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{SPEAKER name="Sonia Sanchez"}
with that you, and trying to breathe life back into his body, tasting his morning pancakes, of course I knew him.
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To pieces I talk about, move,
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and pieces that talk about trying to move in an upright fashion.
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I have pieces to ANC and Brandywine,
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a Peace Community, people that I support, actively.
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One of the peace movements in this country, and ANC, of course, you know, is in South Africa.
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Because I think they're one and the same, you understand, and I've very consciously have put them together.
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So I have a Haiku'ed about Osage Avenue,
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the MOVE thing, and also the same kind of about door knocking that we saw throughout South Africa.
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you know, and about the police on Osage Avenue and police in South Africa.
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Because they're one and the same
{SPEAKER name="Nancy Shiffrin"}
They're parallel--
{SPEAKER name="Sonia Sanchez"}
--in the way they move, right. So, yeah, I'm trying to hook up, I'm trying to connect
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with people, the similarities of oppression. That oppression is the same wherever we are.
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And we must learn how to organize and come up against that oppression wherever we are, or so to, wherever we live, be it on Osage Avenue, or be it in South Africa.
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Um. I'm doing a novel, I'm trying to finish up a novel this year.
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Um. And it's--it's a nov-- part of the Africa?? that I read,
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which talks about a woman, and her -- how she moves, and how she goes crazy, and how she comes up and,
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and finally is -- so -- it's like a novel -- that talks about women. And it's for women, about women.
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Trying to be - being crazy at the same time that they're sane. And needing to be, they must be, they must survive,
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because, I think that, uh, there are people who will, are really, reconstruct this world,
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once they decide to do that; you know, once they really realize that the peace they're after
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is not a piece of a multi-national corporation, you know what I'm saying?
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That the peace they're after, is really about world peace, and also peace on this earth
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and, we've all got to taste a little bit of this earth, you know, as we move and live here,
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on this earth. And, and it's beyond materialism.
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I was very serious when I said we have to purge capitalism from our dreams. It's an old dream. It's a tired, dying dr--
Transcription Notes:
MOVE on Osage Avenue is with all Caps.
unknown words at 3:00-3:02 & 3:05..