Something’s Happening to Madeleine Weil
After hearing Cal speak Of his trips to Friendship Villages Madeline Weil started missing classes She’d rather read in the library Than go to Business Law classes She’d study the photos of the children She…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
The Affordable Care Act Won’t Help Me Here
Dear Doc I have three doctor specialist appointments– Cardiology, cardiology Hematology– In the next two weeks But there’s no doctor I can see about missing you –from novel-nearing-completion, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against…
She Should Have Won the National Book Award
But then I think What do these awards mean They gotta serve somebody I’ve checked the libraries It’s her only book On this—or any— subject Why should the luminaries and guardians honor her Which is…
Photographs of Hedy Epstein
Hedy Wachenheimer Evening Before Leaving Germany May 17, 1939 Hedy Epstein Speaking against Forced Deportations of Haitians, 1992 Hedy Leaving St. Louis to Join the Gaza Freedom Flotilla June 20, 2011 Hedy Epstein on Board…
What Would Gandhi Do
What would Gandhi do Under the B-52s? What would Desmond Tutu do If he’d been caught up with villagers in a search and destroy mission? What would HHDL do If an American soldier was looking…
Hey Soul Brother
Hey Soul Brother What are you doing here? Why are you killing us? Why aren’t you at home Fighting those who are killing you? Hey Soul Brother You got better things to do You ought…
Seeking Understanding of Ourselves, I Investigated the Germans
And was reminded: Heroes are rare. –from novel-in-process, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris
We Expect the Germans
To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was
We Expect the Germans
To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was
Hearts and Minds, Revisited by Mark Chmiel and Andrew Wimmer
This article was first published at Counterpunch, January 12, 2005. The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there. –Lyndon Johnson, on Vietnam There is…