adrienne maree, the luscious satyagraha

my friend janine sent this for my baby sister's graduation message and i read it and wanted to share it. i had lunch with a lovely family todaythat included a brilliant 2 yr old who sucked me into his little world. i had breakfast with davey d - not 2, but brilliant and also with a world togo into. my family is in their world right now, preparing for the end of their childrens' college days. my only duty is to smile. 

tony kushner says:

"This May I sense hope in the air, and urgency, and as has so often beenthe recent case, terrible danger, and so the urgent need of the world isabout to snatch you, ready or not, from this most beautiful brick andstony womb and begin its demanding: HELP! HELP! HELP! The world ismelting, the world is darkening, there is injustice everywhere, there isartificial scarcity everywhere, there is desperate human need, povertyand untreated illness and exploitation everywhere, there is ignoranceeverywhere, not native to the species but cruelly enforced, there isjoylessness and hatred of the body and slavery masked as freedom andcommunity disintegrating, everywhere, racism, everywhere, sexism,everywhere, homophobia, everywhere, everywhere the world is in need ofrepair. Fix it, solve these things, you need only the tools you havelearned here, even if you didn't pay as much attention as you should,even if you're a mess and broke and facing a future of economic terror -who isn't, who doesn't? HELP! HELP! HELP! The world is calling, heal theworld and in the process heal yourself, find the human in yourself byfinding the citizen, the activist, the hero. Down with the boodle-mindedmisadventurers, after them, you know where they are, I figured thisspeech should be nonpartisan in case there are any, you know,Republicans in the audience but even if you are Republican, after them,down with the boodle-minded misadventurers, up with the Republic. Dutycalls, the world calls, get active! No summer vacation, no rest for you,we have been waiting too long for you, we need your contribution toodesperately, and if they tell you your contribution is meaningless, ifthey tell you the fix is in and there's no contribution to be made, ifthey tell you to contribute by shopping your credit card intoexhaustion, if they tell you to surrender the brilliant, dazzlingconfusion your education should have engendered in you, to exchange thatquicksilver polyphony for dull monotone certainties, productive only ofaggression borne of boredom and violence borne of fear borne ofstupidity, they're lying, don't trust them, get rid of them, you knowwho they are and where they are to be found and they'll all be happierback on the ranch in Crawfordsville."        --Tony Kushner, Columbia College Class Day, 2004