I tried to turn you on after the film tonight
To reply to all the friends I had ignored
But your buttons became pieces of a husband chopped up and reassembled beneath his wife
My fingers became the rapists degrading her above his dead body
And when I went to type hello the words ‘chewing gum’ came out
So I turned you off
Then I looked down and in my hands there was a phone
That will never be just a phone again
Author's Notes/Comments:
I watched blood in the mobile tonight, it is a documentry on the conflict minerals being mined in the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC). There is a scene in which a man who works for the UN is being interviewed unoffically (as just a person not a UN rep) and he describes how he met a woman who had been raped three times. The first time was in her village and the men cut her husband up piece by piece in front of her, than told her to assemble him, laid her down on him, and raped her on his body. They then asked if she had ever had chewing gum, and placed the tip of her husband's penis in her mouth and told her to chew...
my cell phone is an LG choclate...it is blue....
http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/
And to imagine...just one of
And to imagine...just one of many stories---and for some countries it has become 'just part of the scenery', as drive by shootings hardly bat an eye here in the States anymore.
The taste will never be forgotten for her.
...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "
:) do your part, be aware of
:) do your part, be aware of what you buy, write your company and ask them to do something, avoid companies that don't do something, if we all did this things would change
Much Love
Ashley
Disturbing...
Disturbing...
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indeed...was gonna but a new
indeed...was gonna but a new phone this week as my phone company is giving it to me for free...its a samsung so NOT gonna happen
Much Love
Ashley
Were those minerals being
Were those minerals being mined for Samsung?
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no for all ceel phone
no for all ceel phone companies but some are better than others at making sure their metals are conflict free
you can get more info here
http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/
Much Love
Ashley
Aweful Story
Horrible stories are the inhumane part of being human - stories of rape and having babies cut out or female genital removed to assure ethnic cleansing (tribal erasure) abound. War and power lead to all kinds of atrocities when there is no law. Ignorant insanity is the worst variety of mental dysfunction. Imagine the dreams, the nightmares, the bad dreams while awake - sad. ~~A~~
sad doesn't even cover it...
repulsive might start :(
concious consumption is a good way to start making it sad not repulsive
thanks for the read allets :)
Much Love
Ashley