Rev. Lennox Yearwood Speaking at the Festival for the Future

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, speaking at the Festival for the Future in Portland Oregon on March 4, 2008, an event organized by the Backbone Campaign, www.backbonecampaign.org.

Rev. Yearwood speaks about the loss of 1,000,000 Iraqi lives, the uprooting of another 4 1/2 million and the repercussions this has on the surrounding countries. He talks about our complicity in this and our obligation to step outside our busy lives as students and workers and contribute to stopping this madness.

Yearwood brought the urgency of the upcoming election into focus. "We must face the reality that with our taxpayer dollars, over 1,000,000 Iraqis have been exterminated off of the face of the earth. Folks just like you, got smiles like you, walk like you, got love interest like you, got children like you, get married like you, laugh like you. And because of our greed and our addiction to fossil fuels, they no longer sit here like you, they no longer breath like you."
"Because of our addiction and our ability to let this Administration do what it has done........now one million Iraqis are dead, 4.5 million are displaced, can't go home, 2 million within Iraq, 2.5 million in Syria and Lebanon and Jordan. That would be like there was a war in California and that number came to Oregon. Can you imagine what impact that would have on your system. What would that do to your school, what would that do to your health care."

"That is what's going on in Syria, that's what is going on in Jordan: madness is going on!"

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News & Politics

Tags:

• occupation
• refugees
• iraq
• mid-east
• lebonon
• syria

[backbonebill]

Thank you Rev. Yearwood. You are a modern day prophet. I'm continually inspired by you.