“We Will Not Be Silent”
People Rally in Milwaukee

Tonight I went to hear Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, a national, daily, independent, news program, speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union. She had been in Madison, the State Capitol, this morning for her TV show and was impressed by the stand Wisconsin residents are taking in the effort to stop the Governor for breaking up State Unions.

She told lots of stories, from Egypt, Harry Belafonte, and Martin Luther King Jr. At the end her talk she spoke about the youth in Nazi Germany during World War II who were not afraid to speak out against the atrocities of the government. You can find the story of this community, the White Rose collective, on the Featured Article web site at Alexander Schmorell and the White Rose. One of the pamphlets published by this collective was called “We Will Not Silent.”

It was a good ending to her talk and gave energy to the crowd at the talk to Break the Silence on this issue as well as other ones of peace and justice.

In Libya breaking the silence and taking to the streets is risking life. In Nazi Germany it meant for people of the White Rose collective or Franz Jägerstätter certain death. For Martin Luther King Jr., exactly one year to the date, April 4th, his Riverside speech breaking the silence about the war in Vietnam it mean assassination was he was helping to organize garbage workers.

The struggle here in Wisconsin is not threatening anyone’s life but it is saying “We will Not Be Silent”.

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