I WAS KNACKERED ....................
Knackered after doing five x two hour wild wacky unique
Greenbelt 'Rolling Magazines Programmes'
with 2000 young humans in a big BIG TOP
during the Festival week-end ......
I stumbled into the late night big top
where Bruce Cockburn was
quietly strumming his guitar and talking to us .....
He was talking about the time he was visiting a refugee camp
carrying with him life sustaining suitcases of drugs.
He had brought the only drugs they had
into the camp to meet their massive need ......
Then - as he was there,
bringing aid and support to humans living on the edge of survival ....
... the helicopter gun-ships came and attacked the camp.
Then he then he sung his song -
'If I had a rocket launcher" ......
...... and I wept.
Find it if you have't got it
Just listen to it.
I was leading a youth work project in East London at this time
- working with street gangs.
I felt the same oppression there
doing that work as Bruce Cockburn was describing so powerfully ......
There in that big top, in a safe environment,
I felt the oppression which I was living under in a different context.
It cut me to the soul.
It inspired me to kick - raise up out of my tiredness -
be refreshed and renewed and
determined to work with people on the underside
of the Thatcher led society we were in at that time.
Greenbelt saved my life.
Greenbelt was the instrument, the meeting place,
where God placed his finger print on my soul.
Thanx to you both.
pip wilson bhp
