Solidaridad/3
It Was Love at First Haiku Maria told me to contact you When you were fresh back from El Salvador And perhaps needing another shoulder to lean on After re-entering this meshugah militarized greed culture…
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Solidaridad/2
What You Understand Depends on Where You Stand for Ellen Rehg Mev looked up to Ann ManganaroCo-founder of Karen Catholic Worker HouseSister of Loretto medical doctorCompañera to Father John Kavanaugh When Mev went to El…
Share the Wealth –The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, A Film by Juan Passarelli
Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as ‘enemies…
Share the Wealth with Mark Chmiel: Dear Love of Hedy
In this share, I plan on talking about one of the major threads of my recent “book” (published at my blog and on Facebook) Dear Love of Comrades, which I described to Rachel Sacks…
Share the Wealth with Magan Wiles: Decolonizing Tango
Three days after the video of George Floyd’s murder went viral, I saw a video on Facebook of my friend Jay standing at a busy intersection in LA, holding up a sign that said “where…
Share the Wealth with Elizabeth House: Stumbling Through the Writing Process Energized by Diet Pepsi and Peer Pressure
“You don’t know what you don’t know.” Elizabeth House was told this once while working in a facility where the residents were struggling with different areas of addiction. She learned in that experience, and many…
Share the Wealth with Lois Aceto: “Committed to Truth and Compelled to Justice”
My friend Lea Koesterer suggested her friend Lois for one of our evenings, so I am glad to pass along the following from Lea– Lois Aceto, a Racine Dominican Sister, is a seasoned social justice activist. Her…
Share the Wealth with Carol Mock–Beauty Draws the Eye: Daylilies and the Limits of Finitude
Carol Mock has been growing daylilies since 1996, when she wandered into a garden club sale at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The club was (and is) called the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. She purchased…
Share the Wealth with Rachel Dratnol: Finding “Something Good” in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
During this Share the Wealth, I will be sharing my experiences with writing “I See You” during the COVID-19 pandemic. I wrote the piece in the first few weeks of the pandemic as I was…
Share the Wealth with Matthew Miller: Rumi, Sufi Path of Love, and the Politics of “Mysticism”
Matthew Miller will lead us in a wide ranging discussion about Persian Sufi poetry. He will touch on the problems with many popular translations of Rumi and explore the “Sufi path of love” by introducing us to…