Vox Populi

A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 6,000,000 visitors since 2014 and over 9,000 archived posts.

George Yancy: Cornel West | We Must Keep Our Souls Intact as We Organize Under Trump Again

“Trump is American gangsterism crystallized, honest about itself, unashamed and bold,” says West.

December 4, 2024 · 12 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Staring Down Misogyny

What the election means for women (and the rest of us)

December 3, 2024 · 9 Comments

Dr. Liz Theohariss, Shaailly Gupta Barnes: How to Survive Trump—America’s Nero

Lives and livelihoods will be saved, if at all, from below, rather than on high. 

November 26, 2024 · 10 Comments

Daniel Hunter: 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won

It’s important we squarely face Trump’s victory and what there is to do about it. 

November 25, 2024 · 6 Comments

Nan Levinson: A Democracy of Voices (If We Can Keep It)

Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era

November 19, 2024 · 6 Comments

Mike Vargo and Eric Marchbein: Who Abandoned the Working Class?

This commentary on the election takes the form of a Q&A between two observers with firsthand knowledge of certain aspects. Freelance writer Mike Vargo grew up in a blue-collar family, … Continue reading

November 18, 2024 · 15 Comments

Madison Bannon: This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks

There is an African proverb: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

November 9, 2024 · 4 Comments

Marianne Dhenin: The Quiet Success of the Israel Divestment Movement

Grassroots efforts to divest local U.S. taxpayer dollars from Israel over its ongoing genocide of Palestinians are gaining steam.

October 17, 2024 · 6 Comments

Ruth Muskrat Bronson: Two Poems

If you could know the empty ache of loneliness,
Masked well behind the calm indifferent face
Of us who pass you by in studied hurriedness

October 14, 2024 · 8 Comments

Tena Thau: Unsanitize the genocide

In 1967, Martin Luther King was moved to break his silence over the Vietnam War (at a time when the war was still very popular among the American public), after seeing images in Ramparts magazine of Vietnamese children with napalm burns.

October 13, 2024 · 11 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

Paige Curtis: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What if we had systems that loved us and, by extension, the planet?”

October 5, 2024 · 5 Comments

Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.

September 23, 2024 · 11 Comments

Michael Simms: Banned!

Vox Populi is not alone in experiencing censorship from Facebook which has often been accused of blocking messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine. 

September 22, 2024 · 63 Comments

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