Video: While I Yet Live
Five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together.
Dawn Potter: Canto
The season was autumn. Threads of smoke
unwound from the chimneys. Every compass pointed
toward winter.
Akashinga “The Brave Ones”: Nature Protected by Women
A growing body of evidence suggests that empowering women is the single biggest force for positive change in the world today.
Philip Terman: Night of the Broken Glass| Image ID 0115766
A soul similar to glass, hard
And brittle, transparent or
Translucent, vulnerable,
Easily cracked…
Sylvia Taschka: Trump’s America shines bright for Europe’s radical New Right
Trump has helped make the New Right’s way of looking at things much more politically and socially acceptable – in a way none of its members had likely dared to dream before the election of November 2016.
Jennifer Stitt: For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind
In the 1940s, Rachel Carson began developing an ethic of wonder that stood at the centre of her ecological philosophy.
Kristofer Collins: A Poem for Michael Wurster
The only connection I felt to the mills
was to the children of a generation of flayed men
on unemployment, the storefronts boarded…
Nick Turse: Castle Black
The United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet.
Elizabeth Romero: So, Mr Death
So many I’ve lost; I see them
Down a long corridor the door open
To a bright snowy day.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: We Stand in Solidarity with Rojava, an Example to the World
Since 2012, around 5 million people – Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmen, Yazidis and others – have built the autonomous region of Rojava, demonstrating how a multi-ethnic society can respectfully coexist beyond the constraints of nation state, patriarchy and capitalism.
Doug Anderson: Landays
Now I have given away all my rage.
Watch the young stride ahead of me into their own mistakes.
Tim Radford: Waste plastic can find a useful new life
Swedish scientists say they have found a way to recycle plastic perfectly: their new process can turn any waste plastic back into new plastic of identical quality – and recover all of it.
Arlene Weiner: November
He tears off summer’s dress,
exposes trunk and limb, threatens
worse coming. Yet he brings gifts…
Video: Leonard Cohen — Happens to the Heart
“Happens To The Heart” is the first official single from the folk legend’s last original and unreleased album, Thanks For The Dance, which has been reimagined for film by award-winning director Daniel Askill.
