A photo shared on social media; beds offered in homes. Bob Geldof’s offer to do the same thing on
radio. Politicians catch the change in mood, change their own attitude, and act
in accord.
A thousand or more people elect to disregard false promise
when their train journey doesn’t take them over the border. One man, with a
megaphone, entreats his fellow desperate not to submit but to get to their feet
and walk - and continues until they join him one by one.
The walking thousand –
this time on a busy motorway - continue in hope and then the buses come, take
them to a destination of hope.
In the early 1980’s I attended a Conference in Amsterdam,
titled The Spirit of Peace. The Assistant Secretary General of the UN told the
assembly that people work for years to get to the top of organisations where
they believe they will have power to change things. When they get there they
realise they are relatively powerless, come to realise the real power is back
where they came from.
The world depends on us.
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