My cancer consult is next Thurs.
I'm sure you are probably deeply read in the women's suffrage movement,
but ever since I saw Iron Jawed Angels a year ago I've been
in awe, and within the last 2 months read A Woman's Crusade -
Alice Paul and learned sooooooo much more.
Know what Martyr means? I didn't - learned that one just now
reading Steve Biko's writings - Martyr means witness; and I think
that means "evidence," "proof," "testament..." to the truth.
Inez Milholland was a Martyr - a witness that, you bet your ass
women's rights NOW is worth our very lives, NOW. Did she want to be a martyr?
Did she want to die? Did she want to work herself to a 30 year old
death? SHE WANTED WOMEN'S RIGHTS, NOW. HER LIFE BECAME
AN UNMISTAKABLE WITNESS TO THAT.
When Inez worked herself to death for the cause, who did she wake up?
A DOZEN OR SO OF THE MOST COURAGEOUS
ACTIVISTS ALIVE - ALICE PAUL, AND ANOTHER HANDFUL, THAT
ALREADY WERE ON RAGING FIRE, BUT INEZ WITNESS MADE IT A BONFIRE,
THAT NO ONE KNEW WAS POSSIBLE. That's how it works. Right?
Or, the bonfire never, NEVER happen.
I am certain now that we are infinitely too dead to stop ecocide -
no matter that we could do it without breaking a sweat, almost none
of us dying. Too inconvenient. We are the
zombie apocalypse, already. But, slowing it down,
saving 1, let alone 100 million over the next 1000 generations,
what would that be worth? My life, if I could figure out how to
spend that, my life, MY ONLY ASSET, in a way that hold's promise?
Rock yes! No?
My guess is that I'll find the new prognosis, treatment plan, of too
great a cost to society, and coming at the wrong time - the most firtile
6 months in human history to reduce, slow, stop... ecocide by global warming.
My lead thought is to go on a trek, a bike ride, around the country, till
the cancer stops me, with the message, question, a sign along the lines of:
WOULDN'T
U DIE 2
STOP ECOCIDE
BY FOSSIL FUELS?
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