How do you prepare, state-side, for sound bombs? How do you prepare for beatings, tear gas? How do you role play that? How do you get yourself ready for sleep deprivation? How do you prepare…
Author of many books, most famously The Color Purple, Alice Walker is one of the most renowned writers who came of age during the 1960s in this country. Now in her early seventies, she continues to produce…
Dear Bella Levenshteyn Johnny Yau and I came up with the following “application form” After drinking a couple of beers the other night Maybe you’d be willing to see If you’re ready to go to…
Beneath all the proclamations about Arab terrorism And the ethical nobility of the Jewish state Expropriation by any means necessary Is the master narrative necessary To comprehend the history of Israel/Palestine And so we arrive…
I randomly picked up a book of interviews with Noam Chomsky off my shelf, and turned to a random page therein and found this, from 1983– There are a vast number of people who are…
Have you ever tried to email chicken soup?Diane di Prima The Poetry Deal—It’s only 109 pages. But Diane di Prima—poet, printer, feminist, Buddhist, anarchist, pacifist, cultural revolutionary— packs a lot of life into those pages….
Many of those demonstrating for noble causes are discourteous, vilify their opponents, and are often filled with hate. In practical terms, if you do not have the spirit of nonviolence, you create a strategic vulnerability:…
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To us a single act of injustice (Cheating in business, exploitation of the poor) Is slight To the prophets A disaster To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people To the prophets…
On Betty Lifton and Tom Fox, Children of Vietnam, 1972 The writer of children’s stories and a former IVS volunteer and journalist had to do something. So they compiled this Mev Puleo-ish book of stories and…