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A Manifesto of Hope
We are the youth of America.
Our opinions matter; we are not just stupid little kids.
We are human beings, not tools of war.
We should be treated the same regardless of age.
Furiously, we demand to know the truth.
We demand to be heard. Why are people dying every day in our name? Why do people care more about pop icons than the atrocities of a war started under false pretenses?
We are terrified of the oppression that may arise if unnecessary wars continue.
We as a generation shed tears for the ruthlessness of The Man and his false representation and maliciousness in ripping apart our families, our communities, our cities, our countries, our way of life; not only our lives, but the lives of our brothers and sisters through both God and Relation.
We do not hate The Man, but rather the constitutional revisions, the imprisonment without reason, his vision of life plagued with distortion, less concerned with human life than a right to abortion.
Stop this horrendous war in which children are dying at an outrageous rate.
We are in danger of becoming another Lost Generation as the young fight a war of an old man's creation, then return home just to fight another; disrespected and understated, poverty and no assistance, veteran's fight our government's resistance.
While unconcerned citizens "support our troops" with stickers Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant fill the news tickers.
Spending money on the wars, stealing funds from school boards, we as a nation are desperate for education. We need books not bombs, pencils not planes, erasres not empires.
We will fight War, not wars.
contributing Poets: Kimberly Winter, Nigel Burton, Alyssa Cose-Prime, Marcell Charles, Ryan Dineen, Robert Haynes, Nic Biassotti, Allison Clark, Tim Shea, Steven Lenoir.
I LOST A FRIEND IN IRAQ TODAY IM SICK OF THIS WAR THIS SOCIETY AND FUCKING BUSH
We are the youth of America.
Our opinions matter; we are not just stupid little kids.
We are human beings, not tools of war.
We should be treated the same regardless of age.
Furiously, we demand to know the truth.
We demand to be heard. Why are people dying every day in our name? Why do people care more about pop icons than the atrocities of a war started under false pretenses?
We are terrified of the oppression that may arise if unnecessary wars continue.
We as a generation shed tears for the ruthlessness of The Man and his false representation and maliciousness in ripping apart our families, our communities, our cities, our countries, our way of life; not only our lives, but the lives of our brothers and sisters through both God and Relation.
We do not hate The Man, but rather the constitutional revisions, the imprisonment without reason, his vision of life plagued with distortion, less concerned with human life than a right to abortion.
Stop this horrendous war in which children are dying at an outrageous rate.
We are in danger of becoming another Lost Generation as the young fight a war of an old man's creation, then return home just to fight another; disrespected and understated, poverty and no assistance, veteran's fight our government's resistance.
While unconcerned citizens "support our troops" with stickers Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant fill the news tickers.
Spending money on the wars, stealing funds from school boards, we as a nation are desperate for education. We need books not bombs, pencils not planes, erasres not empires.
We will fight War, not wars.
contributing Poets: Kimberly Winter, Nigel Burton, Alyssa Cose-Prime, Marcell Charles, Ryan Dineen, Robert Haynes, Nic Biassotti, Allison Clark, Tim Shea, Steven Lenoir.
I LOST A FRIEND IN IRAQ TODAY IM SICK OF THIS WAR THIS SOCIETY AND FUCKING BUSH