Tuesday, December 20, 2011

News at Eleven: "I had never thought of starting a movement

or being a spokesman for anything. I'm a poet, and poets are better known for working with more obscure intuitions. But in those moments I was reminded that the life of the soul can be powerful too. My chief intuition then was that we had to give name and form to this tragedy and somehow put that into action with real citizens as a way to tell the government, 'We need something new, especially new institutions to fight our lawlessness and corruption and impunity, not just that of the drug cartels but the state.'["--Javier Sicilia]

from Time: Person of the Year: Why I Protest: Javier Sicilia of Mexico
then Time: Person of the Year: The Protester

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