Let’s Not Wait Till We’re Dead
Over poetry, you didn’t gush. You read it. You read it with the tongue. You lived it. You felt how it moved you, changed you. How it contributed to giving your own life a form,…
Category: Activists
A Little Grace Lee Boggs Is in Order These Days
In the days ahead, everyone who loves this country enough to change it will have many opportunities both to reflect on and to practice the radical revolution in values that [Martin Luther] King projected and…
Dear Randa
6 September 2009 Dear Randa, Given how busy you must be, I can’t imagine that you would have brought along with you Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. I…
Long Live Gandhiji
Dear Carla, Tanya and I are working our way through Gandhi’s Essential Writings (in the Oxford World’s Classics). We read ten sections a week (there are 237 sections in the book). Here are the passages…
War Isn’t Over
Dear Laura Last night I was reading Frances Fitzgerald’s Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam This afternoon I listened to a playlist I made Of songs from the Vietnam War…
Trump Trumpets His Real Plans by Ralph Nader
I receive regular emails from Ralph Nader, and want to share today’s correspondence. He’s been fighting injustice and serving as a consumer advocate in this country for over fifty years. Even for a…
Four Truths and Ten Laws by Kazuaki Tanahashi
I have had many conversations with friends on what to do after the November election. The following may be of some value. Four Truths No situation is impossible to change. A communal vision, outstanding…
At Ben-Gurion Airport by Hedy Epstein
My travel companion Dianne and I left our new friends in the West Bank and arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday 29 January 2004 for our return trip to St. Louis. We thought that what…
The Real Crime of Cuba
The following comes from a 1990 discussion among U.S. and Canadian activists with Noam Chomsky. It may provide food for thought given the current focus on Cuba after the death of Fidel Castro. Look, the…
The Way It Looked in 1970 (Pessimism of the Intelligence, Optimism of the Will)
What can we do to affect the events that are to come? First, we must not make the mistake of placing trust in the government. The large upsurge of antiwar sentiment can be an effective…