II International Festival of Poetry of Resistance
September 16 – 20. 2002 - Toronto
By the Right of Self Determination of peoples, and in honor of
the Cuban Five, Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The event on December 20, was a very unforgettable one!
The “Walls of Shame” it was presented from different perspectives and forms but the conclusion is, that all of them is a shame to the world and have to disappear!
Walls of shames like the ones build in the lands of Western Sahara, Mexico, Palestine, and now Egypt, (which is one of the three mayor recipients of USA aid for military purposes in the world) the infamous blockade on Cuba, rejected by the entire world but imposed by USA, Israel and Caiman Islands; and the cultural barriers and also personal walls, created by greed, racism or discrimination have to fall down. They are outdoor-jails from stolen land and genocide against their people.
At the event we had the presence of the brave and wise Judith Weisman who talked about the Zionist wall and the terrible siege that the people are living, and how Egypt is making it worst with the construction of a “steel wall” to avoid the fluid of Palestinians, denying their access to obtain what is needed to survive.
Jose Gonzalez “Tonatiuh” talked about the history of the Saharaui people, their resistance and the “Wall of Shame” built by France and Israel and “unknown?”….? by the mass media. It is the biggest one after the ancient Chinese Wall “Tonatiuh” recited a poem dedicated to the saharaui women, specially to Aminatu Haidar presenting the Western Sahara history on a map to teach us about their rights and struggle for self determination.
Now Mexico with the Walls of Shame, made a contrast in the invocation of the ancient teachings of a millenarian and rich culture that flourished again in the words and presence of Elizabeth Corona (Matlactli Kiahutl)
Jeannine Pitas’ poem described her Childhood memories with her Mexican friend sharing their lives but devided by a wall and her image was vanished little by little till her separation, living the other side of her, where the image of seeds, and her friend, from the other side vanished
Godofredo Carranza's passion took us in his flying carpet to the One and a thousand nights and the marvelous history of the Arab culture and its mythical cities, making the night back to us in a real dimension, not in the one that the destructive colonialism creates, calling them salvages.
Jesus Maya talked about the hard life of ordinary peoples, describing the relation of a little kid living in a violent city, in which his beloved dog could not survive it; showing us how our lives are caught in a dangerous race, in which velocity is killing the marvelous things that surreand us.
Monica Rosas LA LOBA with her oda to life, childhood and ingenuity that resist the lost of innocence and to be tamed, brings us the enchanted voice of a land, through her ancestors and her presence, and the mythical time in characters as her grand mother.
Josefina Chavez and her poems of dignity and freedom call us to assume how our destiny like the one that is carrying the innocents of the world as the case of the Cuban Five.
And there Ivan Chavez who in front of his every day life, started to put it in question and asked himself about the possibility of a path with more sense. This also makes a reflexion on an unnecessary life of consumerism.
The wise and the sensible giver is personified by Charles Roach and his struggle for Civil Right for all, and against colonialism. Charles Who is a pillar and fundamental part of this festival offers us his poetry and rapso enveloped in the warm of a caribbean flavor.
Roger Langen. Resistance is dignity!. His readings transcend the audience’s minds
From the sublime to beyond, in a mixture of mythology without losing the beauty of reality
We declare Ellington’s café our place; The “Heart of Fire” of the festival, they’re always warm and full of colours, embracing us with the possibility to reach the magic and common space of Poetry.
Thanks to all the people that with their presence, made possible this encounter, that enriched us by their words and evocations, taking us to a common time in diversity, that allows as fly to touch pieces of our utopia of a world with peace, and social justice.
At the end special thanks to Voces Poeticas for their generosity, sensibility and beauty!!!
They are voices of healing, the power of music that convocate that marvelous unity with poetry and who decide join us with the Festival all the way.
We expect you continue accompanying us,
in our activities by the
Right of Self Determination of peoples, and in honor ofthe Cuban Five, Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Your Solidarity feeds our fight and the fight is of all. Always United!!
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Por lobogabriel - 6 de Enero, 2010, 7:13, Categoría: periodico
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