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do not necessarily reflect my own opinions. I am trying to create an
open forum. I reserve the right to include any
submitted article or not, with or without saying why. If you
wish to reproduce any of these writings or graphics you must ask permission of the
author. At the bottom of each article will be contact information for
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This Article is Dedicated to
Cherokee Chief Stone Bear |
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At moments like these the whole
setting inflicts upon you the need to revert to silence…
Words become colorless… dreams are lost as ghosts in the
mist… You believed in a different morrow where peace
prevails over partition and love shatters division…
You take a step forward… above the crowd… above
yourself… You refuse to submit … you disobey the mind… you
follow faithfully the heartbeat and a cry of distress from
within calls you to take a stand… But you discover that the
future does not belong to you… A clan of pirates have stolen
the world you dreamt of, together with your innocence…
You have lost your purity. Together with your dreams
they have deformed your soul… You are running with a book… a
film… with hope… to tell the world that truth, like a coin,
has two sides… But no Bank is willing to exchange it… They
say its counterfeited… The nightmare begins… If what has
come out from your heart is a forgery then so is the womb
that gave birth to it… what is false heart doing in my
chest… If it was made of plastic then perhaps it have the
right to hate… to destroy…to make allowances…
Now you know… the world does not belong to you… It
belongs to the satraps of the East and the lords of the
West… You are nothing but a shabby "x" on a worn out
voting-paper that has been deceived hundreds of times
before… You return however to the poll, again and again, to
lick the legs which for centuries trample over you… To kiss
passionately the lips which suck your blood… to shake the
hands of those who tomorrow will use the same chains to tie
the hands of your children… I will not be there… I’ll
abstain…
You thus ceased being human… you’ve become a pilgrim…
kneel deep before inanimate political icons begging for
alms… You do not ask for much… a piece of bread… a place
under the open sun… to be able to sing, even if the verses
are enclaved in low tunes… full of sadness and misery… just
like your wounded pride that they bribe with government
funds along with your conscience…in Euros, in dollars, its
irrelevant… You will have lost your true worth long before
they have bought you…
I have past many times through the trail of tears… with
injuries on my body and ashes on my hair… Thus I learned to
walk on two as a man… I fear no more the cold on my bare
feet… Dry bread with dignity has more taste than the platter
of kings … No, my heart is not made of plastic…my dreams are
not lost in the mist… The coin is no counterfeit… this world
does not belong to the satraps… it belongs to me and you… I
have seen the trail of tears, it is as clear and white as a
snow path … Our ancestors have walk down that road … we will
do likewise… our descendants will also follow the same path…
but, I tell you, it is a white path, and we will endure…
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Tony
“Night Eagle” Angastiniotis -from his website
http://fcms.emu.edu.tr/tony/ Email:
peacewalk@hotmail.com
Peace activist, journalist and
documentarist. Turning point to his career was in
2004 when he produced the controversial documentary
“Voice of Blood” exposing crimes committed by his
own community, Greek Cypriot, against the Turkish
Cypriots in 1974. What was for some an act of
acknowledgment and apology to promote
reconciliation, for others was an act of treason.
His book “Trapped in the Green Line” has become one
of the most popular books in the north side of the
island for the encouragement of peace. Circulation
of the book in the south side was not possible
through main stream distributors and bookshops. Tony
often slandered by local media without given the
equal opportunity to defend himself. His documentary
was never shown by any TV station in the South and
he has been a recipient of many death threats by
Greek nationalists. Today he is teaching “Peace
Journalism” at Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta and is a writer in Afrika newspaper.
His Work today is more focused on bringing awareness
about the Genocide of 50,000 native children
murdered in the Residential schools of Canada. Tony
demands the opening of the mass graves and a
reasonable compensation to be given to all survivors
of the Residential Schools.
Tony is a member of the United Cherokee Nation and
was appointed Clan Chief by the Elders on the 10th
of October 2007, and considers this position the
greatest honor a person can receive, but also a
great responsibility not to be taken lightly. His
spiritual believes are rooted in the Cherokee
spiritual ways known as the White Path. His native
name, Night Eagle, was given to him by his spiritual
mother and elder of the Cree nation, Morning Star.
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read above, visit this
Website from Cyprus
to read more from Tony “Night Eagle” Angastiniotis. ~ Stone
Woman |
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Other articles by Tony “Night Eagle” Angastiniotis-
[ Like the Rainbow ] [ Trail of Tears ] [ Morning Star ] |
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Updated December 7, 2007
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