Women's March ♀️Anthem by MILCK🎼"I Can't Keep Quiet"

These Women Practiced

This Amazing Song Online

 Performed it During the 

Women's March on Washington 2017

This video showcases an inspiring group of women singing a poignant song called “I Can’t Keep Quiet” during the Jan 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington.
It was written by the very talented Los Angeles musician MILCK, who led an acappella group in song as they walked around the D.C. area for the grassroots march, which was attended by an estimated half a million people.
“The #ICANTKEEPQUIET project is dedicated to celebrating our unique voices and identities, in an effort to break the cycles of oppression perpetuated by today’s media,” the website for the song/project states.

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These women are from different states and never met till today. 

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They practiced this song online. 
I was crying the whole time I filmed this. 

Show them some love. #WomensMarch #ANTHEM #Icantkeepquiet #TogetherWeRise

MILCK - "Quiet"  -  Published on Jan 16, 2017
As a survivor of anorexia, abuse, and depression, I can say that I have let the overwhelming pressures of filling media/society's expectations of "how a woman should be" overwhelm and silence my inner voices - without even realizing I was doing it. Until... I just couldn't breathe anymore. As I live more days on this planet now, I can say with full confidence that there are no standards or rules worth crushing our soul bones to fit into. Life gets better when we just... let it out. I hope you enjoy, and feel empowered or comforted after watching.  

If you see some of yourself in this video, please share and pass the word on.   Much love to you. 

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Lyrics
“Quiet”
Written by MILCK and AG
Put on your face	Cuz no one knows me no one ever will
Know your place	if I don’t say something, take that dry blue pill
Shut up and smile	they may see that monster, they may run away
Don’t spread your legs	But I have to do this, do it anyway
I could do that	I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
	I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
But no one knows me no one ever will	A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
if I don’t say something, if I just lie still	Oh I can’t keep quiet
Would I be that monster, scare them all away
If I let the-em hear what I have to say	Let it out Let it out   Let it out now
	There’ll be someone who understands
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh	Let it out Let it out   Let it out now
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh	Must be someone who’ll understand
A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh	Let it out Let it out   Let it out now
	There’ll be someone who understands
I can’t keep quiet For anyone Anymore	Let it out Let it out   Let it out now
	I can’t keep quiet

SECOND DAY - Woke up to 2.5 million views! 

Hello world 
I'm a film and commercial director (www.almaharel.com) and was in the march to support women of all races around the world coming together and get heard. I did not know these women and the artist. I now found out she goes under the name of MILCK (Icantkeepquiet.org) and that she gathered women from all around the country to sing this #Anthem at the #WomensMarch . 
They practiced it online using Skype and they only met once before the march. Some met that day for the first time! I was lucky or sent (depending on your preference) to stumble upon her. My phone's battery died from the cold and I was lost and with out my friends who were back stage. I was wondering around trying to navigate the incredible crowds when I found my self this pocket of space around these women. When they started singing, I checked on my phone frustrated that it's dead and it suddenly sprung back to life... :) hence missing the beginning. This song and it's sentiment made me cry tears of relief the whole time I was filming it. The beauty and the harmony of their voices captured for me how women can come together to find their voice. I find it healing and empowering in the best possible way. 

No one can explain you the feeling of being surrounded by that number of women from every race who come together all around the world. 627 marches! #TOGETHERWERISE None of us are free until we are all free. This march was special because it accounted for all women of all races. Women of color and poor women are most likely to suffer more from this administration than anyone. Same goes for immigrants. We marched for people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Muslims, people with disabilities and all our communities that "are hurting and scared" .ALSO stop trying to tell us we don't know what's happening in the middle east... I am from the middle east and this song is for women everywhere. 

Stop dividing us.

HUGE GRATITUDE to the 3 WOMEN OF COLOR WHO ORGANIZED WOMEN'S MARCH @TamikaDMallory @lsarsour @msladyjustice1 and to Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta, Gloria Steinem and the millions of women who marched! Let me finish by posting all the lyrics for I CAN'T KEEP QUIET. Let's make it our #Anthem. I hope to sing it with you on our next march because WHEN WE HARMONIZE THEY CAN'T DIVIDE US.

#TogetherWeRise #OneWomansRiot #iCantkeepquiet

Original artist: MILCK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnex...

Support the artist: https://milckmusic.bandcamp.com/track...
Download: http://noisetrade.com/milck/quiet-dow...

Filmed by Alma Har'el, check out her twitter https://twitter.com/Almaharel/status/...

 

 

MILCK Performs "Quiet"
With GW Sirens and Capital Blend
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

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NPR - All Songs Considered 

Robin Hilton

The Los Angeles-based singer known as MILCK knew she wanted to do something memorable for the Women's March in Washington, D.C on Saturday. So she contacted a small group of other singers from across the country to coordinate a flash mob performance of MILCK's song "Quiet," an emotional rallying cry for self-empowerment and unity. The group of women rehearsed together via Skype and rendezvoused in D.C., where they performed a cappella versions of "Quiet" several times during the march.

Israeli director Alma Har'el captured part of one of the performances and posted it to her Twitter account and Facebook page, where it's accrued more than 8 million views.

The performance is unadorned and profoundly moving, capturing at least part of the mood that settled on the march, with a balance of defiance and love.

MILCK says she wrote the song as a way of exorcising her own history of physical and sexual abuse. "With this song, I feel like I'm finally allowing my truest inner self to be expressed," she said in a prepared statement announcing the song, which was officially released days before the weekend marches. "In this time of fear, propaganda and discrimination, it is critical for our individual and collective voices to be heard. With this song, I'm saying I am NOT the woman who is going to stay quiet where there are figures who promote oppression. I want to encourage others to give a voice to whatever they may have silenced, political or personal."

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/01/23/511186649/a-flash-mob-choir-at-the-womens-march-turned-this-unknown-song-into-an-anthem

Vax People💉Positive 4 Omicron👩‍⚕️What to do

With Omicron

Many Vaccinated Americans

Will at some Point Test Positive.

Here’s what to do.

By Derek Hawkins and Lindsey Bever

December 22, 2021 

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With the omicron variant spreading rapidly, the United States is all but certain to see a sharp rise in breakthrough coronavirus infections among vaccinated people. These cases were relatively rare in the pre-omicron days, but the new variant has shown an ability to slip past the body’s first line of immune defenses. That means many Americans who have gotten the shots will at some point test positive.

Coronavirus vaccines act like a shield against disease, not an impenetrable barrier, and they offer protection against the omicron variant. Health authorities say booster shots of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are the best defense against serious illness, providing robust protection against severe disease. Your likelihood of developing a breakthrough infection is lowest if you’ve gotten the additional shot. The initial two-shot vaccine regimen still offers protection, but it’s not as effective against the omicron variant without boosters.

If you do get a breakthrough infection, here’s some advice on how to navigate it.

What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus

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What to know

• What should I do if I test positive for the coronavirus?
• How long should I isolate or quarantine with a breakthrough infection?
• If others in my household are sick, too, can we be together?
• How can I treat breakthrough covid-19 at home? What supplies should I have on hand?
• How long will I be contagious?
• Do I need to test negative before rejoining the community?

• Should I ask my doctor about coronavirus therapies?
• What should I do if my symptoms become more serious?

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What should I do if I test positive for the coronavirus?

While some breakthrough cases are asymptomatic, experts say most tend to bring mild to moderate symptoms. A cough, a sore throat, muscle aches and a low fever are common, but keep in mind that breakthrough symptoms don’t always resemble the version of covid-19 unvaccinated people get. Some patients report headaches, nasal congestion and sneezing — signs of illness more typically associated with colds or allergies.

When you’re feeling sick, or when you think you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus, the most important thing you can do from the get-go is to get tested. Laboratory-based polymerase chain reaction tests, or PCR tests, are most accurate, but at-home tests do a good job detecting symptomatic cases, too.

“Even if you think it’s just allergies, it would be best for you to go ahead and get a covid test and make sure you don’t have it before you go to work or school or church, because those symptoms can be very mild,” said S. Wesley Long, medical director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist hospital.

Coronavirus or covid-19 symptoms range from mild to severe. They’re most likely to be similar to a regular cold, the flu or seasonal allergies. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post)

A positive test, whether done at home, in a doctor’s office or at a testing center, should be taken seriously, said Rob Murphy, an infectious-disease expert at Northwestern University.

Whether you have symptoms or not, you should first contact your health-care provider to determine the next steps. If you tested positive with a rapid test at home, a doctor may order a lab-based test for confirmation. Depending on your medical history, the doctor may recommend at-home care or clinical treatment.

You should also contact family members, friends, colleagues and anyone else you’ve had close contact with and tell them you have the coronavirus.

From there, follow the isolation recommendations from health officials (more on that below).

At-home coronavirus tests: When to take them, how to get them and more

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How long should I isolate or quarantine with a breakthrough infection?

If you don’t have any symptoms but have tested positive for the coronavirus, you should isolate from others for 10 full days, beginning the day after you took the test. If you develop symptoms during that time, you must start the clock over, according to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If you are symptomatic, start the 10-day period after first developing symptoms, the CDC said.

There’s no doubt it can be tough for some people to isolate, particularly when there are multiple people under one roof. Murphy recommended using a separate bedroom and bathroom if possible and sanitizing high-touch surfaces if you have to share. He also advised wearing a mask and encouraging others in the house to do the same, staying at least six feet from other people and pets and, when weather permits, opening windows for ventilation.

The CDC also recommends avoiding sharing personal items such as dishes, utensils and towels.

While isolation is for people who have been infected, quarantine is for those who have been only exposed and possibly infected. People who have come into close contact with an infected person may need to quarantine. The CDC defines close contact as being within six feet for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period.

 Those who have not been fully vaccinated should quarantine for a full 14 days after their last exposure to the person with the coronavirus, according to the CDC. Those who are fully vaccinated do not need to quarantine unless they develop symptoms, but they should get tested five to seven days after exposure and wear a mask indoors in public places for two weeks after exposure or until receiving a negative test result, the CDC said.

Omicron is the fifth coronavirus variant of concern and is spreading rapidly around the world. Here’s what we know. (Luis Velarde/The Washington Post)

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 If others in my household are sick, too, can we be together?

Yes, assuming everyone in the household has contracted the virus, there’s no longer a need to separate from them, experts said.

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How can I treat breakthrough covid-19 at home? What supplies should I have on hand?

Many people with breakthrough infections may not need any special care. There’s a good chance your symptoms will clear in a few days. But if you are uncomfortable, some at-home and over-the-counter remedies might help take the edge off.

Sterling N. Ransone, a family physician in Deltaville, Va., and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, recommends getting a thermometer and a pulse oximeter, the fingertip device that measures oxygen in your blood. These can help you send valuable information to your doctor if your symptoms worsen. “If they can get me those kinds of numbers, I can give them much better advice on what we can do,” Ransone said.

Acetaminophen can help relieve aches and pains, and cold medications with expectorant can loosen up chest congestion. But it’s important to note that these will alleviate symptoms only temporarily — they will not get rid of the virus faster. Consult your doctor before taking them, follow the dosage recommendations on the label, and make sure they don’t interfere with any other medications you might be taking.

Electrolyte fluids such as Gatorade and Pedialyte can ease symptoms and prevent you from becoming dehydrated. It is good to have a few of these in your fridge.

It is also worth keeping extra masks handy. N95s, KN95s and surgical masks are now easy to order online.

Putting together a kit with these items can save you a trip to the store if you do end up getting sick. “We have everything ready, so if we were to start feeling ill we could go home and we’ve already preplanned,” Ransone said. “We don’t risk exposing our friends and neighbors.”

Masks and covid-19: Explaining the latest guidance

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How long will I be contagious?

You are considered contagious during the entire 10-day isolation period. Although it’s unlikely, if symptoms such as a cough or fever persist past that point you may still be contagious, said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern’s Robert J. Havey MD Institute for Global Health.

“With these breakthroughs, the whole clinical course is so mild that many of them pretty much recover in a day or two and they’re just waiting to get out of isolation,” he said.

Murphy said it may take a while for a loss of taste and smell to return, but that does not mean you can still spread the virus.

Do I need to test negative before rejoining the community?

No. Once you hit the 10-day mark, you should be fine to commingle again, as long as your symptoms are improving and you’ve gone 24 hours without a fever without using fever-reducing medication. You may still test positive after this point, but health officials say you are not contagious.

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Should I ask my doctor about coronavirus therapies?

Yes. If you are vaccinated, you’re probably going to bounce back from a case of covid-19 without medical intervention. But it can’t hurt to ask, especially if you have any conditions that put you at higher risk for severe illness.

That said, our armory of tools for combating covid-19 is changing. The omicron variant has hobbled the use of monoclonal antibodies, laboratory-made molecules that excelled against the other variants. Only one monoclonal antibody treatment, sotrovimab, is expected to work against the omicron variant, and it’s not easy to get.

Other new treatments will become available soon. Federal regulators Wednesday authorized an antiviral drug from Pfizer that appears to reduce the risk of severe illness in high-risk patients when it is administered in the first few days of symptoms. Merck has developed a similar drug that was authorized a day later.

Overall, experts emphasize that vaccines and booster shots are still the best defense. “If you’re counting on monoclonals instead of getting vaccinated,” said Long, of Houston Methodist, “it’s time to get vaccinated so your body can go and make its own, more effective antibodies.”

What should I do if my symptoms become more serious?

If your symptoms get noticeably worse after a few days, call your doctor. You may need clinical treatment.

Trouble breathing is an immediate cause for concern, said Ransone, the family physician. “If they cough so much they can’t catch their breath, or they’re so short-winded they can’t get a whole sentence out, that’s something that needs to be evaluated in person,” he said.

Other signs of an infection becoming more severe include a temperature moving above 102 degrees, confusion and blue coloration in the face.

If you feel seriously ill and you can’t reach your doctor quickly, head to the nearest emergency room, experts said. Ask a friend or family member to drive you if possible, but note that everyone in the vehicle should be wearing a mask. If nobody is available, don’t take public transportation, which could expose more people — just call 911.

“If you need medical care, you shouldn’t delay,” said Amesh Adalja of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Call an ambulance.”

• Derek Hawkins is a reporter covering national and breaking news.
  
• Lindsey Bever is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post, covering national news with an emphasis on health. She was previously a reporter at the Dallas Morning News.
  

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«Home»📜 by Warsan Shire

« Home »

Warsan Shire

« No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark »

« Home	by Warsan Shire
no one leaves home unless	the
home is the mouth of a shark	go home blacks
you only run for the border	refugees
when you see the whole city running as well	dirty immigrants
your neighbors running faster than you	asylum seekers
breath bloody in their throats	sucking our country dry
the boy you went to school with	niggers with their hands out
who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory	they smell strange
is holding a gun bigger than his body	savage
you only leave home	messed up their country and now they want
when home won’t let you stay.	to mess ours up
no one leaves home unless home chases you	how do the words
fire under feet	the dirty looks
hot blood in your belly	roll off your backs
it’s not something you ever thought of doing	maybe because the blow is softer
until the blade burnt threats into	than a limb torn off
your neck	or the words are more tender
and even then you carried the anthem under	than fourteen men between
your breath	your legs
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet	or the insults are easier
sobbing as each mouthful of paper	to swallow
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.	than rubble
you have to understand,	than bone
that no one puts their children in a boat	than your child’s body
unless the water is safer than the land	in pieces.
no one burns their palms	i want to go home,
under trains	but home is the mouth of a shark
beneath carriages	home is the barrel of the gun
no one spends days and nights	and no one would leave home
in the stomach of a truck	unless home chased you to the shore
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled	unless home told you
means something more than journey.	to quicken your legs
no one crawls under fences	leave your clothes behind
no one wants to be beaten	crawl through the desert
pitied	wade through the oceans
no one chooses refugee camps	drown
or strip searches where your	save
body is left aching	be hunger
or prison,	beg
because prison is safer	forget pride
than a city of fire	your survival is more important
and one prison guard	no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
in the night	saying —
is better than a truckload	leave,
of men who look like your father	run away from me now
no one could take it	i don't know what i’ve become
no one could stomach it	but i know that anywhere
no one skin would be tough enough	is safer than here

In an interview after she won the Brunel University African Poetry Prize, Warsan Shire was asked to talk about her sense of commitment to substance and urgent subject matter in her work. In response, Shire said:
I’m from Somalia where there has been a war going on for my entire life. I grew up with a lot of horror in the backdrop – a lot of terrible things that have happened to people who are really close to me, and to my country, and to my parents; so it’s in the home and it’s even in you, it’s on your skin and it’s in your memories and your childhood. And my relatives and my friends and my mother’s friends have experienced things that you can’t imagine, and they’ve put on this jacket of resiliency and a dark humor. But you don’t know what they’ve been victims of, or what they’ve done to other people. Them being able to tell me, and then me writing it, it’s cathartic, being able to share their stories, even if it is something really terrible, something really tragic. Sometimes I’m telling other people’s stories to remove stigma and taboo, so that they don’t have to feel ashamed; sometimes you use yourself as an example.

 

"Home"

Warsan Shire
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https://youtu.be/nI9D92Xiygo

 

Home is the Barrel of the Gun
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https://youtu.be/ybTM-aaJxS0

« Home »   par Warsan Shire	Traduction : Paul Tanguy.
Personne ne quitte sa maison à moins	Rentrez chez vous
Que sa maison ne soit devenue la gueule d’un requin	Les noirs    Les réfugiés
Tu ne cours vers la frontière	Les sales immigrés
Que lorsque toute la ville court également	Les demandeurs d’asile
Avec tes voisins qui courent plus vite que toi	Qui sucent le sang de notre pays
Le garçon avec qui tu es allée à l’école	Ils sentent bizarre
Qui t’a embrassée, éblouie, une fois derrière la vieille usine	Sauvages
Porte une arme plus grande que son corps	Ils ont fait n’importe quoi chez eux et maintenant
Tu pars de chez toi	Ils veulent faire pareil ici
Quand ta maison ne te permet plus de rester.	Comment les mots
Tu ne quittes pas ta maison si ta maison ne te chasse pas	Les sales regards
Du feu sous tes pieds	Peuvent te glisser sur le dos
Du sang chaud dans ton ventre	Peut-être parce leur souffle est plus doux
C’est quelque chose que tu n’aurais jamais pensé faire	Qu’un membre arraché
Jusqu’à ce que la lame ne soit	Ou parce que ces mots sont plus tendres
Sur ton cou	Que quatorze hommes entre
Et même alors tu portes encore l’hymne national	Tes jambes
Dans ta voix	Ou ces insultes sont plus faciles
Quand tu déchires ton passeport dans les toilettes d’un aéroport	À digérer
En sanglotant à chaque bouchée de papier	Qu’un os
Pour bien comprendre que tu ne reviendras jamais en arrière	Que ton corps d’enfant
Il faut que tu comprennes	En miettes
Que personne ne pousse ses enfants sur un bateau	Je veux rentrer chez moi
À moins que l’eau ne soit plus sure que la terre ferme	Mais ma maison est comme la gueule d’un requin
Personne ne se brule le bout des doigts	Ma maison, c’est le baril d’un pistolet
Sous des trains	Et personne ne quitte sa maison
Entre des wagons	À moins que ta maison ne te chasse vers le rivage
Personne ne passe des jours et des nuits dans l’estomac d’un camion	À moins que ta maison ne dise
En se nourrissant de papier journal à moins que les kilomètres parcourus	À tes jambes de courir plus vite
Soient plus qu’un voyage	De laisser tes habits derrière toi
Personne ne rampe sous un grillage	De ramper à travers le désert
Personne ne veut être battu	De traverser les océans
Pris en pitié	Noyé
Personne ne choisit les camps de réfugiés	Sauvé
Ou la prison	Avoir faim
Parce que la prison est plus sure	Mendier
Qu’une ville en feu	Oublier sa fierté
Et qu’un maton	Ta survie est plus importante
Dans la nuit	Personne ne quitte sa maison jusqu’à ce que ta maison
Vaut mieux que toute une cargaison	soit cette petite voix dans ton oreille  Qui te dit
D’hommes qui ressemblent à ton père	Pars d’ici tout de suite
Personne ne vivrait ça	Je ne sais pas ce que je suis devenue
Personne ne le supporterait	Mais je sais que n’importe où
Personne n’a la peau assez tannée	Ce sera plus sûr qu’ici

 

* « Home », par Warsan Shire (poétesse britannico-somalienne), 2010. Traduction : Paul Tanguy.

Amazing Poem by Warsan Shire

Video by me, Music by Renato Folgado

All rights reserved.

Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally – including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, North America and Kenya- and her début book, ‘TEACHING MY MOTHER HOW TO GIVE BIRTH’ (flipped eye), was published in 2011. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Magma and Poetry Review and in the anthology ‘The Salt Book of Younger Poets’ (Salt, 2011). She is the current poetry editor at SPOOK magazine. In 2012 she represented Somalia at the Poetry Parnassus, the festival of the world poets at the Southbank, London. She is a Complete Works II poet. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Warsan is also the unanimous winner of the 2013 Inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize.

Warsan Shire Reads her Poetry
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https://youtu.be/1gmsEsu1DaQ

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