Hie everyonel need your help.
l don't follow politics too much, but when a leader has gone too far mistreating his own people, or just plain delirious l know it.Any ideas on what we can do to put pressure in other African governments to put heat on Mugabe to step down. l'm frustrated just like most people. Would a peaceful demonstration in front of the African embassies in Washington DC do something. Maybe calling them, faxing them???? l mean doing something that would show we also want to see things change for the better. Please let us put our heads together, so share your ideas. l know some of you would think l'm crazy, but l think we need to step up. l have cried enough, and it's not helping me, l think it will be better crying in front of these embassies, and it will be better if we are many.
What do you think? Please suggest something we can do.We can choose to be silent, and stay at our homes and enjoy the peace we have here in America. But l think, if we sit down and put our heads together, we can come up with a peaceful way of showing our support to our fellow Zimbabweans, who are suffering back home.
l have seen many communities stand up, demonstrate if need be when there is a serious issue at hand, and l think our situation back home needs us to take some action and talk to people who can be a link in pressuring the Mugabe regime to step down.
Well, if you have any ideas or thoughts, l welcome them, email me or call me.
Thanks and God bless
Sick and tired. shlabangana@yahoo.com
Chicago Illinois.
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE ZIM'S RESCUE GENERATION.
Dear Compatriots,
I write to you after a long while of inaction. My heart is bleeding as is our nation. This has been a long while characterized by some inexplicable confusion , evident lack of commitment, mind ,heart , soul and character on our part; and the now familiar nearly-men approach to our crisis as a nation. Admittedly, some of you I might have met and talked to as lately as last weekend at church or at the soccer field or at the grocery store. I also know that I probably have not made one-on-one discussions with a few of you. If you will allow me we sure can arrange for that in the near future.
To those that I have never met and or discussed with the matter referred to hereunder, I apologize for invading your space and privacy. Please, bear with me for I believe, the troubles of our nation cannot be resolved without your direct participation. I ,therefore, invite you to read ahead.
To those that were expecting, but never received any periodic updates from the team that communicated with you earlier in the year, of which I was and am still a part, I also apologize. That is a weakness ..ineffectiveness and weak performances which only you all and us can resolve, and as a community we can move the agenda of our nation forward.
You all know about the tragic situation in Zimbabwe. It is not ending soon, right? You all anguish and experience sadness and excessive pain regarding everything Zimbabwe right now. Yes, you are right! Zimbabwe is not only where most of us were born, our parents and ancestors were born there too. Our dear brothers and sisters, and oh yes , even our friends live there too! In those terrible and extremely difficult conditions that is where they are everyday. Sad. And, Yes, the pain is real and genuine.
You and I have a choice in this life regarding the unfolding events in Zimbabwe. We can continue to sit back ,watch and feel the pain and talk about it. We can decide to close our pain sensitivities and just imagine it is not happening , and that all is normal in our country .This choice is a fickle as it is fake because we like to enjoy, to be happy, to talk about and identify with good names, good things and good times. In our lives we can never be happy when our character and dignity as a nation is under severe assault. Never. Or we can decide to take a different albeit costly route, and that is, ACT upon this painful situation and rescue our nation. The last option is not cheap, neither is it easy. It requires your dedication, commitment and selflessness; and it requires your compassion to this once-great nation of Zimbabwe and its peoples.
Which one of these is your choice, my friend?
We cannot let the evil decimate our nation while we watch. It is wrong and unacceptable. Our generation can and has to do something concrete to reverse the decadence, death , dictatorship and disease that have set our country on fire. We are each other's keeper. We are the custodians of Zimbabwe, and we owe our nation and its peoples unending love, loyalty and allegiance even now when the dictatorship has scorched much of what we called home to the ground. Can you hear the crying voice? I cry because I have to appeal to you to recognize that alone, you or I, cannot do much. But, together we can achieve all that we set and agree to do . Zimbabwe is waiting for its own sons and daughters to come to its rescue. Yes, God, is waiting for us to obey him regarding the condition of this great people of Zimbabwe! We have an abiding responsibility regarding this matter.
Should Zimbabwe count on you? Yes. We can stop fearing our own shadows and do something positive. We can also stop attending to ridiculous, low-class and divisive gossip; and recognize that the enemy of Zimbabwe wants us divided for him to continue to prosper. We can choose to be the generation that can restore Zimbabwe to it former glory. We can chose to stop winging and whinning about our nation's poverty death and destruction, and boldly go where noone has gone before and ACT in Zimbabwe's rescue mission.Yes We can. I know We can do it.
Please respond to this message as soon as you can. We need to arrange a meeting of all committed Zimbabweans to discuss the way forward..soon. Talking from the American backyard has not brought any meaningful results for Zimbabwe, and it sure is time to set the living strategy for our nation .
Thank you for your attention.
Allen Bako
MDC Indiana
--John 9: 35-36; Walk in the light while you still can!
The brave man is not he one who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela.
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