Matthew J. Parker: You Be the Judge
Can sending a poor person to prison and fining him excessively also be construed as a violation of equal protection, especially when the rich can buy their voting rights back upon release?
Christine Rhein: Beware
The noise
of your neighbor starting up his blower,
his whirring just a giant lie.
Olivia Rosane: What a Leaked US Cable Says About Israel’s Looming Assault on Rafah
An invasion would have “catastrophic humanitarian consequences, including mass civilian casualties, extensive population displacement, and the collapse of the existing humanitarian response,” the cable warned. . An Israeli invasion of … Continue reading
Richard Krawiec: Looking at Gaza
In the Israeli siege of Gaza there are so many photos and videos of horror it’s difficult to keep track of them. Every day we see more and more atrocities on social media. We are overloaded with evidence of innocents being killed, maimed; neighborhoods left in rubble.
Chard deNiord: Grief is the River with a Foreign Name
Grief is the river with a foreign name
that floods your heart, pulling you in
with a musical force you can’t resist
Brett Wilkins: Children Dying of Starvation, Dehydration in Gaza Hospitals
The international community is facing a moral and humanitarian test to stop the genocide in Gaza,” said a Gaza Health Ministry official.
Ann Wright: Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.
Nina Padolf: Labels Do Not Define You
For first grade, I had to take a bus to a school designed for children with disabilities. I no longer attended my neighborhood school, instead, I was placed in a room with all the boys.
Arlene Weiner: Only One Dead
Our son
in Tucson warned us we’d read
about a professor killed in his office,
shot by a former student.
Rebecca Gordon: Banning What Matters
Public Libraries Under MAGA Threat
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior
Far from the haunts of men away
For here, there are no sordid fears,
No crimes, no misery, no tears
No pride of wealth; the heart to fill,
No laws to treat my people ill.
Abby Zimet: Get Out, You Animals, Get Out | We Are Humans, Starved
The grotesque madness of history’s first live-streamed genocide persists as Israel daily commits acts once unimaginable.
John Guzlowski: Four Poems
My mother never thought she’d survive
that first winter in the slave labor camps.
Gary Fincke: The Chernobyl Swallows
In April, near the anniversary Of catastrophe, barn swallows returned, Flying inside the exclusion zone to Nest in the radioactive ruins. Like disciples, the swaddled scientists Marveled. The work crews, … Continue reading
