Will Poetry Save EU Aid?
Today, President Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, is expected to make another proposal for cuts to the seven-year EU budget and lifesaving development aid is on the chopping block.
As campaigners, we’re used to thinking creatively. In times of urgency, we pull out all the stops. That’s how we landed on our most recent member action: send a haiku to Herman Van Rompuy, asking him to protect EU Aid.
President Van Rompuy is a fan of poetry; in fact, he’s published a volume of his own haikus. A self-described “politician haiku-poet”, we’ve decided to send our critical message – protect the Commission’s proposal for Heading 4 and leave the EDF untouched – through poetry.
So please send your message to him on twitter at @euHvR
Here’s one to get you started:
.@euHvR: This fateful morning/ you stand by the guillotine/ protect the poorest #lifesaver
T.S. Eliot said that poetry can communicate before it’s understood. We’re hoping he’s right.
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13/11/2012 at 1:08 pm
To be a leader,
One must first dream then act out,
Protect the poorest!!
13/11/2012 at 2:32 pm
EU afford War
not life saving aid anymore
V-R are you sure?
20/11/2012 at 6:43 pm
Dear Stuart,
Sorry, I cannot support this.Vaccinating 3rd World children kills far more than it protects
Check Dr Kalokerinos’ extensive experience with Aboriginee children where he reduced the huge death rate under vaccination to almost zero. He stopped all vaccination, and replaced it with IV Vitamin C or at times just oral doses.Malnourished children are in no position to
withstand vaccine assault by toxins.Go to Whale.to the most informative site on the truth about vaccines.
It really annoys me when sites ask for support, which I will always give where I can. and yet writes under the cover of a “no reply” email address. It is likely to drive me elsewhere.
John Ivens