{"id":113884,"date":"2018-07-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=113884"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:56:15","slug":"great-march-of-return-and-the-unspeakable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/great-march-of-return-and-the-unspeakable\/","title":{"rendered":"Great March of Return and the Unspeakable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This wordless borderland<br \/>\nWhere love and atrocity meet<\/p>\n<p>Where free fire zones<br \/>\nFill pools with blood<\/p>\n<p>Overflowing hatred<br \/>\nClimb forlorn fences<\/p>\n<p>Call forth silences<br \/>\nOf heart and mind<\/p>\n<p>Words of rage<br \/>\nRightless rights<\/p>\n<p>March and return<br \/>\nReturn and march<\/p>\n<p>Tears are not enough<br \/>\nNor outrage nor silence<\/p>\n<p>When tending the wounded<br \/>\nBecome a capital crime<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to say<br \/>\nThis world is doomed<\/p>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n<p><em>27 Jun 2018 &#8211; Yalikavak, Turkey<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/RichardFalk20141.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-72809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/RichardFalk20141-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Richard Falk is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network<\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" >United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur\" >United Nations Special Rapporteur<\/a> on &#8220;the situation of human rights in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_territories\" >Palestinian territories<\/a> occupied since 1967.&#8221; Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is <\/em>Achieving Human Rights<em> (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>campaign<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wordless borderland<br \/>\nWhere love and atrocity meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}