Living in Belize City

Carolina and Tatiana have been participating in the Be in Love with Yr Life writing course from Belize City. I sent them my “It’s About” (on what Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine is about) which…

Just This

Your great-uncle who was connected to the KKK You righteous indignation at this Your bodhisattva compassion for him, for yourself Hold it all In this present moment –from novel-in-progress, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against…

Compromismo (Touching a Nerve)

On a summer day in 1944 My mother was herded from a cattle car Along with the rest of its human cargo Which had been transported from Belgrade To the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen She…

All Power To the Imagination

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….

Powerhouse

Carol Becherer Wright sent me this notecard in the mail, said it reminded her of our writing classes, and how they’ve “made me who I am.”   Notecard by Janice Scherer www.janicescherer.com

The Way It Looked in 2010

When we define the struggle against foreign rule as nonviolent or violent, it’s as if we have asked the occupied to prove their resistance is kosher (or not). And to whom? The very foreign rulers…

Gratitude/728

This weekend is commencement Each day is commencement Each hour is commencement I’ve known you Twenty months May I know you twenty years more What spirit you manifest! So many creative powers– Poetry, art, organizing…

A Strategic Vulnerability

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:…