{"id":27664,"date":"2026-01-19T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27664"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:43:31","slug":"on-martin-luther-king-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27664","title":{"rendered":"On Martin Luther King Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27665 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-Martin-Luther-King-Day.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-Martin-Luther-King-Day.jpeg 1000w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-Martin-Luther-King-Day-300x157.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-Martin-Luther-King-Day-768x401.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\":1wl\" class=\"Am aiL Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" tabindex=\"1\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" spellcheck=\"false\" aria-label=\"Message Body\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-owns=\":1z9\" aria-controls=\":1z9\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>On Martin Luther King Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How far we are from the dreams,<br \/>\nToday more than ever,<br \/>\nInjustice strikes hard,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the phone I hear the broken words of a woman,<br \/>\n&#8220;Her husband was arrested while on his way to work,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Show me your papers, where are you from?'&#8221;<br \/>\nThe children are crying too,<br \/>\nThey cry for their mother&#8217;s sadness,<br \/>\nBecause they still don&#8217;t know that their father won&#8217;t return,<br \/>\nWhat do the workers have?<br \/>\nWhat do the poor have?<br \/>\nWhat do we, the &#8220;nobodies,&#8221; have?<\/p>\n<p>The world should belong to those who build it.<\/p>\n<p>Where are you from?<br \/>\nI am from the world, Sir!!<\/p>\n<p>(By Marianella Funes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*****<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>En el d\u00eda de Martin Luther K.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Que lejos estamos de los sue\u00f1os,<br \/>\nHoy mas que nunca,<br \/>\nLa injusticia golpea con fuerza,<\/p>\n<p>Por el tel\u00e9fono escucho las palabras quebradas de una mujer,<\/p>\n<p>-Su esposo fue arrestado mientras se dirigia a trabajar,<br \/>\n\u201c show me your papers, where are you from ? &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>los ni\u00f1os lloran tambi\u00e9n,<br \/>\nLloran por la tristeza de su madre,<br \/>\nPorque aun desconocen que su padre no volver\u00e1,<br \/>\nQue tienen los obreros?<br \/>\nQue tienen los pobres ?<br \/>\nQue tenemos los \u201c nadie \u201c ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El mundo deveria ser de quien lo construye.<\/p>\n<p>Where are you from ?<br \/>\nSoy del mundo Se\u00f1or !!<\/p>\n<p>(Por Marianella Funes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Martin Luther King Day How far we are from the dreams, Today more than ever, Injustice strikes hard, Over the phone I hear the broken words of a woman, &#8220;Her husband was arrested while on his way to work, &#8216;Show me your papers, where are you from?&#8217;&#8221; The children are crying too, They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6832],"class_list":["post-27664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-marianella-funes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27664"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27674,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions\/27674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}