"China" A Poem of Partnership - USA and China Climate Change Partnership?

China

intuitive observers of one-ness

parents of music, language and arts

…ancient cultivators of enlightenment…

forgive us our tears

our ignorance

our confusion

forgive us our anger

our impatience

our protest

…we are of a different era…

we, who dare to preach

the slick of our rainbows

still floating in tidal pools

your descendants

your issue

your impetuous child

we have thrown our rebel tantrum

we have risked our mortal souls

heaven beckons us from chaos

from the brink of our undoing

…from the certainty of a global grave…

we respectfully remind you

of your ageless

mutually arising

wisdom

taste carefully

the urgency of commerce

weigh judiciously

the opportunity of trade

consider wisely

the burden of lost time

let us gather our wills together

let us damn this toxic tide

let us nourish the mouths between us

and sever the bonds of distrust

our fates are bound

our promise untested

…let us conquer ourselves together…

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"Comes The Light" by Animated Social Poet annienomad-cyberpoet

"annienomad-cyberpoet" itemizes the social ills paving the way for global unrest and advocates the growing anticipation of much needed change.

               
Comes the Light
 

A Personal Appeal:
Power is shifting.
People are rising.
Consciousness is emerging.

 

Let's work together to ensure that our revolution is a peaceful and intelligent one. 

Join the Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages

Help raise up the most vulnerable among us,

while simultaneously, putting an end to global business policies
designed to starve people for greater profits.

 

A new world is possible. 

Identifying the root of economic inequality is the first step.

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Thank you,
Sharee Anne Gorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
Founder of Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages

 In association with Charter for Compassion.
 

 You can purchase my books here:

http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/politics-and-poetry---an-invitation-to-critical-thinking/066fead7-3add-4075-ae02-6237704eedda?isbn=9781620306710

 

 

Did You Help Save the World Today? Well, You CAN!!

Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages

 

 

Join the movement!

 

A New People Movement to End Corporate Hegemony!

When secret trade-agreements like the TPP start to pass we are seeing the future of oppression written out in contractual agreements with global implications.

What corporations don't want us to look at is that PROFIT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE.

Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages is a new global people movement. We created this petition asking President Obama to enact a world-wide labor treaty for living wages because economic inequality and social injustice is suffocating the natural gifts and resources of our human potential.

The corporate ethos of "Profits Over People" is quite literally killing the world...destroying nations, enslaving the vulnerable and poisoning our planet.

In order to bring balance back to our Earth and restore dignity to our civil unions we must take back the power of people-driven politics, so that we may rein-in runaway corporate abuses and growing shareholder hegemony.

Please SIGN and SHARE this petition to President Obama for a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. 

If we CHANGE the way BUSINESS is done in the world - WE *CAN* CHANGE THE WORLD!! 

Please *like* us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLaborTreatyforLivingWages

Please, "like", "tweet", "G+", "Pin us", "email us" and any other method of communication you can think of...including well-trained Carrier Pigeons :)


Thank you SUPER HEROES for helping to save the world!


Thank you for spreading the news!


Sharee Anne Gorman
annienomad-cyberpoet
http://annienomad.com

Nominate Noam Chomsky for a Nobel Peace Prize

Without Truth, Peace Will Never Be Possible

I'm no one important...just an online cyberpoet. 

But I am also an increasingly-concerned, world-citizen. 

On a daily basis, I watch the way public information is deliberately molded to serve power. I see the global conversation hijacked by corporate and private interests. I observe the way, little by little, language is losing all meaning and context as self-censored, media talking-heads, judiciously avoid actual information in favor reading canned, press release statements of "vetted" sources for fear of losing access to high-profile, seats of power.

The mainstream world is becoming more disoriented, more divorced from reality and less authentic with each passing day.

Critical Thinking is on the decline, while media-manufactured, scandal distraction and group think is on the rise.   

REAL CHANGE will not be possible until citizens around the globe make a conscious decision to celebrate the brave individuals who speak truth to power, who stand steadfastly by their truth and who share their hard-earned wisdom so that others my see the actual path that we are traveling - instead of the illusion that propaganda and misinformation has fashioned over our instruments of perception to keep our hearts and minds from functioning properly. 
 

Professor Noam Chomsky is one of those brave individuals. He regularly shares reality-shifting perspectives, that shatter the official stories of corporate-funded, think tank justifications, designed to keep ordinary citizens complacent in times of great injustice. 

Professor Chomsky speaks the kind of truths that make the powerful, the privileged and the corrupt take a good hard look in the national and global mirror...only to find themselves scrambling to answer his straight-forward challenge of their carefully-constructed, but demonstrably false, agendas. 

 

So, with that in mind, I have started a petition to the International Court of Justice and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to consider nominating Prof. Noam Chomsky (international icon for justice among students and peace-minded individuals everywhere) for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Not just because I feel this nomination is well-deserved and long over-due, but because I believe the nomination will bring much-needed, international attention to the causes of Peace, Nuclear Disarmament and Climate Change – all of which Professor Chomsky (and anyone with a conscience) is passionate about.

 

For over half a century, Professor Chomsky has had to look the most horrific world events in the face then, calmly and intelligently, draw a map of the policies that allowed those events to come to pass so that others could understand the connectivity (or externalities, as he calls them) of neo-liberal, geopolitical strategies.

Professor Chomsky speaks truth to power. He spreads knowledge and understanding of how totalitarianism impacts the world. His tireless commitment to justice creates a dialog of truth which makes CHANGE POSSIBLE...which, in turn, makes PEACE POSSIBLE.

If you agree: Please SIGN & SHARE with your followers and contacts!  Thank you!

https://www.change.org/petitions/nominate-noam-chomsky-for-a-nobel-peace-prize

 

At least, that's the way it seems to me,

Sharee Anne Gorman

annienomad-cyberpoet
http://annienomad.com

The Evolutionary Need for Whistleblowers...by annienomad-cyberpoet

Why we need to consider very carefully the cases of Bradley Manning (Wiki-Leaks), Edward Snowden (NSA) and Bradley Birkenfeld (UBS) before we apply the label of “Traitor”.

The debate over the morality and destructive impact of any Empire’s geopolitical footprint is nothing new. But today, in the age of information, unprecedented surveillance and tech-fueled financial fraud, the debate has risen to international, trans-global proportions. It has, in fact, reached a fever-pitch.

With a camera in every corner of the globe we can no longer ignore the suffering that expansionism creates. We as, a nation, can no longer escape the stunned question upon waking – no, not the familiar question of “Where are we?” But the infinitely more telling question of “Who are we?” 

Whether it be North invading South, East expanding West, or the non-geographical new frontier of cyber-dominance…the question remains. Are we humans genetically programmed to invade, conquer, sabotage and wage endless war in a desperate attempt to stay on top for as long as possible?

This is now America’s burning question. And truth be told, it always has been even from the beginning, in that we were conceived (as George Washington himself described America) as an “Infant Empire”. A deliberate and expanding Empire, that Thomas Jefferson characterized as a “nest” that would spread out and colonize the entire continent - doing away with the red man, eliminating the Latinos and sending the slaves back to Africa when they were no longer needed.

 

Since the inception of our nation the United States has been struggling to bridge the disconnect between the stated ideals of our Founding Fathers and their strategic policies to expand the empire…first here at home, and then abroad.

And in that struggle, some of our best minds have put forth the kind of work that questioned America’s “exceptionalism”.

Artist As Whistleblower

Most people know of George Orwell's cautionary tale "1984" about just how far down the rabbit-hole we can get if surveillance and mind-control go unchecked and unchallenged.

But few remember that during the invasion of the Philippines, Mark Twain wrote an imagined history of a twentieth-century America.  In it, he predicted that a “lust for conquest” had already destroyed “the Great [American] Republic,” because  “trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home.”

Thoughtful, creative types have always felt it was their duty to question the wisdom of those blinded by the quest for power and the satiation of greed. That it is our human imperative to keep ourselves, as a species, evolving rather than devolving.

Keeping our elected leaders on track, serving the will of the people instead of kowtowing to power, is an exercise that, by definition, requires Critical Thinking - the kind of thinking that can identify and illustrate the incongruity of words in a speech or document, verses actions taken on the ground, in our name...with our children.

The inherent hypocrisy of a seeming all-embracing statement such as, “All Men Are Created Equal”…unless, of course, you were born outside the author’s esteemed circle of landed-gentry, a woman, a person of a different color who happen to be a convenient source of free labor, or to a tribe that has been living for centuries on lands rich in natural resources that, rightfully or wrongfully, will be claimed by a superior force…becomes obvious when exposed to the merest hint of a well-formed question.  

Thankfully, as in the parable of “The Emperor Has No Clothes”, even a child can provide a simple reality-check. The absence of which contributes to a myriad of human abuses that continue unchecked and unabated when people of conscience refuse to take a stand. 

In a world where no one will question the rationales of their leaders for fear there won’t be enough for themselves – the end result will always be that the "lower classes" and the unprotected native populations of the world will have to endure the fickle “benevolence” of their land-grabbing, money-hoarding oppressors…in perpetuity. 

Well, maybe not "in perpetuity"- just right up to that terrible moment when the strategic political planners of the invaders decide they have built a strong enough case against their “burden” and no longer see the need for keeping up appearances.  

It then becomes a foregone conclusion that our “enemy” will die, en masse, at the hands of a military (domestic or foreign) saddled with whatever label our leaders have leveled against them to justify their extinction.

Their only crime being...they were living in the path of Empire.  

Whistleblowers are necessary when institutions and governments no longer serve the greater good. They are, if ethically motivated, agents of evolution because the goal of a whistleblower is to demand that those in positions of authority live up to the ideals and mission statements contained within their company charter or government constitution. 

So, I ask you to consider carefully before vilifying the revealers of harsh truths, because the only thing standing between truth and lies…is transparency. 

At least, that’s the way is seems to me,

Annie

annienomad-cyberpoet

http://annienomad.com

 

Truce - Children of War by Sharee Anne Gorman (annienomad-cyberpoet)

 

Truce

(for all Children of War) 

today,

I did not waken to

the sounds of war

morning tea

was not seasoned

by the mist of

crumbling mortar

 my gun,

left on a makeshift

and empty table

 …I go in search of food…

 the theater is gone,

broken rows of empty seats

no longer watch the stage

 where am I? 

signs are missing

familiar landmarks lie lost

among the scattered rubble

 …I hear the crying man before I see him…
 

 how long has he been crying?
 

by the looks of his dead family

must be about a week 

he’ll be gone soon too,

you can tell

 shit! 

there’s the pharmacy

blown to hell 

…“little bit” needs medicine… 

but I don’ know what kind

and I don’t know how much 

God! 

where’s the relief truck?

are they sending supplies?

 what day is it?

what year? 

the streets are so quiet 

silent, almost 

as if, grief

naturally muffles 

…I want to cry…but nothing comes… 

no tears

no prayers

no help 

I have to go back
 

 back and tell “little bit”,

still no food 

“little bit”,

who’s growing weaker

“little bit”,

who likes to bug me at school

“little bit”,

who will die

during my afternoon nap 

…today, I woke to find… 

I had slept through my sister’s

final farewell

 

(excerpt from my book "Legends, Myths & Journeys)

 

©2000shareeannegorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
http://annienomad.com

Peace By Webcam Project

Announcing the 
Peace By Webcam

Project!!!

If you would like to participate in the Peace by Webcam project please go to annienomad's youtube video then tape a reading of "Un-Cry the Call" on your webcam and upload it as a video response! 

Help spread World Peace from your desktop!!

Hold up a photo that you feel best illustrates the horrors of war. 
And record a reading of this poem.

Lets spread the message that war is barbaric. 

"Un-Cry the Call"
(by annienomad-cyberpoet)

Un-drop the cluster bombs

Un-shoot the smuggled guns

Un-bury the abandoned dead

Teach the Joys of Life instead!

Un-orphan the starving child

Un-rape the innocence

Un-shed a people’s tears

Love, transform our ancient fears!

Un-breathe the dying breath

Un-make the Gods of selfless death

Un-mop the countless bloodied floors

Un-cry the call to War!

©shareeannegorman2008

Syria is Dying - A Poem to World Leaders

SYRIA IS DYING

by Sharee Anne Gorman

(annienomad-cyberpoet)

Syria is dying.

Her cries falling on

prime-time deadened ears.

Her murder witnessed

with eyes made callous

by simulated death

and hearts grown shallow

by the manufactured drama

of groveling contestants

chasing dreams of

fleeting stardom.

Syria is dying.

Media and merchants all culpable,

 for their mindless pursuit

of advertising opportunities

while a country burns.

Her cities sacked.

Her families crushed.

Her ancient blood-lines

severed.

Syria is dying.

Buildings and bodies

reduced to rubble.

What is not initially broken

is left to starve.

Can someone please

tell me,

what does it benefit a ruler

if his throne is dipped in Gold

but his kingdom runs with blood?

©shareeannegorman2012
social poet
http://annienomad.com

I look at the world and I'm afraid there are no more Leaders of Conscience...just self-serving politicians, serving self-serving business men. Both camps addicted to winning. Neither side considering the consequences.

"Un-Cry the Call" A poem by annienomad-cyberpoet

"Un-Cry the Call"

(by annienomad-cyberpoet)

Un-drop the cluster bombs

Un-shoot the smuggled guns

Un-bury the abandoned dead

Teach the Joys of Life instead!

Un-orphan the starving child

Un-rape the innocence

Un-shed a people’s tears

Love, transform our ancient fears!

Un-breathe the dying breath

Un-make the Gods of selfless death

Un-mop the countless bloodied floors

Un-cry the Call to War!

©shareeannegorman2008

China - by annienomad - cyberpoet

I wrote this poem a couple of years ago and I thought it might be an appropriate post in honor of President Jintao's visit.

http://annienomadcyberpoet.blip.tv/file/2936535/

Please try and look past my demeanor in this video. I'm not sure if my camera is working and my nervousness sometimes causes me to lose the lower register in my voice. I cringe a little every time I watch it but I really do like (and am sincere about) the sentiment.

I know not everyone will agree with my point of view on this matter but I respect their right to disagree:)

At least, that's the way it seems to me,
Annie