NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW RALLY NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Somehow we pulled it off along with over 1000 communities across the nation! Much thanks to our dedicated and smart members and allies. About 100 people turned out on an overcast night at short notice. Thank you!
LINK TO CITY AGENDA FOR 11/13
PROTEST ORDINANCE
SCREENSHOT OF SUMMARY
AND BY POPULAR REQUEST, THE POEM FROM LAST NIGHT'S RALLY:
“Pity the Nation”
Pity the nation whose
people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
Beat poet Lawrence
Ferlinghetti is the co-founder of the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San
Francisco. Born in 1919, he still goes to work every day. He wrote this
poem in 2007. It is as prescient today as it was then.
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