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*AS I GROW OLD I WILL MARCH NOT SHUFFLE* – BRIAN BILSTON POET he’s been called “the Banksy of poetry.”
As I grow old I will not shuffle to the beat of self-interest and make that slow retreat to the right. I will be a septuagenarian insurrectionist marching with the kids. I shall sing ‘La Marseillaise’, whilst brandishing homemade placards that proclaim I will be an octogenarian obstructionist, and build unscalable barricades from bottles of flat lemonade, tartan blankets and chicken wire. I will hurl prejudice upon the brazier’s fire. I will be a nonagenarian nonconformist, armed with a ballpoint pen and a hand that shakes with rage not age at politicians’ latest crimes, in strongly-worded letters to The Times. I will be a centenarian centurion and allow injustice no admittance. I will stage longstanding sit-ins. My mobility scooter and I will move for no-one. And when I die I will be the scattered ashes that attach themselves to the lashes and blind the eyes of racists and fascists. Part One: H*ealth care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike*
*Michael McQuarrie Director, Center for Work and DemocracyAssociate Professor, School of Social Transformation Arizona State UniversityPart Two: a discussion with Bill Curry about the following articleThe most successful assassination in history by Chilean author Daniel Matamala* listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Brian Bilston, growing old, Michale McQuarrie, Arizona State, Kaiser Permanente, strike, nurses, unions,Bill Curry, Daniel Matamala, Israel, Palestine, humanity, two state solution
*AS I GROW OLD I WILL MARCH NOT SHUFFLE* – BRIAN BILSTON POET he’s been called “the Banksy of poetry.”
As I grow old I will not shuffle to the beat of self-interest and make that slow retreat to the right. I will be a septuagenarian insurrectionist marching with the kids. I shall sing ‘La Marseillaise’, whilst brandishing homemade placards that proclaim I will be an octogenarian obstructionist, and build unscalable barricades from bottles of flat lemonade, tartan blankets and chicken wire. I will hurl prejudice upon the brazier’s fire. I will be a nonagenarian nonconformist, armed with a ballpoint pen and a hand that shakes with rage not age at politicians’ latest crimes, in strongly-worded letters to The Times. I will be a centenarian centurion and allow injustice no admittance. I will stage longstanding sit-ins. My mobility scooter and I will move for no-one. And when I die I will be the scattered ashes that attach themselves to the lashes and blind the eyes of racists and fascists. Part One: H*ealth care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike*
*Michael McQuarrie Director, Center for Work and DemocracyAssociate Professor, School of Social Transformation Arizona State UniversityPart Two: a discussion with Bill Curry about the following articleThe most successful assassination in history by Chilean author Daniel Matamala* listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Brian Bilston, growing old, Michale McQuarrie, Arizona State, Kaiser Permanente, strike, nurses, unions,Bill Curry, Daniel Matamala, Israel, Palestine, humanity, two state solution
