oakland is getting ready to host its first marathon in 25 years. tomorrow!
in preparation, here is oakland's own mystic, from her first album, cuts for luck & scars for freedom, video featuring our beloved bay area city.
the life : mystic
**
the life : mystic (remix)
but you know and i know it's all about survival
this struggle of our people is like that unrivaled
the politicans they was never in control
it's deeper then that, a true battle for the soul
what they want is to bring us to our knees
so my people guard your life by any means
...
recently my friend lost her family home in east oakland. some vicious real estate speculators stole it from her grandmother, the result of a sketchy foreclosure & auction at the alameda county courthouse, where they bought it for one-half its current market price and paid in cash. her family had been in that neighborhood, in that very home, for more than fifty years, ever since they immigrated from the philippines to one of the only areas in the city that at the time wasn't whites-only.
ugh, gentrifiers are sucking the life out of so many of our neighborhoods. que se vayan al infierno! and i hope it's really hot in there.
oakland fans & marathon spectators should support the team that's running for causa justa / just cause, because every day they work to defend this city for all of us, organizing resistance to vulture banks & developers, fighting to keep families in their rightful homes & communities.
...
¡oakland es del pueblo! el pueblo ¿dónde está?
¡¡el pueblo está en las calles exigiendo libertad!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment