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Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

NEW Song – Treći Maj (The Third of May)

May 3, 2023 refers to the Vladislav Ribnikar school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia, where a 13-year-old student killed nine students and a school security guard; six others were injured. The tragedy shocked Serbia and was followed by public mourning, protests, and a government disarmament campaign.

Lyrics:

Treći Maj (The Third of May)

Verse 1
Na zidu piše: Predaj oružje
The wall cannot carry all the grief.
A city holds its breath in silence,
counting names like broken beads.

Schoolyard bells and empty hallways,
flowers trembling in the rain,
the Spirit cries in a language
that nobody can explain.

Chorus
Predaj oružje — lay it down, lay it down.
So many children buried in this town.
Razgovarajte sa decom — hear them now, hear them now
at the altars where we bow.

Verse 2
Na vratima piše: Razgovarajte sa decom
speak to your children while they’re near.
Ask what shadows walk beside them,
where their bright joy turns to fear.

Not every wound is seen by daylight,
silent tears without a sound.
Some are present in the classroom
while their hearts are underground.

Chorus
Predaj oružje — lay it down, lay it down.
Too many children buried in this town.
Razgovarajte sa decom — hear them now, hear them now
at the altars where we bow.

Bridge
If we only shout after thunder,
if we only weep after the flames,
then the stones will learn our prayers
where we’ve carved our children’s names.

So open every locked-up room,
open every frightened hand.
Let the living be our shrine,
let compassion rule the land.

Final Chorus
Predaj oružje — lay it down, lay it down.
Let no more hatred wear a crown.
Razgovarajte sa decom — hear them say, hear them say.
Let love be our king today.

Outro
Na zidu piše: Predaj oružje.
Na srcu piše: hear their quiet call.
Razgovarajte sa decom —
Talk to your children.
Talk to them all.