Jose Padua: The National Anthem
I am writing this because my world is being made uninhabitable by assholes. I am standing still on a manhole cover that’s about to explode upward as the shoreline moves … Continue reading
Nika Knight: Filmmaker Faces 45 Years in Prison for Reporting on Dakota Access Protests
“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.” In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying … Continue reading
Video: Tashi and the Monk
. Eight years ago Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok, hand-picked by the Dalai Lama to share Tibetan Buddhism with the West, felt called to leave a life as a spiritual teacher … Continue reading
Jean Vanier: Becoming Human
Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. ― Every child, every … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
It is late as I write. 3 AM. This is when I feel them most keenly. The boys who didn’t come home from the war. You would think that such … Continue reading
Siegfried Sassoon: The Poet As Hero
You’ve heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you’ve asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness I’ve repented– My ecstasies changed to an ugly cry. You … Continue reading
Topher Sanders: “Only White People,” Said the Little Girl
Few things are more awesome than listening to kids playing on the playground. There’s magic in that mix of laughter and exhausted breaths — giggle, pant, giggle. Just the other … Continue reading
Margaret Walker: For My People
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees … Continue reading
Audio: Bob Dylan performs “The Times They Are A Changin'”
. Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to listen to the audio recording. . The Times They Are A Changin’ Come gather ’round people where ever … Continue reading
Nika Knight: ‘Hate Crime’ Video Shows Truck Plowing Into Indigenous Rights Rally
. People taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Reno, Nevada, for Indigenous Peoples Day and against the Dakota Access Pipeline were plowed down by an 18-year-old male driver in … Continue reading
Michael Gregory: Dust
After they came down the dust was everywhere eyes ears and mouths inside and outside pulverized matter through every opening afflicting exposed tissue —sometimes mechanically: blocking … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Trump’s War on Women — Republican Silence is Complicity
It is, without any doubt, a disgrace that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president. Among many other reasons, no nominee in America’s history has shown so much blatant … Continue reading
Elizabeth Gargano: Villanelle — Song of the MRI
Into the white tube, the silver coffin I shoot. The machine rumbles and creaks and in the floating distance, cathedral bells clang in a city of towers where rain falls … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Coca Cola is great as a cleaning fluid — Just don’t put it in your body
I’d like to buy the world a coke. Um, I don’t think so. Coca Cola does terrible things to your body. Medical experts tell us that soft drinks are major … Continue reading
