In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Dawn of A New Day!
Citizen concerns respected and not neglected -- heard and heeded and not disrespected. No 7-Eleven in our Historic area next to Florida School for the Deaf and Blind and across from our library, carousel and Old Waterworks, at a failing intersection. Restoration of artists and musicians to their rightful place in our downtown, with negotiations underway. Rodman Dam to be torn down, allowing the Ocklawaha River to flow freely once again. What a wonderful world we live in -- citizens organizing and winning victory after victory. Viva!
Shelley and Celli...
ReplyDeleteAnd these words shall then become
Like Oppression's thundered doom
Ringing through each heart and brain,
Heard again - again - again -
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
When the people awaken,
The gangsters start shakin!
We shall overcome!