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Any time to bring up uncle Bill’s “Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah” is generally a good one. So here we go. A poem for today’s world.

You can read a transcript here.
More spoken words by William Burroughs at UbuWeb.

With this gripping ad campaign Amnesty International of Switzerland wants to make people conscious about the fact that human rights are violated on a daily basis in different parts of the world. The slogan on the posters translates to It doesn’t happen here. But it’s happening now. It’s not an abstraction for the people involved. For them it’s harsh reality. The campaign is running now in cities across Switzerland and will end on 23 June.

More on the Swiss site of Amnesty International: French, German or Italian.