SOLIDARITY... what does it TRULY mean?

i don't understand, how one cannot connect THEIR struggle, to OTHER'S struggles...

when my sister suffers in another place, i should feel her.

when she is raped, and her child killed in front of her... i feel her pain.

when one, whom is like me, faces an atrocity that could easily have been me... i should be able to empathize with them... feel it as if it is me.

it COULD be me...

when one who is DIFFERENT from me... minutely, or significantly... and they are suffering... un-rightfully... they are being harmed, and it is at the hands, the POWER, or privilege of another, who is BENEFITING from that harm...

i should be feeling that... it is wrong...

if i were to see another being slaughtered in front of my face, being killed... being raped, violated, hurt... in pain... to see another's tears...

i SHOULD feel that...

it could just as easily be me...


NON-violence is the answer... in action...

in spirit, in heart, and intention...

i stand with my fellow beings, in solidarity...

almost always...


if they are struggling, from the actions of others, who are harming and/or exploiting them, for these other's benefit.. for more power, or money... or material wealth...

i stand and non-violently FIGHT... with moral courage... for the rights, and justice... of those who cannot, or are not given the space to live righteously, or simply... to be humans, to raise their families, to live sustainably...

that is TRUE solidarity.

that is TRUE activism...

grounded, honest, right, TOGETHER.

we are all equal from the judgement of nature...

ALL equal.

ONE LOVE i say... and i mean it.