"Heads against the wall"...

They went to Jerusalem,and their text has been carved on the partition wall

Tuesday 10 May 2011, by Gérard C , François Nutchey

Young people studying in a technical high school in Rezé ( near Nantes in the western part of France) are working for peace with their teachers.

Their idea was, with fellow partners of Abou Diss high school (in Jerusalem suburbs), to write a peaceful poem to be carved on the wall, as below:


Heads Against the Wall What are they waiting for All these men who don’t shout ? To be delivered like Some outlaws from prison? They don’t get no “Shalom” Only loathing and scorn. What are they hoping for These women who don’t laugh? For their soul to be freed? Their body, their spirit? They are begging “Salam” They get answered “rifle” Ô walls without skylines Instantly they can turn Habitations to cells Populations to flocks Countries and lands to jails Neighborhoods to ghettos. Illusory ramparts Not one of these bastions Or of their avatars Has fulfilled its design For sooner or later Peoples defeated them. Neither Hadrian’s wall Against the barbarians Nor the wall in Berlin, None ever killed the hope In a brighter future. Our heads against the wall Writing is our weapon Fierce is our struggle. Our words be to this fence Those Voltaire once issued Against the Bastille walls.

Four students Andréa, Clément, Gaëtan, Fakri with their teacher and town councillors went to Jerusalem at the begining of May , to bring this message on behalf also of their fellows Stéphane, Benjamin,Assyapaud, Quentin, Jérôme, Thomas, Loris et Yann.

And they wrote this poem on the wall in three languages: french, english and arabic.

This action received a financial aid from 4acg.

"Heads against the wall"...

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