writting enacting social change

Does writing have the power to enact social change?
Every day there is a point where we interact with texts and gather information. Some do it for research or current events; others even do it for pleasure. What we as individuals gather from the texts vary. Great writers have the power to convey messages to their readers. Some pieces of literature help us grow as people and that leads me to my point that writing does have the power to enact social change.
In political pieces that deal with current events and issues, there is a lot of information for the reader to take in. There are also a lot of lessons to learn from them. People can not only take the facts from the writings, but they can take social pointers from it. In “The Bombing of Bagdad” by June Jordan, She writes a lot of the tragic things that happened with the Bombing of Bagdad. She discusses the horrible tragedy that it turned into, but she also shows the way it affected people personally. In part of her poem she writes, ‘“We fired them into Iraq, and I am not pleased, I am not very pleased, none of this fits into my notion of "things going very well."’ She is trying to convey a point to the readers that firing and war is necessary in the rebuttal against an opposing force; however it makes her unhappy. In my opinion she is trying to say that war is not the answer. When people read this they should try to oppose violence in their lives and reject war.
“The Bombing of Bagdad” along with many other writings shows this tribute to non violence. It conveys the message to readers that fighting is not the answer to all problems, but unfortunately is the way we in life solve some problems. This poem also showed that history repeats itself because we repeat the same mistakes, and the mistakes may include this violence. This shows the way that writing has the power to enact social change.