The little AU: Winter Hopes: Companions on the path
The little AU: Winter Hopes: Companions on the path
slashfairy
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He leaves the taping shaking from tiredness but so happy- so very happy to have been a part of carrying the fire with Howard another ways down the road, so very happy to be part of what Rebecca Solnit describes as "not going home" when there's been one small victory: one Berlin Wall torn down, one WTO meeting changed by street protesters, one more rally against torture and genocide. It's been over twenty years since Howard's book first came out, the same year he graduated from St. Lawrence- he's so happy, now, to be part of bringing this profoundly different view of America's History to a larger audience.
And what better time than now? When so many, many things are being discussed on the grass-roots level, if not in the mainstream? He can only hope that the other people in the grassroots will speak truth to power: write to their media about not covering the media for not covering certain stories [it is with wry amusement he notes that The Insider is one of the movies available on the cable where he's staying tonight; Russell should have gotten the Oscar for that, really]- he knows his mind is wandering, from point to point, but always comes back to this: it's in the hands of the people, in the end.
If only they will remember, each and every, that we're all in this together. Speak truth to power, and know the truth for yourself. That's what Howard wrote, so many years ago, never thinking that his small but reasoned and well-written protest against the mainstream view would end up being filmed for television so the whole world could know and think and decide.
He goes to bed knowing that in a few hours, he'll get up and go on. Knowing he's not alone makes his sleep that much sweeter.
previously: Threads
next: Moonlight
slashfairy
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He leaves the taping shaking from tiredness but so happy- so very happy to have been a part of carrying the fire with Howard another ways down the road, so very happy to be part of what Rebecca Solnit describes as "not going home" when there's been one small victory: one Berlin Wall torn down, one WTO meeting changed by street protesters, one more rally against torture and genocide. It's been over twenty years since Howard's book first came out, the same year he graduated from St. Lawrence- he's so happy, now, to be part of bringing this profoundly different view of America's History to a larger audience.
And what better time than now? When so many, many things are being discussed on the grass-roots level, if not in the mainstream? He can only hope that the other people in the grassroots will speak truth to power: write to their media about not covering the media for not covering certain stories [it is with wry amusement he notes that The Insider is one of the movies available on the cable where he's staying tonight; Russell should have gotten the Oscar for that, really]- he knows his mind is wandering, from point to point, but always comes back to this: it's in the hands of the people, in the end.
If only they will remember, each and every, that we're all in this together. Speak truth to power, and know the truth for yourself. That's what Howard wrote, so many years ago, never thinking that his small but reasoned and well-written protest against the mainstream view would end up being filmed for television so the whole world could know and think and decide.
He goes to bed knowing that in a few hours, he'll get up and go on. Knowing he's not alone makes his sleep that much sweeter.
previously: Threads
next: Moonlight