Protest for Libya: Friday 5pm, King George Square

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1. Speak Out Details

   Join the speak out against the bombing of Libya this

   Friday April 1 in King George Sq 5pm

   Colonel Gadaffi presides over a brutal, authoriarian regime. He should be overthrown. However, it is clear from the examples of Iraq and Afganistan that regime change cannot be imposed from without. The people of the Middle East and North Africa have demonstrated that they have the capacity to effectively challenge their own dictators. Western forces should keep out.

   — Adrian Stop the War Committee (STWC)

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2. This pro democratic poem is dedicated to all the Libyan freedom fighters and for all of those who want a democratic Libya.

   Poem: Suppression, I accept not – by Bhuwan Thapaliya

   I came into this world
   not like the river but like a drop of water
   and will soon evaporate

   Though, I am only a drop of water in the majestic ocean of nature
   I yearn to create a vigorous ripple of freedom, in the eternity of the water

   For I am a man of eternal freedom,
   and suppression I accept not …
   I will not accept it

   The living God within me urges me to be free, and to
   march on the road of freedom sans any dread

   My heart, like Einstein, thinks in another dimension
   unknown and unknowable …
   even to my own mind

   And like Goethe, looks at things in a different manner,
   different than those thinkers
   bestowed with pristine minds

   Freedom, the gift of God, is the inherent right
   of every individual
   in this compressed world

   I will fight till the end to free the masses
   from the grip of suppression
   and ignite the lamp of freedom

   I will free the masses or die in the attempt
   but I will never live to see
   the naked dance of repression

   I am not afraid of those suppressors,
   nor am I afraid of the death
   that they are planning for me;
   they can kill me but not freedom forever

   My blood boils whenever I see the strong ones
   pulverising the lean, and my heart cries
   whenever I see the starving pauper
   in the abattoir of the prosperous butcher

   For me
   a red rose is a red rose
   it is not white just because they call it white
   to disguise the ignorant

   They can conquer Everest but not my spirit
   they can stagnate the river
   but not my impetus

   They can take my sight away
   but not my vision of freedom

   They can cut my tongue into pieces
   but not my voice of freedom

   They can stab me with the dagger of despotism
   but not impede the blood of freedom

   I know the road to freedom is blocked with obstacles
   but obstacles cause no despair
   if they are encountered with hope

   We must act now and not merely just look away
   when our freedom
   is threatened from within

   Because it is better to perish without freedom
   than to have a yearn for freedom
   but not the valour to harvest it

   Don’t be a coward …

   Be prepared to receive bullets to your chest
   because, in the struggle of freedom, tolerance
   of suppression is an offence

   Stand up … stand up

   Gather your courage. Come out
   into the field; let’s march hand in
   hand together, right beneath the
   nose of the suppressors, for the
   emancipation of our freedom

   Let us not forget that …

   The ocean is composed of drops
   of water, and all drops possess
   equal potentials, but only, when
   they mix with other drops do
   they form a powerful bond

   So …

   Listen, my oppressed brothers
   listen, my trodden sisters
   listen … listen
   to the natural desire
   of your ceaseless soul

   Do not fear
   trust your soul
   and march ahead
   with a resolute heart
   for the better tomorrow

   And scatter
   the seeds of freedom,
   where does it go?
   it does not matter
   scatter it more with hope

   Welcome the freedom
   welcome it today
   and enjoy it evermore
   but do not use your freedom
   to suppress the people’s soul
   to suppress the people’s soul

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