No Justice, No Peace - The Struggle Within (feat. Rachele Roman)

The cloak of democracy keeps us in denial
Of the vengeful policies
Of the security state
Devising newer and crueler ways to isolate
The dissidents they brand terrorists
Overlapping communities of struggle
Revolutionary people of color
Black, American Indian, Puerto Rican, Chicano
Embarking upon a project of moral and spiritual witness
Using clandestine structures and strategic unity
And the politics of solidarity
Militants of the white working class joined
With the explicit commitment to fighting white supremacy
To free prisoners of politics
“We do this because everything else has failed”
“I want to go to school, not jail”
Prisons are indexes of injustice
And what the Government remembers
Social movements cannot afford to forget
A collective memory
Of the assassination and imprisonment
Of revolutionaries
Is the best weapon we have
In the war against forgetting

Written by:
Rebekah Gordon

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