{"id":207273,"date":"2022-03-21T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207273"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:22:22","slug":"to-be-human-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/to-be-human-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Human&#8211;Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/human-rights.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-207275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/human-rights-300x229.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/human-rights-300x229.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/human-rights.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The women, the poor, the marginalised, the ostracised,<br \/>\nWhat do they have in common?<br \/>\nTheir rights are forsaken and forgotten.<br \/>\nThey find persecution all too often.<br \/>\nTheir lives matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whether black, white, male or female,<br \/>\nImmigrant, refugee, Dalit or homeless<br \/>\nThe world doesn\u2019t know any better.<br \/>\nTheir lives matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Will politicians condone this?<br \/>\nNo, they just snarl and hiss!<br \/>\nThey yearn for a life, a future.<br \/>\nSadly they gaze and share their grief.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t own the land, they have no relief!<br \/>\nWith heavy hearts, they wipe their tears.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no equal rights,<br \/>\nJust sleepless nights.<br \/>\nTheir lives matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so many wars and \u00a0fights.<br \/>\nWe are not stone, we are living.<br \/>\nYet you treat us so cruel and \u00a0cold.<br \/>\nWe are All human, yet they spew out guile.<br \/>\nSadly the masks hide their evil smile.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women, the poor, the marginalised, the ostracised,<br \/>\nWhat do they have in common?<br \/>\nTheir rights are forsaken and forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[487,868],"class_list":["post-207273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-human-rights","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207273","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=207273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}