Category: Activists

Ripples of Influence

All living beings are members one of another so that a person’s every act has a beneficial or harmful influence on the whole world. We cannot see this, near-sighted as we are. The influence of…

Austere, Moral, Mythic, Ceremonial

Thursday 31 October 2013 Magan, A while back I read this collection, Sartre on Theater, and I noted especially the following passages from his lectures, interviews, and articles. I want to share them with you,…

U.S. Ruthlessness

The leaders of the United States of Amnesia prattle on about our love for democracy, human rights, the rule of law, etc. But Abbie Hoffman knew the truth… “No one who read the fine print of…

Insertion

Wherever you have refugees, you have vultures who feed off them. –Kuan Ying, quoted in Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman among the Boat People of Vietnam [101] Three worlds collide in this…

You’re the Beautiful Resistance

There’s something about your sharing with me Tears usually are the result Not sadness as in Ach But gratitude as in Ah I’ve known  you nine years plus So, of course, we inter-are Muriel Ruykeyser:…

The Daily Mail by Hedy Epstein

In those first years of the Nazi regime, it was hard for me to grasp the import of  politics writ large.  However, I would soon come face to face with discrimination on  a regular basis. …

Elvia Alvarado

Our Latin America Reading Group will discuss Elvia Alvarado’s testimony, Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo on Thursday 30 May at 7 p.m. at Café Ventana.   I imagine Elvia meeting up with Che And the revolutionary…

Norman Morrison

Now, maybe some U.S. citizens over 65 Remember the name “Norman Morrison” But many people in Vietnam of all ages Know that name The young Quaker immolated himself in 1965 Deliberately close to Robert McNamara’s…