized that we need to heal …
Injustice is everywhere in our oft-sick & still-dying world, and denying it or even looking away from it keeps its festering illness alive and well. This is true for the systemic racism against Blacks in the United States, this is true for the systemic discrimination against homosexuals (and those of other alternative genders) around the world, and this is true for every single animal enslaved to the barbaric cruelties of the global meat & milk industry … You can remain in denial of these facts, and yet your apathy will not stop the very real bigotry-based violence that minorities suffer every week and the very real greed-based horrors that farmed animals suffer every single minute of every single day …
My Friends, you have no duty to solve these massive problems. Rather, it is your privilege & your honor to simply PLAY YOUR PART in doing so — in bringing respect to the despised by standing up to racial & gender-based bigotry in your community, in bringing justice to the abused by going vegan in your home, and — thereby — in bringing Peace to our still-beautiful planet, while there is still time to do so …
Thank you.
(inspired by Joanna Blad)
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