This video from Britain is called EDL Nazi Wayne Baldwin EXPOSED.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Michael Rosen – For My Parents: September 3, 2011 Anti-EDL demo, Whitechapel
Thursday 07 February 2013
You Connie Ruby Isakofsky
From Globe Road in Bethnal Green
You Harold Rosen
From Nelson Street, Whitechapel
You Connie with your mother and father
From Romania and Poland
You Harold with your family from PolandYou Connie
You Harold
Your families working in the rag trade
Hats, caps, jackets and gowns
Hats, caps, jackets and gownsYou both saw Hitler on the Pathé News
You both saw Hitler blaming the Jews
You both collected for Spain,
Collecting for Spain
When Franco cameWhen round the tenements,
The whisper came
Mosley wants to march
Here, through the East EndSo what should it be?
To Trafalgar Square to support Spain:
No pasaran?Or to Gardiner’s Corner to support Whitechapel
They shall not pass.Round the tenements
The whisper came
Fight here in Whitechapel
The whisper came:
Winning here
We support
Spain there.These are the streets where we live
These are the streets where we go to school
These are the streets where we workThey shall not pass.
You Connie
You Harold
Went to Gardiner’s Corner
You went to Cable Street
You piled chairs on the barricades
The mounted police charged you
A stranger took you indoors
To escape a beating
And thousands
Hundreds of thousands came here
Fighting Mosley
Supporting Spain
Thinking of GermanyAnd
Mosley did not pass.You Connie
You Harold
Said, today the bombs on Guernica in Spain
Tomorrow the bombs on London here.
And you were bombed
The same planes, the same bombs
Landing in the same streets
Where you had said
They shall not pass
And the bodies
Piled up across the world
Million after million after million after million
You Connie, your cousins in Poland
Taken to camps
Wiped out
You Harold, your uncles and aunts in France and Poland
Taken to camps
Wiped out.But you Connie, my mother
You Harold, my father
You survived
You lived
We were born
We grewYou mother
You father
Told us these things
I write these things
And today,
I tell you these things
We remember here together
Thanks to you
And we say:
They shall not pass.Michael Rosen is the former Children’s Laureate and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4‘s regular magazine programme Word of Mouth. The author of nearly 150 books, Rosen also campaigns on issues of education, austerity and Palestine, often tackling them on his blog: http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter.
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What words, what power, music written about grief and courage and heroism what a great gift such poetry is to us all… so moving, so humbling… thank you
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Indeed Valerie, a great poem by Michael Rosen. He wrote nearly 150 books, and still managed to keep the level high.
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