Amardeep Singh: Poetry in the Protests -- Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

Amardeep Singh: Poetry in the Protests -- Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi Poetry in the Protests -- Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi [Cross-posted at Guernica ] Protest poetry and music sometimes rises to the surface during popular uprisings, crystallizing popular sentiments -- one thinks of Victor Jara in Chile, Nazim Hikmet in Turkey, Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Pakistan, or Woody Guthrie in the United States. At times like these, the right poetry and song doesn't merely describe how people are feeling; it can actually act as an intensifier that guides a protest movement, helping it spread and solidify. (Needless to say,

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