“Why We Sit Vigil”
Back in 2006, members of the Women of Inspiration shared their difficulties sleeping at night. Their physical pain and worries were keeping them awake. Rather than lying sleepless alone at home, the women decided to be sleepless together, where they could make their worries known to the government and the public. The Women continue to be sleepless, 15 years later, and hold vigil to bring awareness to the consequences of workplace injuries and ask for justice for injured workers!
Injured Workers are not sleeping at night! How can our elected representatives?
Injured workers are not sleeping
Injured workers are not sleeping at night
Injured workers are not sleeping
we are awake with our pain,
we are awake,
yet we are watching out
waiting
Politicians may not be sleeping as well
they know we are wide-awake
and they sit on our vulnerable lives
we are prey of their greed
yet we are awake, fighting for our lives
fighting for our rights.
Injured workers are not sleeping at night
and we must wake up all injured workers around
injured workers are not sleeping
we are fighting for our lives
we are fighting for our rights.
(Poem by Constanza Duran, based on speech by Costas Parlanis)