Αν κάτι κατάφερε το SkalaTimes, είναι η εμπιστοσύνη και η επικοινωνία με τον κόσμο, με τους αναγνώστες μας, όλων των ηλικιών, κάτι για το οποίο χαιρόμαστε ιδιαίτερα.
Το πιο κάτω μας το έστειλε σήμερα μια 20χρονη αναγνώστρια μας, η φοιτήτρια Νεφέλη Έλληνα και αφορά το σημερινό αποτέλεσμα των εκλογών στις ΗΠΑ.
“Δεν είναι ποίημα, είναι διαμαρτυρία”.
Είτε διαφωνεί, είτε συμφωνεί κανείς με το μήνυμα του πιο κάτω, που έχει γράψει η Νεφέλη, είναι ενδιαφέρον (και ελπιδοφόρο) το ότι οι νέοι μας, οι φοιτητές μας, έχουν άποψη και θέση για το πολιτικοκοινωνικό γίγνεσθαι, την οποία υπερασπίζονται με στεντόρεια φωνή, μέσα από διαμαρτυρίες, πορείες ή… ποίηση!
If SkalaTimes has accomplished anything, it is the invaluable trust and communication we’ve built with our readers of all ages, something we celebrate. Today, we received a powerful message from one of our 20-year-old readers, student Nefeli Ellina, regarding the election results in the USA. “It’s not a poem, it’s a protest.” Whether one agrees or disagrees with Nefeli’s message, it’s inspiring and hopeful to witness our young people, our students, passionately forming and defending their opinions on political and social matters, using the impassioned mediums of protests, marches, and poetry! – SkalaTimes Team
AMERICAN ELECTIONS! NOT A POEM BUT A PROTEST!
by Nefeli Ellina
Χαίρεται, ονομάζομαι Νεφέλη Έλληνα, είμαι φοιτήτρια του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου είμαι 20 χρονών και σας έστειλα ενα email protest, κατα την Ακροδεξιά πολιτική του Trump και του θλιβερού αποτελέσματος των εκλογών στην Αμερική.
Ως νέα, ως φοιτήτρια, η οποία το καλοκαίρι που μας πέρασε φοίτησα για ενα summer semester στο πανεπιστήμιο της Οξφόρδης, μελετώντας αγγλική λογοτεχνία, κάνοντας φίλους κυρίως Αμερικανούς, ένιωσα την υποχρέωση να μιλήσω και να εκπροσωπήσω τις νέες και τους νέους της Κύπρου μας για ένα καλύτερο αύριο χωρίς διακρίσεις.
Για όλους τους συμφοιτητές μου απο την Αμερική και απο ολο τον κόσμο!
My name is Nefeli Ellina
I am a student at the university of Cyprus.
Studying literature in the English department. I am reaching out to talk about the American elections and their shameful outcome at in my opinion a very trusted paper, Skala Times. As the only Cypriot (but also Greek-speaking) student the past semester, who spent their summer at the university of Oxford studying literature, most of my friends were Americans. I am writing this for Raul and Giselle who saw an at first timid 19 year old eating, friendless, at the dining hall of Exeter college and decided to befriend and embrace her. For Raul and Giselle at the campus of Hanover, who have to fear for their rights, who have to fear for their lives under Trump’s America. Bright students now petrified by guns strolling in schools, bright students who in July were studying Shakespeare and Yeats in the Bodleian library.
This is not a poem but a protest:
America shame on you
Shame on you for being misinformed
Shame on you for being uneducated
Shame on you for being blatantly manipulated, ignorant, biased!
Shame on you for handing a felon the ultimate “get out of jail” free card.
Shame on you for giving a sex offender a pass,
A sex offender who will punish your mother your sister your wife for taking control over their own bodies!
Shame on you for allowing him to say “GRAB EM BY THE P*SSY” behind your Oval Office!
He was talking about your mother your sister your wife!
Shame on you who can’t admit!
Shame on you who are against all love
Shame on you who judge by colour
Shame on you for making the rich richer
Shame on you for degrading yourself
Eating the leftovers under your masters’ table for the cut of gas prices
Shame on you for choosing the friend of dictators!
Shame on you for being proud of it!
Shame on you for your so-called pacifist delusions!
Shame on you for Ukraine!
Shame on you for Palestine!
And above all shame on you
For getting offended by this alien abuse of the first amendment
Close your eyes bow down and try to pray.
Conjure the mercy of the God who’s word you’ve disfigured.
