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Friday 12 October 2012

We Will Not Be Denied

STRIKE! STRIKE!! STRIKE!!!

WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS.

WE WILL NOT BE DENIED!

We, the days of the month of February, absolutely REFUSE to countenance the DISCRIMINATION we have faced for centuries now.

What is this DISCRIMINATION?

We are as good a month as any, so we should have the same rights as any, and the same respect. BUT DO WE?

NO!

Look at the other months. Some of them have thirty days: April, June, September, November. Some are privileged to have a full thirty-one days, WITHOUT EARNING THOSE EXTRA DAYS BY DINT OF MERIT OR HARD WORK: January, March, May, July, August, October and December. WHY?

All February has is twenty-eight days; and to add further insult to injury WE ARE SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO 31-DAY MONTHS! 

We ask you:

WHAT KIND OF IN-YOUR-FACE APARTHEID IS THIS??

Sometimes, once every FOUR years, we are thrown ONE extra day as a temporary sop, like a bonus paid just before elections to buy our votes. And what do we gain after this bonus? Are we as rich as even the LEAST of the other states after this bonus?

No! A thousand times, NO!

It has got so bad that people say they like us because they have to work less since there are fewer of us, and still get the same salary. IS THIS NOT AN INSULT?

WHAT NEXT, WE ASK? Twenty-three-hour days?

It’s time to DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!

Accordingly, as of this moment, FEBRUARY IS ON STRIKE. 

There will be no Month of February, No work, No pay, No sports events, No Oscar awards, until our DEMANDS ARE MET.

We will picket your offices. We will launch a fast unto death. We will PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT WE CANNOT BE IGNORED.

We will SECURE OUR DEMANDS:

Take three days from other months and give them to us. We are not going to be satisfied any more with step-motherly attitudes. Give us the FULL COMPLEMENT of days. And as for your four-yearly bonus, YOU KNOW WHERE YOU CAN STICK IT.

And BEWARE:

While we shall make all efforts to keep our campaign non-violent, if our demands are not met, we shall have no alternative but to TAKE UP ARMS to secure our rights.

Be WARNED.

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