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“Is there an honorable non-violent means towards mourning and remembering who and what we loved?”
For #911Anniversary, I share this from poet June Jordan’s a keynote at Barnard in November 2001 about the attacks.
For #911Anniversary, I share this from poet June Jordan’s a keynote at Barnard in November 2001 about the attacks.
Keynote: Some of us did not die.
In examining how those who survived can best honour those killed, Jordan quotes Holocaust survivor Elly Gross: “I guess it was my destiny to live...To live means you owe something big to those whose lives are taken away from them” #911Anniversary
In examining how those who survived can best honour those killed, Jordan quotes Holocaust survivor Elly Gross: “I guess it was my destiny to live...To live means you owe something big to those whose lives are taken away from them” #911Anniversary
June Jordan urges resisting a “rally Around Caesar”and instead “rally around an emergency/militant reconstruction of a secular democracy consecrated to the equality of each and every living one of us.” #911Anniversary
June Jordan died June 14, 2002, seven months after giving that keynote at Barnard. The US did the exact opposite of what she urged it would. Condolences to all who lost loved ones on 9/11 and to all who lost loved ones in the wars fought to avenge it. #911Anniversary
You can read an adaptation of that keynote as the introduction to this collection of essays by June Jordan. Her words are tattooed on my skin because she is vital and fills me with power. #911Anniversary
