Thursday, December 06, 2007
Prayer, Creepy Songs, Leunig, & Lives
Is There Anything in Prayer?
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Lyrics to a song from the 70's...
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They're Taking the People's Treasure
Written By: Scott Silver, Executive Director, Wild Wilderness
http://www.wildwilderness.org/docs/private.htm
"The People's Treasure is a wonderful poem by the Australian poet Michael Leunig which beautifully describes how the privatizers are stealing what
we collectively own. It begins:
They're privatising things we own together.
And though we're still connected by the weather
They say that sharing things is now unsound.
They're lonelifying all the public spaces.
They're rationalising swags and billabongs.
They're awfulising nature's lovely places,
Dismantling the dreaming and the songs."
Wherever you look you can see the privatizers. Free-trade agreements, the
prison industrial complex, terminator seed technology and corporate run
school systems are just a few of the forms privatization is taking. It is
the impending Corporate Takeover of Nature with its associated
Privatization of Wildness where I have established my personal battle
lines in this larger fight."
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