A Journalist/3
When this conscience wakes And speaks out in thunder tones as it must It will need facts to use as a weapon Against injustice, barbarism and wrong It is for this reason that I carefully…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
What Some People Say
Dear Rob Figured you’d enjoy this Since You’re motley like me Getting my near worthless 1976 BMW 2002 fixed at the AutoHaus I was sitting in the waiting room going over my Yiddish vocab When…
The Typewriter Is Holy
Later this summer at Cafe Ventana, I’ll be facilitating a reading group of the new book, The Essential Ginsberg. I was just rereading Bill Morgan’s history, The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat…
Journalist/2
1. That is precisely what I have been trying to elicit all these years: Outrage, outrage, and offense at what Israel is making a million and a half immiserated people Living in the Strip endure….
halfway around the world the bombs are falling
On the dedication page of her 2007 updated collection of Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima states: The REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS are dedicated to Bob Dylan; and to my grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, friend of the great anarchist…
Dissidents
Glucksman says the role of the intellectual is to warn, to predict horrors, to be a Cassandra who tell us what is going on outside the walls of the city. I share this notion….I too…
The Way It Looked in 2004
Israeli historian Benny Morris: Remember another thing The Arab people gained a large slice of the planet Not thanks to its skills or its great virtues But because it conquered and murdered And forced those…
The Way It Looked in 1981 (The Arab Mind)
Anybody you catch outside his home First thing you beat him with a truncheon All over his body Except for his head Don’t have pity on anyone Don’t explain anything Beat first Then after You…
Elementary Maxims of U.S. American Satyagraha
Do not give in Do not give up Do not give out John Lewis
Remembering and Forgetting/2
French intellectual Françoise Vergès observed: “Europe’s colonial domination has been the subject of a profound forgetting. This forgetting should be seen as a system: it is vital, for instance, to place the history of slavery…