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Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)

We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.

October 8, 2024 · 5 Comments

Abriel Louise Young: Calling on Friends Across the Veil to Help Us Change History

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Have you succeeded in changing yourself to wine? If so, please report back.

October 7, 2024 · 5 Comments

Paul Christensen: Interpreting YouTube

YouTube is full of mini-documentaries on how other animals express love for one another, and remember the kindness paid to them by human beings after years of living in the wild.

October 2, 2024 · 8 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: America’s Natural Born Son

Is his name really Colt Gray? The name sounds like fiction. Glancingly, I looked at pictures and a white woman’s face comes into my mind with the age 53. A … Continue reading

September 30, 2024 · 6 Comments

Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.

September 29, 2024 · 4 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Tired as if we were dead and lived again and suffered all kinds of pains and died again and again every day, in this hell of life, as if this is it, forever, as if this genocide would never end, and as if death is the only way out!

September 16, 2024 · 20 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age

Passing the Torch while Broke

September 13, 2024 · 6 Comments

Alma Luz Villanueva: I Sleep with my Buck Knife

It all began with my full-blood Yaqui Indian grandmother, Mamacita, from Sonora, Mexico, who raised me in San Francisco.

September 7, 2024 · 12 Comments

Paul Christensen: At Sea on the Queen Mary Two

In the decks above, life was throbbing and squirming in anticipation of  some event that would never come. Or if it came, would be so gradual as to be uneventful. The sea told me that.

August 28, 2024 · 6 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Prison Reform Envisioned by a Convicted Felon

I’ve had a lot of things done to me in both jail and prison, but coddling was never one of them. Yet in the late 1980s and 1990s, I heard this word used continually to describe prisons

August 26, 2024 · 10 Comments

Jeff Cohen: Fired by MSNBC for Giving Voice to Iraq War Opposition, Phil Donahue (1935-2024) Was Courage Personified

The TV show host, who died Sunday at the age of 88, made his mark on our society. He fought for the underdog with style and grace and a sense of humor.

August 21, 2024 · 7 Comments

Mike Vargo: Getting Smart About Education

In each life, hovering behind the facade or maybe in plain sight, something important may await discovery, something that words can only approximate. 

August 11, 2024 · 3 Comments

RAMZY BAROUD: FOR THE LOVE OF GAZA

My hope grows stronger as I witness my people’s steadfastness in the face of genocide.

August 9, 2024 · 6 Comments

Alliyah Lusuegro: Mass Deportations Would Be a Nightmare

Mass deportations would tear millions of families apart, including mine. It would also be a moral, logistical, and economic disaster.

August 8, 2024 · 10 Comments

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