Earl’s Gotta Die
March 29, 2012 Leave a comment
I love this song and video by the Dixie Chicks.
This is dedicated to the women of the new women’s movement. To any woman who has actually gone through this horror. To women who have clawed their ways back from abuse of any sort, be it
physical,
emotional, or
political,
and to those who have not survived. Like Shaima Al Awadi, a 32 year old Iraqi Muslim mother of five who was living in El Cajon, California. She was attacked and killed in her home.
Women – and the men who respect them – will fight with every skill and weapon available to defeat oppressors and guarantee a better life for your children and their children. It is a battle, like that against racism, that will have no end. We aren’t counting on early retirement from the battlefield. We will hand down our weapons and teach our skills to the next generation, that they might improve upon them as they continue the battle.
Feet in the Street, people. Whether protesting the death of a mother of five in California or the intrusions by state legislatures into women’s most personal decisions. There is strength to be gained and shown by marching together in public. En masse. Don’t let others carry the banner for you.
Join us on April 28: burying Earl will do us all a world of good.
