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<div>Dear friends,</div>
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You are invited to join the first Revolutionary Poetry Project
event Saturday, March 24, 1 PM, in Davis Square, Somerville (255
Elm St., close to the Davis Square Red line T station).
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<div>The eight stanzas of poetry (or "lyrics") for this project
are online as they appear on our signs one stanza per sign at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://newdemocracyworld.org/verses.pdf"
target="_blank">http://newdemocracyworld.org/verses.pdf</a>
, and formatted to print copies as lyrics for rapping at <a
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href="http://newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/This_I_Believe_in_rhyme_small.pdf"
target="_blank">http://newdemocracyworld.org/revolution/This_I_Believe_in_rhyme_small.pdf</a>
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<div>We are going to "rap" the poetry as lyrics, and eight of us
(at a time) will position ourselves in a line on the sidewalk,
wearing signboards, each one with one of the eight stanzas of
poetry, blown up to an 18" by 24" sign, as you can see online.
The front and back signs will be such that people walking past
in either direction will see the stanzas in the proper order.
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<div>The poetry is about how we have a fake democracy based on
rotten values of billionaire rulers; about how the "free
enterprise" system is bad for regular people, about how
there should be economic equality with no rich and no poor
in an economy based on sharing according to need, not buying
and selling; about how real democracy means laws made only
at the local level by town hall type meetings and social
order on a larger scale based on voluntary federation, not a
centralized hierarchical government by supposed
"representatives"; and about why we need a revolution to
make our society the way it ought to be. All in iambic
tetrameter!</div>
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<div>We will ask people who have read (or heard) the poetry to
read a short prose version of the poetry (on a clipboard
with signatures) and to sign it if they agree with it; the
statement is "This I Believe" (online at <a
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href="http://newdemocracyworld.org/This%20I%20Believe.pdf"
target="_blank">http://newdemocracyworld.org/This%20I%20Believe.pdf</a>
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<div>The purpose of collecting these signatures is twofold:
#1: We want to let people know that they are not alone in
having the revolutionary aspirations that they have. When
people sign they will see the other signatures in the
clipboard. Also we will spread the word every way we can
about how many people have signed. #2: When people see that
those with revolutionary aspirations are not a hopelessly
powerless minority but rather a potentially powerful
majority, then they will for the first time have the
confidence to engage in the actual collective actions
required to make a revolution and create a new and better
society--one that, among many other wonderful things, will
not support Zionism or any other oppression.</div>
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<div>Contact me for more information, or just show up and join
the fun.</div>
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<div>--John</div>
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