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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Seven Marched
Description: A poem by Joseph Monsour about the struggle by East Timorese for freedom and those that supported them in December 1975 when the Indonesian government ordered the invasion. The text is below.
Seven Marched
Unfurl the banner,
Move onto the street.
Only Seven,
But seven marched
It was a time of rage
Rage forgotten
People forgotten
Students had been there
Seen the people mass
Their eyes were alight
Hundreds of years of poverty
The shackles broken
Independence the banner
Revolution so near
Our own Cuba, our own Castro
Our own Guevara
Posters banners to all unions
Australia's Union of Students last...